Lead Data Engineer

Flint Hills Resources; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to own, operate, and help architect the Enterprise Data Lake, Ingestion Framework and Databricks Platform from the Atlanta HQ. This hybrid role collaborates with Data Governance, Data Delivery, Product Owners, and Solution Architects to keep the platform reliable and aligned with business needs.

This role requires senior leadership, experience designing large-scale distributed systems, and a strong focus on data infrastructure to support

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
• Senior technical leader overseeing multiple data engineering teams.
• Experience with architectural design and systems integration for enterprise platforms.
• Experience leading operations for highly available data platforms and data lakes.
• Familiarity with IaC, Git and CI/CD patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead and optimize the GP data platform (Enterprise Data Lake, Ingestion Framework, Databricks), ensuring reliability, integrity, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features, maintain a healthy agile process, and enhance platform accessibility for customers.
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through performance monitoring, issue resolution, and development of self-service tools.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Senior technical leader

Data platform architecture

Agile collaboration

Data governance awareness

Tools

Terraform

Git/CI/CD

Airflow

Databricks

Delta Lake

AWS

Job description

As a Lead Data Platform Engineer on the Georgia Pacific Data Platform team, you will help deliver trusted, high-quality data across hundreds of systems and thousands of data assets. You will own, deliver, operate, and help architect the Enterprise Data Lake, Ingestion Framework, and Databricks Platform while partnering with Data Governance, Data Delivery, Product Owners, and Solution Architects to keep the platform reliable, scalable, governed, and aligned with business needs.

This role is based in our Atlanta, GA HQ office located on Peachtree St. This role is a hybrid-based role.

Our Team

The Georgia Pacific Data Platform team builds, manages, & operates centralized products that support Georgia Pacific’s Business Units and IT. These products enable data to be ingested, stored, processed, governed, managed, presented, and consumed consistently across the enterprise.

What You Will Do

• Lead and optimize the GP data platform (Enterprise Data Lake, Ingestion Framework, Databricks), ensuring reliability, integrity, and cost efficiency data and data infrastructure
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features, maintain a healthy agile process, and enhance platform accessibility for customers
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through performance monitoring, issue resolution, and development of self-service tools

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
• Experience serving as a senior technical leader overseeing multiple data engineering teams
• Experience in architectural design and systems integration for multi-stakeholder, enterprise-grade platforms
• Experience leading operations for highly available data platforms and data lakes
• Demonstrated experience in data infrastructure, including proficiency with Infrastructure as Code practices and skilled in GIT and CI/CD design patterns

What Will Put You Ahead

• Delivered innovative, scalable data solutions using Python, SQL, Spark, and Delta Lake, while optimizing data accessibility with open table formats (Delta, Hudi, Iceberg)
• Enhanced system efficiency and reliability by leveraging Terraform, Git/CI-CD workflows, and DAG tools (Airflow, Step Functions, Databricks Declarative Pipelines)
• Implemented and optimized the Databricks Data Platform and AWS services (Lambda, Glue, EventBridge, ECS, Kafka, etc.) to support business objectives

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.

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Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

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