Lead Data Engineer - Azure DW & AI-Driven Data

OC Sports & Entertainment; Anaheim (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OC Sports & Entertainment, LLC is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and govern a unified data warehouse architecture that unifies ticketing, loyalty, and F&B data. You will own identity resolution end‑to‑end, establish data governance in Azure, and deliver production‑grade pipelines while partnering with business and technical stakeholders to produce trusted analytics products.

The role requires 6+ years of hands‑on data engineering experience, a Bachelor's Degree, and deep

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of hands‑on data engineering experience designing and building production‑grade systems.
• Academic background in a quantitative or technical field such as physics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, or related field.
• Production‑grade pipeline development in Python and advanced SQL, with emphasis on performance and observability.
• Experience with dbt and building reliable transformation layers for analytics.
• Experience with Airflow or Dagster/Prefect, DAG design and failure handling at scale.
• Deep Azure data warehouse experience; AWS or GCP experience transferable.
• Experience with medallion architecture in production environments.
• Experience auditing externally managed platforms and evaluating architectures.
• Experience owning engineering standards, code review, and pipeline governance.
• AI‑native mindset with experience using AI‑assisted tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a governed data warehouse architecture unifying ticketing, loyalty, and F&B data.
• Own identity resolution end‑to‑end and define the entity framework with onboarding of new sources.
• Govern the Azure data environment with monitoring, cost controls, and consolidation.
• Audit the existing platform and drive toward full internal ownership with stakeholders.
• Translate complex data decisions for non‑technical partners and deliver trusted data products.
• Mentor engineers and promote technical rigor while remaining hands‑on as a builder.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Azure

Data governance

Azure Data Warehouse

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Dagster

Prefect

dbt

Airflow

Job description

OC Sports & Entertainment, LLC is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and govern a unified data warehouse architecture that unifies ticketing, loyalty, and F&B data. You will own identity resolution end‑to‑end, establish data governance in Azure, and deliver production‑grade pipelines while partnering with business and technical stakeholders to produce trusted analytics products.

The role requires 6+ years of hands‑on data engineering experience, a Bachelor's Degree, and deep