Lead Data Engineer, Cloud Data & Analytics

About the Role We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud native data infrastructure and pipelines that power analytics, reporting, and AI/ML initiatives. You will take technical ownership of our data platform, including architecture, ingestion, warehousing, and performance, with a strong emphasis on AWS and Snowflake, while mentoring engineers and partnering closely with analytics and platform teams.

What You Will Do

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable ELT/ETL pipelines integrating data from many disparate sources into a centralized cloud data warehouse
• Design and optimize Snowflake schemas, warehouses, and query performance, driving down processing times and controlling compute costs
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (compute, storage, orchestration, and managed data/ML services) in partnership with cloud engineering
• Lead data pipeline orchestration using modern tooling (dbt, Airflow, Glue, or similar) to reliably feed dashboards, reports, and downstream applications
• Establish and enforce data quality, security, and governance standards, including periodic audits of cloud data environments
• Design and deploy data driven applications and pipelines in support of business and analytics use cases
• Set up and maintain shared data environments (containerized data science/dev environments) supporting many concurrent users
• Provide technical leadership across the data engineering function: setting standards, reviewing designs, and mentoring engineers

Required qualifications

What You Will Bring

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying data engineering pipelines and platforms
• Deep hands on expertise with Snowflake and strong SQL skills across relational and cloud data warehouses
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services for data engineering (compute, storage, orchestration, and managed services)
• Proficiency in Python for pipeline development and automation
• Experience with modern ETL/ELT and orchestration tooling (dbt, Airflow, Glue, or similar)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) for data environments
• Experience with BI/analytics platforms (Tableau, Power BI)
• Ability to design and support lightweight APIs/services for data delivery
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI/ML tooling and workflows, including LLM based applications
• Relevant cloud or data engineering certifications
• Prior consulting or client facing delivery experience across multiple industries

Skills

AI/ML SQL Tableau ETL/ELT AWS Power BI Docker Kubernetes Python

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