Lead Platform Data Engineer

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

Lead Platform Data Engineer

As a Lead Platform Data Engineer, you will own the data architecture that connects product applications across the full customer lifecycle - from specification and ordering through device provisioning, installation, and ongoing usage. This is a technical leadership role that bridges platform engineering and data engineering: you'll define the entity relationships, data contracts, and semantic models that allow disparate systems to share a common language, while mentoring engineers and driving adoption of data standards across teams.

You'll operate with significant autonomy on ambiguous, cross-functional problems - working across organizational boundaries to align teams on shared identifiers, event schemas, and integration patterns. The role requires both architectural vision and the ability to influence stakeholders who don't report to you.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

What You Will Do:

Data Architecture & Strategy

• Foundation Building: Establish and document the organization's first comprehensive data topology and inventory, transforming undocumented legacy flows into a structured, scalable platform blueprint.
• Unified Modeling: Architect cross-application data models and Data Contracts (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI) to standardize identity layers and ensure consistency across the product lifecycle.
• AI-Ready Infrastructure: Design high-performance data flows and transformation layers that surface usage analytics and recurring revenue signals to drive AI-powered insight generation.

Platform Engineering & Integration

• System Interoperability: Lead the integration of platform service layers with mobile/web applications to streamline device commissioning and cross-functional data access.
• Modern Orchestration: Replace ad-hoc processes with robust workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, dbt) and CI/CD pipelines to ensure 99.9% data reliability and "Data-as-Code" standards.
• Strategic Planning: Drive the technical proposal process, conducting cost-benefit analyses for new systems to balance immediate delivery with long-term platform health.

Governance & Engineering Excellence

• Observability & Trust: Implement automated data quality monitoring, lineage tracking, and observability practices to ensure high-fidelity data for downstream analytics and compliance.
• Security & Privacy: Engineer data lifecycle policies that strictly adhere to global privacy regulations (GDPR/CCPA) and enterprise security standards.
• Technical Mentorship: Establish and enforce rigorous coding standards and peer review processes, mentoring the team to transition from "plumbing" to modern DataOps practices.

Technical Skills

• Expert Data Modeling: Proficiency in designing relational, NoSQL, and Lakehouse architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery). Mastery of SQL is non-negotiable.
• Modern Languages: Advanced Python and/or Go/Java for building scalable data applications and custom integrations.
• Orchestration & Transformation: Expert-level experience with dbt and related tools to build repeatable, documented workflows.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code. (Terraform/CloudFormation) and core cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Governance & Quality: Experience implementing Data Contracts, schema registries, and observability tools.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related quantitative field. Master's Degree in a technical field preferred.
• 7+ Years in Data Engineering: With at least 2+ years in a Lead or Staff capacity, specifically owning the technical roadmap.
• "Ground-to-Cloud" Experience: A proven track record of entering environments with high technical debt/minimal documentation and successfully implementing a formal data strategy and topology.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience working directly with Product and Executive teams to translate business questions into technical data requirements.
• AI/ML Integration: Previous experience building feature stores or pipelines specifically designed to feed AI/ML models or LLMs.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there's plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, "this is your business, run with it".
• You're looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.
• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!
• You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the second year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.

What You 'll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you "be safe, be healthy".
• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can "serve others, not yourself"
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths testing and coaching

Compensation: This range is provided by Allegion. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

• The expected Base Salary Range: $131,400 - $205,000. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
• Bonus Eligible: Yes

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow's world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

We Celebrate Who We Are!

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we're required to, but because it's the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.