Data Engineering Lead

Job Description

Data Engineering Lead

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Location: 100% Remote – US

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Level: Senior / Lead

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The Opportunity

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We’re looking for a senior-level Data Engineering leader to take ownership of complex data engineering initiatives and help shape a scalable, reliable data platform.

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This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving difficult data problems, improving engineering standards, and mentoring other engineers while remaining close to the technology.

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What You’ll Do

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• Provide technical leadership across data engineering, including architecture, engineering standards, code quality, and technical problem-solving.
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• Design and build scalable ELT pipelines supporting data products and analytics.
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• Own data modeling, transformations, and integration of new data sources.
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• Partner closely with engineering, product, analytics, and customer-facing teams to resolve complex data and platform issues.
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• Lead initiatives from technical design and planning through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
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• Improve platform reliability, scalability, automation, observability, and overall engineering efficiency.
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• Establish and promote best practices around data engineering productivity, quality, and maintainability.
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• Contribute to technical strategy and the ongoing evolution of the data platform.
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• Mentor and support a team of data engineers, helping raise technical capability and engineering standards.
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What You Bring

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• Expert-level SQL skills.
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• Strong Python experience within data engineering or ELT environments.
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• Strong understanding of data modeling and large-scale data transformation.
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• Experience designing and managing data ingestion pipelines across multiple data sources.
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• Hands-on experience with Airflow or a comparable orchestration framework .
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• Strong Linux/Unix experience.
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• Experience working with large datasets and inconsistent or complex data quality.
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• Previous experience leading or managing a technical team of approximately 3–5 engineers .
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• Strong ability to operate at both architectural and hands-on implementation levels.
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Nice to Have

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• Experience with dbt .
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• Exposure to Astronomer, Dagster , or similar workflow orchestration technologies.
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• PostgreSQL experience.
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• Experience with MPP / distributed database architectures .
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• Healthcare or similarly complex data environments.
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• Experience working across multiple database technologies.
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Why This Role?

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This is an opportunity to have meaningful technical ownership over a growing data platform, influence engineering standards, and make an impact across both architecture and day-to-day delivery—all while working remotely within the US.