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Senior Data Engineer

$100k - $120k

KDS Strategic Search Group

As a Lead Data Engineer , you'll help shape the future of our cloud data platform by solving complex engineering challenges and building scalable solutions that drive business value. Title: Lead Data Engineer Location: 100% remote - Occasional Travel (Approximately 5%) Company Benefits: Exceptional benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and other insurance coverage. Compensation Range $100-120k + 5k bonus About the Opportunity We're looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to own and evolve our modern cloud data platform. You'll be the technical owner of our cloud data engineering platform, responsible for designing scalable data solutions, establishing engineering standards, ensuring data quality, and helping shape the long-term direction of our modern data architecture. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys building rather than maintaining. You'll have significant ownership over architecture, cloud data engineering, governance, and engineering best practices while partnering with business leaders to deliver trusted, scalable data solutions that drive better business decisions. You will: Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data pipelines and data warehouse solutions. Develop and support modern multi-layered data architectures (Bronze, Silver, and Gold). Build robust ELT pipelines that integrate data from multiple enterprise systems. Develop high-performance data models that support analytics and reporting. Establish engineering standards, version control, testing, and deployment best practices. Implement data quality validation, monitoring, and pipeline reliability processes. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions. Evaluate new technologies and contribute to the long-term strategy for the data platform. Provide technical leadership and mentor other members of the data engineering team. You should have the following: 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience. Experience building, implementing, or owning a governed cloud data warehouse. Strong SQL and Python development skills. Experience with cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Synapse, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar. Experience designing modern ELT pipelines and dimensional data models. Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, security, and data quality. Experience implementing automated testing, monitoring, and deployment practices. A high level of ownership, accountability, and the ability to lead technical initiatives from design through implementation. Preferred Experience Experience selecting or evaluating cloud data platforms or related technologies. Experience building enterprise data platforms from the ground up. Experience establishing engineering standards and development best practices.Experience supporting business intelligence and analytics initiatives. #J-18808-Ljbffr KDS Strategic Search Group

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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