Lead Data Platform Engineer & Team Coach - Remote

palmettocleantech; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote position in the United States

Job summary

Palmetto CleanTech is seeking a data engineering leader to drive a platform turning business data into secure, reliable services for product teams, partners, and AI agents. This player‑coach role blends team development and roadmap ownership with hands‑on architecture, design reviews, and occasional coding.

You will define data platform architecture across ingestion, modeling, governance, and APIs, deliver reliable pipelines, set data access standards, and partner with finance, operations,

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in software or data engineering, including five or more years managing engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to hire and develop engineers and build effective teams.
• Experience designing enterprise data architecture, including warehouses, data modeling, lineage, governance, and architecture reviews.
• Strong SQL and hands-on experience with a modern warehouse and transformation framework such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or dbt; fluency in a backend language such as Python.
• Experience with production APIs, access control, and handling personally identifiable information.
• Track record delivering cross-team data platform projects, setting priorities, and building consensus with non-engineering partners.
• Practical experience using coding agents and introducing agentic engineering practices to a team, including preparing governed data whose answers can be traced to source.
• Experience evaluating vendors and negotiating contracts.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, and retain data engineers; set expectations, provide feedback, and create career paths that reduce reliance on individual team members.
• Define the data platform roadmap and architecture across ingestion, modeling, semantic definitions, and governance; make priorities and trade-offs clear.
• Deliver reliable pipelines with service expectations, consistent metric definitions, and data suitable for AI consumers.
• Set standards and priorities for secure data serving through APIs and other access layers, including authorization and auditability.
• Partner with finance, operations, sales, marketing, and product to understand needs and turn them into practical recommendations.
• Evaluate vendors, negotiate contracts within delegated authority, and manage warehouse and tooling costs.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data governance

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor negotiation

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Job description

Palmetto CleanTech is seeking a data engineering leader to drive a platform turning business data into secure, reliable services for product teams, partners, and AI agents. This player‑coach role blends team development and roadmap ownership with hands‑on architecture, design reviews, and occasional coding.

You will define data platform architecture across ingestion, modeling, governance, and APIs, deliver reliable pipelines, set data access standards, and partner with finance, operations,