Lead Data Engineer

Position: Lead Data Engineer - United States
Location(s):
Atlanta, Georgia Company:
Georgia-Pacific Career Field:
Information Systems & Technology Job Number: 191597

Apply:  Job As a Lead Data Platform Engineer on the Georgia Pacific Data Platform team, you will help deliver trusted, high-quality data across hundreds of systems and thousands of data assets. You will own, deliver, operate, and help architect the Enterprise Data Lake, Ingestion Framework, and Databricks Platform while partnering with Data Governance, Data Delivery, Product Owners, and Solution Architects to keep the platform reliable, scalable, governed, and aligned with business needs.

This role is based in our Atlanta, GA HQ office located on Peachtree St. This role is a hybrid-based role.

Our Team The Georgia Pacific Data Platform team builds, manages, & operates centralized products that support Georgia Pacific’s Business Units and IT. These products enable data to be ingested, stored, processed, governed, managed, presented, and consumed consistently across the enterprise.

What You Will Do Lead and optimize the GP data platform (Enterprise Data Lake, Ingestion Framework, Databricks), ensuring reliability, integrity, and cost efficiency data and data infrastructure

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features, maintain a healthy agile process, and enhance platform accessibility for customers

Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through performance monitoring, issue resolution, and development of self-service tools

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems

Experience serving as a senior technical leader overseeing multiple data engineering teams

Experience in architectural design and systems integration for multi-stakeholder, enterprise-grade platforms

Experience leading operations for highly available data platforms and data lakes

Demonstrated experience in data infrastructure, including proficiency with Infrastructure as Code practices and skilled in GIT and CI/CD design patterns

What Will Put You Ahead Delivered innovative, scalable data solutions using Python, SQL, Spark, and Delta Lake, while optimizing data accessibility with open table formats (Delta, Hudi, Iceberg)
Enhanced system efficiency and reliability by leveraging Terraform, Git/CI-CD workflows, and DAG tools (Airflow, Step Functions, Databricks Declarative Pipelines)
Implemented and optimized the Databricks Data Platform and AWS services (Lambda, Glue, Event Bridge, ECS, Kafka, etc.) to support business objectives

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Who We Are As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make…