Team Lead, Field Engineer
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Who We Are</strong></span></p> <p>Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,500 firms in 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $10 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and levels of complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, São Paulo, London, Edinburgh, Geneva, Warsaw, Dubai, Pune and Singapore.</p></div><h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></h4> <p>As a Field Engineer, Team Lead you will serve as a player-coach — guiding a team of field engineers while personally executing the most complex, mission-critical technical work yourself. Operating at the intersection of engineering and client success, you are both the technical anchor for your team and Addepar's technical vanguard in the field, translating complex business requirements into production-grade integrations, automations, and data solutions.</p> <p>You will be the technical expert across Addepar's full solution suite — from API integrations and automation frameworks to advanced data platforms (including our white-labeled Databricks offering, ADX) and AI-driven tooling. At the same time, you will develop your people-management skills: providing daily guidance, coordinating work allocation, and turning the vision set by leadership into reality while keeping your team aligned to our core processes. This role combines a forward-deployed delivery model with hands-on technical depth and functional leadership of a high-performing engineering team.</p> <p>Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where this role is based on the first day of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.<br><br><strong>Important Note: This role will require you to work from Pune office 3 days a week in UK shift i.e. 2:30 PM to 11:30 PM IST. (hybrid role)</strong></p> <h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></h4> <ul> <li>Serve as a player-coach: provide functional leadership and daily operational guidance to a team of field engineers while remaining a hands-on technical contributor on the most complex engagements</li> <li>Architect, build, and deliver custom integrations, automations, and data pipelines using Addepar's APIs, ADX (Databricks), and modern engineering tools</li> <li>Manage the team's work allocation and coordinate activities across simultaneous client engagements, ensuring results are delivered on schedule and in collaboration with cross-functional partners</li> <li>Guide the team through issue resolution, proactively escalate blockers, and maintain alignment with client and internal stakeholders</li> <li>Design and implement production-grade solutions that dramatically improve client onboarding efficiency, reduce time-to-value, and enable operational scale</li> <li>Build intelligent automation leveraging AI, LLMs, and machine learning to solve complex data transformation, validation, and reconciliation challenges</li> <li>Serve as the technical owner for ADX implementations, designing robust data infrastructure within Databricks to streamline client data onboarding and analytics</li> <li>Write and review production-quality Python code for ETL p