Lead Data Engineer
Inizio Partners
About the job Lead Data Engineer
Lead Data Engineer (Los Angeles, CA)
- Experience: 9-12 years
- Strong data engineering background
- Databricks is a must, along with experience in data modeling, building pipelines, orchestration, and supporting reporting teams
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to gather requirements, structure solutions, and ensure high-quality, timely delivery.
- Experience working in the Databricks tech stack with strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark
- Design and optimize data models, data marts, and Lakehouse/warehouse layers with strong focus on medallion architecture, query optimization, and performance engineering.
- Build, orchestrate, and monitor scalable data pipelines on Databricks, ensuring reliable ingestion, transformation, CDC handling, and incremental load strategies.
- Manage end-to-end pipeline operations including performance tuning, data quality monitoring, alerting, and issue resolution across production workloads.
- Lead a project team of data engineers supporting multiple workstreams and provide technical leadership through code reviews, best-practice guidance, reusable pattern creation, and mentorship to engineering team members.
- Prepare and maintain project documentation to support project execution and delivery.
- 50% Technical - Data modeling, hands-on coding, orchestration, and pipeline monitoring.
- 50% Management- Client Collaboration, requirements gathering, designing technical solutions, presentations, global team management and mentoring.
- 8-12 years' experience in data engineering and analytics roles
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in analytics, computer science/engineering, economics, mathematics, or related areas.
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and dimensional data modeling
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or similar
- Experience working with cloud data platforms or modern data infrastructure
- Entrepreneurial hands-on approach to work. Demonstrated leadership ability and willingness to take initiative
- Superior analytical and problem solving skills
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
- Effective time management and attention to detail
- Hands on experience in using SQL, Python and Workflow Schedulers (Apache Airflow, Cron)
- Experience in leading team and coordinating with internal / external stakeholders
- Experience in using Cloud Platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure)
- Experience in using Visualization tools (Tableau / Power BI)
- Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Spark, etc.)
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