Houston Onsite Lead Data Engineer - AI/ML Platform Architect

INSPYR Solutions; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

INSPYR Solutions is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (AI/ML) in Houston, TX to shape architecture, set engineering standards, and write production code across data products, AI models, and platform infrastructure.

The role emphasizes building data pipelines, MLOps practices, GenAI apps like RAG, and end-to-end platform reliability on AWS and on-premise environments. Mentoring junior engineers is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership exposure.
• Expert Python and software engineering fundamentals (testing, reviews, branching, VCS).
• Experience building data products with Snowflake, DBT, Airflow.

Responsibilities

• Design and build batch and streaming pipelines for time-series and unstructured data.
• Define data modeling, quality, lineage, and cataloging practices for data products.
• Build feature pipelines and curated datasets for analytics, ML, and GenAI use cases.

Skills

Python

Mentoring

System design

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Airflow

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

SageMaker

Bedrock

Lambda

ECS

RDS

IAM

VPC

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

INSPYR Solutions is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (AI/ML) in Houston, TX to shape architecture, set engineering standards, and write production code across data products, AI models, and platform infrastructure.

The role emphasizes building data pipelines, MLOps practices, GenAI apps like RAG, and end-to-end platform reliability on AWS and on-premise environments. Mentoring junior engineers is expected.