Lead Data Engineer Architect & Deliver Modern Data Solutions

thoughtworksreferral; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Self-directed career development

Onsite collaboration

Job summary

Thoughtworks is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design modern data architectures and deliver end-to-end data solutions for diverse clients. The role blends hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and advisory work to unlock value from data while guiding teams from inception through production operation.

The candidate will lead data projects, collaborate with stakeholders, and own governance, security, and privacy requirements across distributed environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading data solution design and implementation.
• Hands-on experience building big data architectures and data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and modern data engineering tools.
• Experience deploying large-scale data pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage data engineering projects from scoping through delivery, coordinating across teams to land solutions on time.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and identify opportunities to leverage data and improve data quality.
• Design, build, and operate modern data architectures and end-to-end data solutions in distributed environments.
• Create intricate data processing pipelines and partner with data scientists to scale their models into production.
• Write clean, iterative code guided by test-driven development and continuous delivery practices to deploy and operate pipelines reliably.
• Advise clients on distributed storage and compute options, selecting appropriate data models and implementing them with the right technology stack.
• Own data governance, security, and privacy to meet business and compliance requirements, while embedding data quality into daily work.

Job description

Thoughtworks is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design modern data architectures and deliver end-to-end data solutions for diverse clients. The role blends hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and advisory work to unlock value from data while guiding teams from inception through production operation.

The candidate will lead data projects, collaborate with stakeholders, and own governance, security, and privacy requirements across distributed environments.