Lead Data Engineer - GCP, Data Lakes & Analytics

Tyson Foods

Springdale (AR)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off
401(k) plans
Health, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Tyson Foods is seeking a Lead IT Data Engineer to design, develop, govern, and support enterprise data solutions for the Beef & Pork Analytics team. You will lead data model design, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data products for Fresh Meats reporting, with a focus on scalable, secure architectures across Data@Tyson and GCP.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data engineering, strong SQL, hands-on GCP/BigQuery, and experience with DB2, SAP, and data governance.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Analytics, or related field.
  • 5+ years of practical experience in data engineering, cloud data platforms, enterprise analytics, data warehousing, BI, or related tech delivery.
  • Strong SQL skills for enterprise reporting, dashboards, semantic models, and analytics consumption.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, preferably GCP and BigQuery.
  • Experience designing multi-layer data architectures (lake/hub/curated/analytics/semantic).
  • Experience with ETL/ELT development, orchestration, monitoring, and production support.
  • Experience with source-system data (DB2, SAP, USDA, ERP, etc.).
  • Understanding of data governance, metadata, lineage, and data security controls.
  • Experience with Git-based development, MR, code review, testing, and deployment discipline.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of data engineering solutions for Beef & Pork Analytics, including data lake, hub, analytics-ready datasets.
  • Convert requirements and KPIs into scalable data models, pipelines, transformations, and datasets.
  • Develop data products for Fresh Meats reporting use cases.
  • Build and orchestrate complex ETL/ELT pipelines with automation, monitoring, and production support.
  • Support data integrations into Data@Tyson/GCP with DB2, SAP, USDA and other sources, including freshness monitoring and reconciliation.
  • Design reusable data solutions with shared dimensions and enterprise terms.
  • Lead data quality, observability, and issue resolution from source systems to reporting outputs.
  • Mentor data engineers and analysts in SQL, GCP, dbt, orchestration, and governance expectations.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders and platform teams to ensure documented, stewarded data assets.

Skills

SQL
GCP BigQuery
Data modeling
ETL/ELT
Data governance
Security controls
Git-based development
Leadership
Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

DB2
SAP
Power BI
dbt
Python
PySpark
Spark
Terraform
CI/CD
Collibra

Job description

Tyson Foods is seeking a Lead IT Data Engineer to design, develop, govern, and support enterprise data solutions for the Beef & Pork Analytics team. You will lead data model design, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data products for Fresh Meats reporting, with a focus on scalable, secure architectures across Data@Tyson and GCP.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in data engineering, strong SQL, hands-on GCP/BigQuery, and experience with DB2, SAP, and data governance.

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