AI Lead Data Engineer; No GC''s

CW – Lead Data Engineer (T4I Data Team)

Location:

Mountain View, CA / Dallas, TX

Onsite 3 days office

This is a mandatory requirement. It is not sufficient for these skills to simply appear on the resume; they must be backed by hands‑on, project‑level experience. The candidate must have proven hands‑on experience with AI tools, semantic layer development, and AWS. Candidates whose experience is primarily with Azure will not be considered.

T4I’s data team builds and operates the data marts and pipelines that power HR/Workforce reporting and analytics. We’re looking for a hands‑on Data Engineer who can operate independently. High‑visibility, high‑ownership role at the center of T4I’s HR data platform with direct exposure to AI initiatives, cross‑functional stakeholders, and the chance to meaningfully reduce day‑to‑day operational load for the team.

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot Spark/EMR ETL pipelines feeding HR and Workforce data marts.
• Monitor and remediate Data Asset Score issues (data quality rules, governance/PII‑minimization actions) to keep HR data assets compliant ahead of deadlines.
• Be the daily coordination point between US HR business stakeholders, the IDC (India) engineering team, and platform/infra teams – translating requirements, unblocking IDC, and reporting status.
• Triage and resolve Jira tickets/bugs raised against HR data mart pipelines; write clear runbooks and pipeline documentation.
• Build semantic layers and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Integrate REST and/or GraphQL APIs into data workflows.
• Operate with minimal oversight: escalating only true blockers and proactively flag risks before they become incidents.

8+ years in Data Engineering, with strong hands‑on Spark (PySpark/Scala), SQL, and Python.

• Experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS EMR/S3, Databricks, or equivalent); workflow orchestration (Airflow or similar).
• Comfortable owning pipeline operations end‑to‑end: reading dependency graphs, diagnosing failures, working with on‑call /Pager Duty/Splunk, and driving fixes with multiple teams.
• Working knowledge of data warehousing/data mart design, data governance, and PII handling practices.
• AI‑native mindset: familiarity with LLM capabilities, evaluation frameworks, and the creative application of AI principles to engineering challenges.
• Proficiency with GenAI productivity tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Codex) to enhance engineering workflows.
• Strong communicator; comfortable directing an offshore IDC team with minimal hand holding.