Lead Data Engineer, Data Platform & AI Readiness

Versant Media

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 190,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Versant Media is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to guide the delivery of reliable, scalable source-to-Silver data products used for downstream analytics, reporting, AI, and day-to-day operations. This role leads a distributed/offshore engineering team and owns ingestion, transformation, data-quality controls, governance, and the operating model for consistent release-ready outputs.

You will partner with product managers and domain leaders to align on outcomes, implement data profiling and lineage,

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of data-engineering, software engineering, or data-platform experience, including 2+ years leading engineers or large-scale delivery.
  • Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale ingestion and transformation pipelines.
  • Hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, Spark/PySpark, and modern ELT/ETL patterns.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a distributed/offshore Data Engineering team delivering work from source ingestion through curated Silver-layer data products.
  • Convert roadmaps and requirements into engineering plans, milestones, estimates, and delivery commitments.
  • Design and manage ingestion, transformation, standardization, orchestration, and publication of data across sources.
  • Ensure Silver-layer data products are validated, standardized, documented, reusable, performant, secure, and prepared for Gold-layer analytics and AI consumption.
  • Create repeatable processing patterns for batch, CDC, and event-driven workflows.
  • Partner with the Data Platform team to use approved workspace, compute, storage, security, and deployment patterns.

Skills

SQL
Python
Spark
PySpark
ELT/ETL patterns
Databricks
Delta Lake
CI/CD
Unity Catalog
APIs
Data governance
Data quality

Tools

Databricks
Delta Lake
CI/CD
Unity Catalog
APIs
Event streaming

Job description

Versant Media is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to guide the delivery of reliable, scalable source-to-Silver data products used for downstream analytics, reporting, AI, and day-to-day operations. This role leads a distributed/offshore engineering team and owns ingestion, transformation, data-quality controls, governance, and the operating model for consistent release-ready outputs.

You will partner with product managers and domain leaders to align on outcomes, implement data profiling and lineage,

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