Cloud Data Platform Lead Engineer

Qcells North America; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Qcells North America is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect, build, and lead scalable, cloud-based data platforms enabling enterprise analytics and reporting. This role will own ETL/ELT frameworks using Azure data services and drive robust data models within a Lakehouse architecture, collaborating with architects, analysts, and business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings deep SQL and Python expertise, extensive experience with distributed data platforms, and strong knowledge of data

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture.
• Experience leading large-scale data platform initiatives in cloud environments.
• Advanced SQL and Python proficiency; Spark or distributed processing.
• Experience with Azure data services and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong data governance and metadata management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines for ingestion and analytics.
• Architect and implement ETL/ELT frameworks using Azure Fabric or similar platforms.
• Oversee data integrations from ERP, CRM, internal systems, APIs and third-party sources.
• Design and govern scalable data models for analytics and operational needs.
• Collaborate with Data Architects to implement Lakehouse patterns and Delta Lake strategies.
• Establish data quality, lineage, and observability practices.
• Drive performance optimization, cost governance, and reliability across cloud environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineers.
• Partner with analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Lead MDM, metadata governance and data standardization initiatives.
• Oversee CI/CD, DevOps integration, testing, and monitoring for data workflows.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and propose platform improvements.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Azure data services

ETL/ELT design

Leadership

Data governance

Cloud cost management

Mentoring

Big data

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Fabric

Delta Lake

Azure Synapse

Apache Spark

Job description

Qcells North America is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect, build, and lead scalable, cloud-based data platforms enabling enterprise analytics and reporting. This role will own ETL/ELT frameworks using Azure data services and drive robust data models within a Lakehouse architecture, collaborating with architects, analysts, and business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings deep SQL and Python expertise, extensive experience with distributed data platforms, and strong knowledge of data