Lead Data Engineer
$90 - $100 per hourStrategic Staffing Solutions
Job Description Job Title: Lead Data Engineer Location: Charlotte, NC Duration: 12 months Pay Rate: $90 - $100/HR (W2 Only) Job/Role Description:
- Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of enterprise-scale data engineering solutions across AWS cloud environments.
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable, resilient data pipelines, ETL processes, data ingestion frameworks, and orchestration workflows.
- Architect and oversee enterprise data lake and data warehouse solutions using AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, S3, and related AWS technologies.
- Collaborate with Lead Developers, Data Scientists, Architects, Product Owners, and business stakeholders to define technical strategy and scalable data solutions.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, engineering oversight, code reviews, and mentorship to Data Engineers and development teams.
- Drive architectural decisions in partnership with Data and Solution Architects to ensure scalability, security, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Design and support Kafka-based streaming and event-driven data architectures, preferably using Confluent Kafka.
- Develop distributed data processing solutions using Python, PySpark, AWS EMR, and other cloud-native technologies.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices for data modeling, ETL frameworks, pipeline reliability, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
- Lead end-to-end solution delivery while ensuring alignment with business requirements, enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and regulatory requirements.
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform across multiple AWS accounts and environments.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD frameworks using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Oversee production support and operational management of AWS-based data platforms, including root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Champion data governance, metadata management, data quality, observability, and data stewardship practices across platforms and teams.
- Identify opportunities to modernize data architecture and improve operational efficiency through automation and cloud-native technologies.
- Support the development of AI-ready data pipelines and machine learning workflows, including feature engineering and MLOps.
- Design data solutions capable of supporting Generative AI applications, intelligent search, RAG architectures, LLMs, and vector databases.
- Drive technical decision-making and clearly communicate complex data architecture concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- 8+ years of Data Engineering experience, including at least 5+ years of extensive experience working within AWS environments.
- Expert-level experience with AWS services including S3, EMR, Glue Jobs, Lambda, Athena, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, and Step Functions.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data lakes and data warehouses using AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Athena.
- Advanced Python development experience with extensive hands-on use of PySpark.
- Advanced SQL expertise, including query optimization, large-scale data processing, and enterprise data warehousing.
- Strong data modeling experience, including dimensional modeling, Data Vault, and other enterprise data modeling techniques.
- Deep experience designing, developing, and optimizing scalable and resilient data pipelines within AWS environments.
- Strong experience with distributed data processing frameworks, particularly PySpark and AWS EMR.
- Extensive knowledge of database management, performance tuning, and data architecture best practices.
- Experience with Kafka-based streaming architectures, preferably Confluent Kafka.
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD frameworks using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Deep knowledge of AWS IAM roles, policies, governance, security controls, and cloud security best practices.
- Strong experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as AWS Step Functions, Apache Airflow, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience leading cloud migration, modernization, or enterprise data platform initiatives.
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality frameworks, observability, resiliency, and operational supportability.
- Experience creating AI applications using AWS Bedrock.
- Experience building AI-ready data pipelines and ML workflows, including feature engineering and MLOps.
- Knowledge of Generative AI technologies, LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and vector databases.
- Experience working with cloud-based AI and data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Databricks.
- Ability to lead hands-on development efforts while providing technical direction, engineering oversight, and code reviews across multiple initiatives.
- Experience establishing cloud development environments, infrastructure standards, security controls, and migration strategies across multiple accounts and environments.
- Proven ability to identify data gaps, develop strategic remediation plans, and implement scalable automation solutions.
- Experience designing highly reliable data pipelines with a strong emphasis on data quality, observability, resiliency, and operational support
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