Cloud-Scale Data & Backend Engineering Lead

Grid Dynamics; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate social events

Well-equipped office

cutting-edge projects

Job summary

Grid Dynamics in Atlanta, USA seeks a Staff-level Data & Backend Engineering Lead to steer a large enterprise transformation. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on backend development, data engineering and production troubleshooting, guiding multiple teams across regions.

The role emphasizes architecture reviews, end-to-end data integration, and robust testing practices while remaining hands-on with Java/Spring Boot on GCP and BigQuery.

Qualifications

• Staff/Lead-level engineering experience on a large-scale enterprise transformation or modernization program.
• Deep Google Cloud data engineering expertise with end-to-end data integration and lineage/traceability.
• Experience with GCP integration/orchestration technologies such as Pub/Sub, GCS, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Run/Functions and Composer/Airflow.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture, solution design and engineering execution across backend and data engineering workstreams.
• Translate complex data engineering and integration requirements into technical user stories, tasks and acceptance criteria in JIRA.
• Drive technical execution across multiple parallel development streams and US/APAC engineering teams.
• Provide hands-on development and troubleshooting using Java/Spring Boot, GCP and BigQuery.
• Own/review data integration patterns involving BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Run/Functions and Composer/Airflow.
• Ensure traceability of data movement into, within and out of BigQuery, including production issue troubleshooting.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across SDLC, Git branching, merge/release strategy, CI/CD.
• Lead code/design reviews and mentor engineers on engineering standards and decision-making.
• Drive quality through unit, integration, automation and data-validation testing.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

GCP

BigQuery

Data engineering

SDLC & Git

Technical leadership

Tools

JIRA

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

GCS

Composer/Airflow

Cloud Run/Functions

Job description

Grid Dynamics in Atlanta, USA seeks a Staff-level Data & Backend Engineering Lead to steer a large enterprise transformation. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on backend development, data engineering and production troubleshooting, guiding multiple teams across regions.

The role emphasizes architecture reviews, end-to-end data integration, and robust testing practices while remaining hands-on with Java/Spring Boot on GCP and BigQuery.