Hybrid Data Operations Lead: High-Velocity Pipelines

Enlighten IT Group; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare: 100% paid employee premium

401(k) plan with 10% match

Generous PTO + 10 holidays

Education/training allowances

Job summary

Enlighten is seeking a senior Data Operations leader to drive reliability and speed in data delivery. You will serve as the primary technical contact for customers, translating mission requirements into engineered data workflows.

The role focuses on systems engineering and platform stability across complex ecosystems, guiding the transition to a proactive, self-healing data platform while coordinating with the client on high-touch delivery.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required.
• 9+ years in technical operations, systems engineering, or data management with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years with a Master’s degree; or 13 years with HS diploma.
• Distributed systems & cloud platforms experience with high-volume data.
• Observability and log analysis familiarity.
• SQL for data validation; ETL processes management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the DataOps team to ensure data reliability, uptime, and fast delivery of data sets.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between customer and technical team.
• Oversee deployment and maintenance of data flows using standard templates and libraries.
• Tune performance and monitor pipelines to minimize latency.
• Drive evolution of the data platform toward automated, proactive operations.
• Coordinate ecosystem efforts to reuse scripts and workflows across domains.
• Implement automated quality gates and schema validations.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

9+ years experience

Security+ readiness

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Python or Java

Cloud platforms

Job description

Enlighten is seeking a senior Data Operations leader to drive reliability and speed in data delivery. You will serve as the primary technical contact for customers, translating mission requirements into engineered data workflows.

The role focuses on systems engineering and platform stability across complex ecosystems, guiding the transition to a proactive, self-healing data platform while coordinating with the client on high-touch delivery.