Data Platform Tech Lead - AI-Ready Data Lakes

Socket.dev; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 121,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits: medical, vision, and

401(k) and stock purchase program

Paid time off including PTO, parental,

Education benefits: Walmart LiveBetter

Job summary

Walmart is seeking a Principal Data Engineer/Tech Lead to drive the evolution of our Data Lake and enterprise data platform. You will architect and set standards for scalable, reliable data systems, and partner across teams to enable AI-driven experiences.

You will lead large, cross-functional engineering projects, mentor others, and contribute hands-on while shaping architecture and technical direction in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering or related experience.
• Master’s degree preferred in a related area with 3+ years experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, cross-functional engineering projects from requirements gathering through design and delivery.
• Provide technical leadership, collaboration, and clear communication across teams.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure quality and architectural alignment.
• Design scalable, high-availability, high-performance data platforms.
• Contribute hands-on while influencing architecture and technical direction.
• Solve complex technical problems across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Work in cloud-native environments.
• Mentor others and drive continuous improvement.
• Build AI-ready, discoverable, context-rich data foundations.
• Apply AI tools in engineering workflows for code generation, pipeline acceleration, documentation, debugging, testing, or operational support.

Skills

Python

SQL

PySpark

Data engineering

ETL/ELT design

Data pipelines

AI readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS/SE

Master’s degree in CS/CE/IS/SE

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

AWS

GCP

Job description

Walmart is seeking a Principal Data Engineer/Tech Lead to drive the evolution of our Data Lake and enterprise data platform. You will architect and set standards for scalable, reliable data systems, and partner across teams to enable AI-driven experiences.

You will lead large, cross-functional engineering projects, mentor others, and contribute hands-on while shaping architecture and technical direction in a cloud-native environment.