Data Team Lead

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States. 3 Days on site per week, 2 days working from home

Salary/Contact Rate: Up to $155,000 PA + up to 15% Bonus

Our client is seeking a skilled Data Team Lead to join their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a rapidly expanding company in the US, driving the growth in the Data Engineering and Data Analytics and Reporting team.

• Building, leading, and growing a new Data Engineering and Data Analytics and Reporting team from the ground up in the US, expanding into Colombia over time.
• Collaborating with multi-location and global teams while navigating cultural and operational differences.
• Integrating AI solutions within data teams, both to accelerate build cycles and deliver innovative business capabilities.
• Delivering robust data solutions such as data lake, data warehouse, reporting, and analytics.
• Designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable, high-quality data solutions
• Championing a strong self-service data culture, empowering business teams with the tools, data, and insights they need to drive agility and informed decision-making.
• Managing key stakeholders, aligning business needs with technical solutions and ensuring clear, proactive communication.
• Ensuring ongoing compliance with data governance, security, and privacy standards.
• Evaluating, adopting, and integrating AI capabilities both to accelerate development and to deliver innovative solutions to business teams.

• Technical expertise in Google Big Query, such as data lake and data warehouse, SQL for complex transformations, and Kafka for scalable data ingestion pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with one or more advanced visualization tools, Power
  
  BI and Looker preferred.
• Strong programming skills and comfort with modern data engineering workflows in cloud environments.
• Proven experience in an agile, startup-like environment, balancing the need for speed with uncompromising quality and compliance.
• Demonstrated success in setting up and scaling high-performing data teams from scratch.
• Strong advocate for self-service and enablement, with experience providing business teams with the necessary data tools and information to become more agile and data driven.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills; able to translate business requirements into technical delivery and communicate effectively across levels.
• Deep understanding of data security, compliance, and privacy requirements.
• A passion for coaching and mentoring, developing talent, and fostering a pragmatic, delivery-focused culture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.

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