Delivery Lead

Delivery Lead

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Job Title: Delivery Lead

Location: NJ / Charlotte / Atlanta (onsite hybrid)

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and drive the delivery of end-to-end projects focused on analytical applications and ETL projects.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineering teams, guiding them on complex challenges and best practices.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, and manage project deliverables.
• Utilize frameworks like Snowflake, Spark, and AWS Glue to design, deploy, and integrate cutting-edge data solutions.
• Manage cross-functional collaboration with Business Data Analysts (BDAs), ensuring alignment between data engineering and business goals.
• Take ownership of release planning, change management, and stakeholder engagement to ensure project success.
• Ensure adherence to Agile practices, facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery timelines.

Technical Expertise:

• Framework and Foundational Services: Expertise in building modular, scalable, and reusable frameworks for data integration, data quality validation, and pipeline orchestration.
• ETL Projects: Hands-on experience with ETL processes, data migration, and data mart implementation.
• Data Engineering: Strong background in Snowflake, SQL, DBT, and PySpark, with advanced knowledge of query optimization, CDC (Change Data Capture), and data transformation.
• Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with AWS (Glue, EMR, S3, Lambda, Redshift), Azure Data Factory, and cloud-native architectures.
• Application Development: Expertise in developing event-driven and microservices-based architectures using Java, Python, and modern frameworks.
• CI/CD & Automation: Proficient in building CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code automation.
• Big Data & Analytics: Proven experience in managing Big Data platforms and implementing solutions for large-scale data ingestion, storage, and processing.
• Security & Compliance: Implementation of security best practices, including OWASP guidelines, RBAC, and vulnerability detection/remediation.

Must Have:

• Proven experience in building scalable data engineering frameworks and foundational services to support enterprise-wide analytics initiatives.
• Hands-on expertise in Snowflake, Spark, and AWS Glue, with knowledge of event-driven architectures and streaming data solutions.
• Strong leadership experience in managing teams and delivering complex projects in Agile environments.
• Proficiency in ETL processes, data migration, and data mart implementation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate across diverse teams.
• Experience in the insurance industry is a plus.