Lead Data Engineer - AI-Driven Pipelines & Leadership

RatedPower; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 87,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable Compensation

Job summary

Enverus is expanding its data engineering team in Brno, Czech Republic, to standardize pipelines and deliver energy-related data to our applications. We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer who combines hands-on development with proven team leadership to drive data manufacturing from ingestion to delivery, including AI-assisted data extraction.

You will guide a fast-moving team, design scalable data pipelines, and collaborate with product management to set priorities while advancing our data

Qualifications

• Demonstrated lead or tech-lead experience guiding data teams.
• Proficient in ETL on Databricks or Snowflake with PySpark.
• Skilled in data modeling, lineage, and schema management.
• Hands-on with Airflow or similar orchestration tools.
• CI/CD practices for data pipelines using GitHub.
• Cloud experience with AWS S3, IAM, and Lambda.
• Experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Guide the day-to-day operations of the data engineering team, coordinating with product management to set priorities and align engineering efforts.
• Build and maintain scalable data manufacturing pipelines using Databricks or equivalent MPP ETL platforms, PySpark, and modern ETL patterns.
• Integrate new energy and geoscience data sources into existing pipelines and applications, and lead the standardization of pipelines across large, overlapping datasets.
• Drive the integration of LLM and GenAI technologies into data extraction and transformation workflows, including AI-assisted well log digitization.
• Break complex projects into milestones, identify cross-team issues and opportunities, and lead collaborative solutions.
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, and provide feedback across projects.
• Influence technology choices and engineering standards for the broader organization, and serve as the go-to expert in key areas of the data platform.

Skills

Databricks

PySpark

Data modeling

Airflow

Snowflake

CI/CD for data pipelines

AWS

SQL/Relational DBs

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Job description

Enverus is expanding its data engineering team in Brno, Czech Republic, to standardize pipelines and deliver energy-related data to our applications. We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer who combines hands-on development with proven team leadership to drive data manufacturing from ingestion to delivery, including AI-assisted data extraction.

You will guide a fast-moving team, design scalable data pipelines, and collaborate with product management to set priorities while advancing our data