Lead Enterprise Data Engineer

Coastal Waste & Recycling Inc.; Boca Raton, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Coastal Waste & Recycling is seeking a Corporate Manager, Enterprise Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and reliability of our enterprise data platform. You’ll drive scalable, well-governed data solutions supporting analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with IT, operations, and finance to translate requirements into robust pipelines, ensure performance, and advance data maturity across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a technical field.
• 7+ years in data engineering, data integration, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, or cloud data platforms.
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role on enterprise data projects.
• Strong Snowflake administration and SQL development experience.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory or similar tools.
• Cloud data architecture, API integrations, and CI/CD practices.
• Production data platform monitoring, data quality, and access control knowledge.
• Excellent documentation and collaboration skills.
• Ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader for enterprise data engineering initiatives.
• Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines, ingestion, transformations, and orchestration.
• Administer and optimize Snowflake environments (databases, warehouses, roles, costs).
• Develop and maintain Azure Data Factory pipelines and integration runtimes.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, retry, and recovery for data pipelines.
• Build and maintain data quality controls and source-to-target validation.
• Support integrations with enterprise apps, APIs, and cloud services.
• Follow CI/CD, change management, and release processes for pipelines and objects.
• Collaborate with enterprise functions to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize data engineering processes.
• Maintain production data platform reliability and troubleshoot issues.
• Document data pipelines, integrations, and production support processes.
• Support data needs for acquisitions and new markets.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineers and analysts.

Skills

Snowflake administration

SQL development

Azure Data Factory

ETL/ELT development

Data warehousing

Cloud data platform

APIs & integrations

Git-based source control

CI/CD practices

Data governance

Python

Databricks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree in related field (preferred)

Tools

Python

Databricks

Job description

About Coastal Waste & Recycling At Coastal Waste & Recycling, we're building more than a company, we're building a team. As one of the fastest-growing privately held waste and recycling companies in the Southeast, we're looking for people who take pride in their work, put safety first, and are ready to grow with us. Corporate Manager, Enterprise Data Engineer Coastal Waste & Recycling is looking for a Corporate Manager, Enterprise Data Engineer to help lead the design, development, and reliability of our enterprise data platform during an exciting period of growth.

This role is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity focused on building scalable, reliable, and well-governed data solutions that support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, integrations, and future AI initiatives across the business. The Corporate Manager, Enterprise Data Engineer will work closely with technology and business teams to strengthen Coastal’s data foundation, improve pipeline performance and reliability, and continue modernizing how data moves across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a technical leader for enterprise data engineering initiatives.


• Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines, ingestion frameworks, transformations, and orchestration workflows.


• Administer and optimize Snowflake environments, including databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, grants, performance, and cost management.


• Develop and maintain Azure Data Factory pipelines, triggers, integration runtimes, and data movement processes.


• Establish monitoring, alerting, retry, and failure-recovery processes for critical data pipelines.


• Build and maintain data quality controls, including source-to-target validation, reconciliation, exception handling, and supporting documentation.


• Support integrations with enterprise applications, third‑party systems, APIs, cloud services, and approved data-sharing solutions.


• Follow established change management, release, and CI/CD processes for production pipelines, database objects, integrations, and platform changes.


• Partner with Enterprise Data Operations, Enterprise Analytics, Operations, Finance, Sales, People Experience, and IT to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions.


• Identify opportunities to improve data engineering processes through automation, reusable frameworks, standardization, and improved monitoring.


• Support the reliability and performance of production data platforms and troubleshoot technical issues as needed.


• Maintain technical documentation for data pipelines, integrations, architecture, and production support processes.


• Support data needs related to acquisitions, system integrations, new markets, and other business growth initiatives.


• Provide technical direction, mentoring, and quality review for data engineers, analysts, contractors, and implementation partners.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.


• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, ETL/ELT development, data warehousing, or cloud data platform engineering.


• 2+ years of experience serving as a technical lead, senior engineer, solution architect, platform owner, or similar role on enterprise data projects.


• Strong experience with Snowflake administration and SQL development.


• Strong experience with Azure Data Factory or comparable enterprise data integration tools.


• Experience with cloud data architecture, API and third‑party integrations, Git‑based source control, and CI/CD practices.


• Experience supporting production data platforms with established monitoring, data quality, access controls, and change management practices.


• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.


• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.


• Microsoft Azure or Snowflake SnowPro certification.


• Experience with Python, Azure DevOps, dbt or similar transformation frameworks, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, MDM, data governance, lakehouse architectures, or AI/ML data pipelines.


• Experience supporting a multi‑location or operationally complex organization.


• Experience supporting high‑growth organizations, acquisitions, or system integrations.


• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Why Coastal?

Coastal Waste & Recycling continues to grow, and strong data infrastructure is increasingly important to how we operate, report, and make decisions. This role offers the opportunity to help strengthen and modernize the enterprise data platform behind that growth. You will work on meaningful business problems, improve the reliability and scalability of core data processes, and help build the technical foundation that supports analytics, reporting, integrations, and future innovation across Coastal. If you enjoy building reliable data systems, solving complex technical problems, and improving how an organization uses data at scale, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Company Culture

Coastal Waste & Recycling is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Coastal, our company culture is based on integrity. We do the right thing for our employees, customers, community, and environment. Because we are focused on doing the right thing, accountability, safety, environmental stewardship, and customer service are organic to our culture. The Coastal founders believe strongly, that keeping focused on the people they have the privilege to serve will solidify their position in the industry and separate them from their competitors. Starting a level playing field with facilities and equipment, the true worth of a service organization is in its people.

Coastal Waste & Recycling is an Equal Opportunity Employer and shall not discriminate in hiring, promoting, pay, benefits, termination or any other aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or marital status.

Coastal Waste & Recycling is a Drug Free Workplace and drug testing is a condition of employment.