Data Engineering Lead - Cloud Platforms & Pipelines

United Community; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 84,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

United Community in Greenville, SC seeks a Manager of Data Engineering to lead the team that builds and operates pipelines and platforms used by all analytics products. This is a hands-on leadership role: mentor engineers, set technical direction, review builds, and unblock complex problems.

You will own ingestion/transformation pipelines, drive cloud migration while sustaining on-prem operations, and manage the raw/historized data layer including Data Vault modeling standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in a related field; master's preferred.
• 7-10 years in data engineering, data warehousing, or data platform engineering with leadership.
• Hands-on with cloud data platforms and enterprise data pipelines (Snowflake, Coalesce, SQL Server, SSIS, NiFi/Openflow).
• Advanced SQL with performance tuning for high-volume tables.
• Experience with data warehousing (Kimball) and Data Vault modeling.
• Experience designing batch and incremental ingestion from multiple sources.
• Experience running production data operations and SLAs.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Banking/regulatory domain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of data engineers and data platform engineers with coaching and performance management.
• Set technical direction for data engineering and platform layer while remaining hands-on.
• Own ingestion and transformation pipelines delivering data into the enterprise platform on schedule.
• Advance cloud migration while sustaining on-prem ops and services.
• Own raw/historized data layer, Data Vault standards, and load patterns.
• Manage data platform administration, compute sizing, performance tuning, and costs.
• Establish engineering standards for version control, review, testing, deployment, and promotion.
• Ensure production reliability via monitoring, runbooks, and incident management.
• Collaborate with InfoSec and Infrastructure on connectivity and access provisioning.
• Manage third-party vendor relationships and ensure delivery/quality expectations.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and security standards.
• Maintain documentation for pipelines, models, and operational runbooks.
• Identify modernization opportunities across the stack.

Skills

Snowflake

Coalesce

SQL Server

SSIS

NiFi/Openflow

Advanced SQL

Data Vault

Kimball modeling

Batch ingestion

Production data operations

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or above

Master's preferred

Job description

United Community in Greenville, SC seeks a Manager of Data Engineering to lead the team that builds and operates pipelines and platforms used by all analytics products. This is a hands-on leadership role: mentor engineers, set technical direction, review builds, and unblock complex problems.

You will own ingestion/transformation pipelines, drive cloud migration while sustaining on-prem operations, and manage the raw/historized data layer including Data Vault modeling standards.