Hands-On Data Platform Architect & Team Lead

STEM Search Group; Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson (SC, SC, SC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

STEM Search Group in Greenville, SC seeks an experienced data engineering leader to serve as a hands-on technical architect for the data platform. You will own architecture decisions in a team without a dedicated architect.

You will lead a small data engineering team, drive the migration to Snowflake, and modernize ELT workflows with dbt/Coalesce while guiding BI by Tableau and Sigma. Mentoring through 1:1s and pairing is expected, with strong stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data engineering architecture experience.
• Experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse.
• Experience with modern ELT tooling such as dbt and Coalesce.

Responsibilities

• Act as hands-on technical architect for the data platform, making architecture decisions since there is no separate architect role.
• Lead and coach a small data engineering team, remaining hands-on with pipeline design, code review, and day-to-day problem solving.
• Own the technical roadmap for migrating core data infrastructure to Snowflake, guiding schema design, performance, and scalability.
• Modernize ELT workflows using dbt, Coalesce, or similar, retiring legacy processes as the platform evolves.
• Guide reporting and BI strategy across Tableau and Sigma so dashboards and data models scale with the new environment.
• Coach and develop team members through regular 1:1s and pairing, stepping in to coach up where skill gaps exist.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into scalable, well-architected data solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Snowflake

ELT tooling

BI tooling

Player-coach leadership

Mentorship

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

dbt

Coalesce

Tableau

Azure

Job description

STEM Search Group in Greenville, SC seeks an experienced data engineering leader to serve as a hands-on technical architect for the data platform. You will own architecture decisions in a team without a dedicated architect.

You will lead a small data engineering team, drive the migration to Snowflake, and modernize ELT workflows with dbt/Coalesce while guiding BI by Tableau and Sigma. Mentoring through 1:1s and pairing is expected, with strong stakeholder collaboration.