Data Engineering Lead & Mentor - Cloud Data Platforms

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UNKNOWN company is seeking a seasoned Data Engineering Team Lead to drive enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines. You will mentor a team, define best practices, and act as the technical liaison for data product customization and integration strategies.

You will lead design, development, and optimization of scalable data solutions using Databricks and cloud services, while leveraging Purview for data cataloging and governance.

Qualifications

• Must have seasoned data engineering background with leadership experience.
• Strong communication and customer service mindset for stakeholder interactions.
• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of total experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers to deliver complex migrations.
• Oversee ETL processes, data warehousing, and BI tooling design.
• Define standards for cloud-based data platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Guide Databricks-based data solution development and optimization.
• Coach team members and drive Agile practices across sprints.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Mentorship

ETL design

Python

Spark

SQL

Java

Scala

Cloud platforms

Leadership and communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Purview

Airflow

Azkaban

Postgres

Cassandra

Kafka

Job description

UNKNOWN company is seeking a seasoned Data Engineering Team Lead to drive enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines. You will mentor a team, define best practices, and act as the technical liaison for data product customization and integration strategies.

You will lead design, development, and optimization of scalable data solutions using Databricks and cloud services, while leveraging Purview for data cataloging and governance.