Lead Enterprise Data Platform & Cloud Engineer

Academy Sports and Outdoors; Katy (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Academy Sports + Outdoors seeks a Sr Enterprise Data Platform and Engineering leader for our Katy, TX headquarters. You will shape the enterprise data platform, design scalable ingestion, ELT/ETL patterns, and CI/CD automation to empower Data Products and Analytics teams.

Collaborating across cloud-native engineering, you will implement security, governance, metadata, lineage, and observability frameworks, mentor engineers, and drive reusable platform standards across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Platform/Cloud Engineering.
• Experience designing and supporting large-scale enterprise data platforms.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with modern data tooling knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise data platform services and ingestion frameworks.
• Lead automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Establish governance, security, metadata, lineage, and observability practices.

Skills

SQL

Python

BigQuery scripting

CI/CD

Data orchestration

Observability

Security governance

Metadata management

Ingestion pipelines

Cloud data platforms

Education

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

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

DBT Core

OpenMetadata

Cube Cloud

Confluent Kafka

Datastage

Composer

Job description

Academy Sports + Outdoors seeks a Sr Enterprise Data Platform and Engineering leader for our Katy, TX headquarters. You will shape the enterprise data platform, design scalable ingestion, ELT/ETL patterns, and CI/CD automation to empower Data Products and Analytics teams.

Collaborating across cloud-native engineering, you will implement security, governance, metadata, lineage, and observability frameworks, mentor engineers, and drive reusable platform standards across the organization.