Lead Data Engineer, Consumer

Versant3; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant3 is seeking a hands-on Data Product Engineering Lead to steer engineering resources in delivering trusted, scalable data products from source systems through the Silver layer of our enterprise data platform. You will partner with architects, data modelers, product managers, and governance to build data capabilities that feed analytics, AI, and operations.

You will lead delivery of source-to-Silver data products, guide a distributed team of Data Engineers, translate roadmaps into

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering, software engineering, or data-platform experience, including 2+ years leading engineers, technical workstreams, or large-scale delivery.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Strong hands-on expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of source-to-Silver data products.
• Lead and develop a distributed/offshore team of Data Engineers.
• Translate roadmaps into actionable plans with milestones and estimates.
• Design ingestion, transformation, standardization, orchestration, and publication of data.
• Ensure Silver-layer data products are validated, documented, and reusable.
• Establish patterns for batch, incremental, change-data-capture, and event-driven processing.

Skills

Data engineering

Leadership

Team management

Enterprise-scale pipelines

Job description

We are seeking a hands-on Data Product Engineering Lead to lead engineering resources to deliver trusted, scalable, and reusable data products from source systems through the Silver layer of our enterprise data platform. This role is accountable for turning product and business needs into reliable, governed data capabilities: ingesting source data, applying standardized transformations, implementing data-quality controls, and publishing documented Silver-layer datasets ready for downstream analytics, reporting, AI, and operational use. The Data Product Engineering Lead works closely with Solution Architects, Data Modelers, Product Managers, domain experts, platform teams, and governance partners to ensure each data and digital product is built on a scalable data foundation.

What you will do

• Lead delivery of source-to-Silver data products
• Lead and develop a distributed/offshore team of Data Engineers responsible for delivery from source ingestion through curated Silver-layer data products.
• Translate product roadmaps and requirements into actionable engineering plans, milestones, estimates, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Design and oversee ingestion, transformation, standardization, orchestration, and publication of data from operational, SaaS, file, streaming, API, and partner sources.
• Ensure Silver-layer data products are validated, standardized, documented, reusable, performant, secure, and ready for Gold-layer analytics and AI consumption.
• Establish repeatable patterns for batch, incremental, change-data-capture, and event-driven processing.

Build scalable engineering foundations

• Implement reusable data-engineering frameworks, templates, libraries, and pipeline patterns that reduce repeated effort across products and domains.
• Apply modern engineering practices, including source control, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, release management, and incident remediation.
• Define and maintain standards for naming, partitioning, schema evolution, error handling, replay/recovery, performance, cost management, and documentation.
• Partner with the Data Platform team to use approved workspace, compute, storage, security, and deployment patterns.
• Identify technical debt and lead pragmatic improvements that increase delivery speed, reliability, and maintainability.

Partner across architecture, modeling, and product

• Work with Data Modelers to implement canonical entities, conformed dimensions, data contracts, source-to-target mappings, and enterprise modeling standards.
• Work with Product Managers and domain leaders to clarify intended outcomes, source-system realities, priority use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate dependencies with source-system owners, platform teams, analytics teams, and external partners.

Ensure trusted, governed data

• Establish data profiling, reconciliation, quality testing, freshness monitoring, lineage, and alerting for every delivered data product.
• Ensure source-to-Silver traceability, including authoritative source identification, transformation logic, ownership, metadata, and data-quality expectations.
• Implement appropriate access controls, sensitive-data classification, masking, retention, and regional/data-residency requirements.
• Drive resolution of data defects, schema changes, pipeline failures, and quality issues through clear ownership and service-level expectations.

Lead the team and delivery operating model

• Set clear priorities, technical direction, delivery expectations, and quality standards for the engineering team.
• Coach engineers in data engineering, cloud development, testing, observability, and product-oriented delivery practices.
• Create a healthy onshore/offshore delivery model with defined handoffs, overlap hours, documentation standards, ceremonies, and escalation paths.
• Communicate delivery progress, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
• Build a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and reliable execution.

What success looks like

• Product teams receive reliable Silver-layer data products on predictable timelines.
• New sources and data products are delivered faster because teams reuse proven patterns and shared components.
• Silver-layer data is trusted: complete, reconciled, monitored, documented, and traceable to authoritative sources.
• Data model and architecture standards are implemented consistently across domains.
• Pipeline failures, data-quality defects, and late-breaking schema changes are detected early and resolved quickly.
• The distributed engineering team operates as one accountable delivery unit rather than as a ticket-fulfillment function.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering, software engineering, or data-platform experience, including 2+ years leading engineers, technical workstreams, or large-scale delivery.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Strong hands-on expertis