Lead Data Engineer; Hybrid
Listed on 2026-01-01
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Engineering
Data Engineer -
IT/Tech
Data Engineer
Resp & Qualifications
PURPOSE: The Lead Data Engineer is responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining and scaling cloud or on-premise infrastructure targeting big data and platform data management (Relational and No
SQL, distributed and converged) with emphasis on reliability, automation and performance. This role will focus on leading the development of solutions and helping transform the company's platforms to deliver data‑driven, meaningful insights and value to the company.
- Lead the team to design, configure, implement, monitor, and manage all aspects of the Data Integration Framework. Define and develop the Data Integration best practices for the data management environment of optimal performance and reliability.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure systems (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes) including data access APIs. Prepare and manipulate data using Hadoop or equivalent Map Reduce platforms.
- Provide detailed guidance and perform work related to Modeling Data Warehouse solutions in the cloud or on‑premise. Understand Dimensional Modeling, De‑normalized Data Structures, OLAP, and Data Warehousing concepts.
- Oversee the delivery of engineering data initiatives and projects. Support long‑term data initiatives as well as ad‑hoc analysis and ELT/ETL activities. Create data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data and apply data extraction, transformation and loading techniques to connect large data sets from a variety of sources.
- Enforce the implementation of best practices for data auditing, scalability, reliability and application performance. Develop and apply data extraction, transformation and loading techniques to connect large data sets from a variety of sources.
- Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques, and provide ongoing reports. Execute quantitative analyses that translate data into actionable insights. Provide analytical and data‑driven decision‑making support for key projects. Design, manage, and conduct quality‑control procedures for data sets using data from multiple systems.
- Improve data delivery engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state‑of‑the‑art practices; participating in professional societies.
Position does not have direct reports but is expected to assist in guiding and mentoring less experienced staff. May lead a team of matrixed resources.
QUALIFICATIONSEducation Level:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree an additional 4 years of relevant work experience are required beyond the required work experience.
Experience:
8 years experience in leading data engineering and cross‑functional teams to implement scalable and fine‑tuned ETL/ELT solutions for optimal performance. Experience developing and updating ETL/ELT scripts. Hands‑on experience with application development, relational database layout, development, data modeling.
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities
(KSAs):
- Knowledge and understanding of at least one programming language (i.e., SQL, No
SQL, Python). - Knowledge and understanding of database design and implementation concepts.
- Knowledge and understanding of data exchange formats.
- Knowledge and understanding of data movement concepts.
- Strong technical and analytical and problem‑solving skills to troubleshoot and solve a variety of problems.
- Requires strong organizational and communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to handle multiple priorities.
- Able to effectively provide direction to and lead technical teams.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
$113,616 - $225,654
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