Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data EngineerJoin our team to help create and develop the future of live entertainment and sports in Orange County!The annual base salary range for this position in California is $140,000 to $180,000 per year. The starting pay for the successful candidate depends on various job-related factors, including but not limited to the candidate's geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, education/training, internal value, peer equity, external market demands, and organizational considerations.The Lead Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and governing a reliable data warehouse architecture that unifies key business data across ticketing, loyalty, and F&B systems. This role owns critical data engineering standards, identity resolution, Azure environment governance, and production-grade pipeline development while partnering with business and technical stakeholders to deliver trusted data products that support analytics, operations, and decision-making.ResponsibilitiesDesign and build a governed data warehouse architecture that unifies ticketing, loyalty, and F&B data into a single trusted source of truthOwn identity resolution end-to-end, including defining the entity framework, setting coverage standards, and expanding capabilities as new source systems are onboardedGovern the Azure data environment, including monitoring, alerting, cost controls, and consolidation into a single reliable warehouseServe as the internal technical counterpart to the implementation partner by auditing the existing platform, evaluating architectural decisions, and driving toward full internal ownershipTranslate complex data architecture decisions for non-technical business partners and collaborate with analytics and operations teams to deliver data products that drive business decisionsMentor engineers and help build a culture of technical rigor while remaining hands-on as a builderQualifications6–9 years of hands-on data engineering experience designing and building production-grade systemsAcademic background in a quantitative or technical field such as physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or a related fieldProduction-grade pipeline development experience in Python and advanced SQL, with strong attention to performance, observability, and maintainabilityProduction experience with dbt, including project structure, robust test coverage, and development of reliable transformation layers that support downstream reporting and analyticsProduction experience with Airflow or equivalent tools, such as Dagster or Prefect, including DAG design, dependency management, and failure handling at scaleDeep cloud data warehouse experience; Azure preferred, with strong AWS or GCP experience transferableExperience building or enforcing medallion architecture in a production environmentExperience inheriting or auditing an externally managed platform, including reviewing unfamiliar codebases and independently evaluating architectural decisionsExperience owning engineering standards, including code review, pipeline governance, and documentation practicesAI-native mindset, with experience using AI-assisted tools as a productivity multiplierEducation - Bachelor's DegreeExperience Required – 6+ YearsThis position is on-site.Company: OC Sports & Entertainment, LLCOur Commitment:We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws. We are firm believers that diversity and inclusion among our team members are critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.Thanks for your interest in becoming part of OCVIBE!