Lead Data Engineer: Real-Time Pipelines & Cloud DW

Tiger Analytics; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data platforms and real-time data solutions in a fast-growing analytics consulting firm. The role focuses on Python/SQL pipelines across AWS, Azure, or GCP with state-of-the-art tools.

You will lead the development of data models and warehouses, collaborating with architects, product teams, and stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in application/data engineering using Python and SQL.
• 5+ years of experience with at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• 5+ years of experience with distributed data processing technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, EMR, MapReduce, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience with data modeling for data warehousing and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable batch and real-time data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Design and implement data solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Build high-volume data processing solutions using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, EMR, or equivalent distributed technologies.
• Develop and optimize real-time and event-driven streaming applications.
• Design data models and structures supporting enterprise data warehouses and analytics platforms.
• Work with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Amazon Redshift.
• Optimize data pipelines and processing workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead technical discussions, design reviews, and provide guidance to other data engineers.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, application developers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Establish engineering best practices around code quality, testing, deployment, monitoring, and data quality

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Distributed data processing

Real-time streaming

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Hadoop

EMR

Snowflake

Databricks

Amazon Redshift

Job description

Tiger Analytics is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data platforms and real-time data solutions in a fast-growing analytics consulting firm. The role focuses on Python/SQL pipelines across AWS, Azure, or GCP with state-of-the-art tools.

You will lead the development of data models and warehouses, collaborating with architects, product teams, and stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions.