Lead Data Engineer - Cloud Data Platform & AI Foundations

Harnham; Fort Worth, Arlington, Dallas (TX, TX, TX); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

A leading data consultancy is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Fort Worth, Texas. The successful candidate will build high-performance data pipelines and migrate legacy systems into a cloud-native environment, enabling next-generation AI capabilities. The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS, Python or Scala, and SQL, along with a background in developing cloud-based data solutions. This role offers competitive benefits including medical, vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience, with 8+ preferred.
• Recent hands-on experience building cloud-based pipelines in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance data pipelines.
• Develop data transformations and ingestion frameworks.
• Bridge legacy systems to cloud-native platforms during migration.
• Design data foundations for AI and machine learning.

Skills

AWS

Python (or Scala)

SQL

Workflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow)

Tools

Terraform

Apache Iceberg

PySpark

Job description

A leading data consultancy is seeking a Lead Data Engineer in Fort Worth, Texas. The successful candidate will build high-performance data pipelines and migrate legacy systems into a cloud-native environment, enabling next-generation AI capabilities. The ideal candidate has strong experience with AWS, Python or Scala, and SQL, along with a background in developing cloud-based data solutions. This role offers competitive benefits including medical, vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan.