Remote Cloud Data & AI Foundations Lead

Ascension; St. Louis (MO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

403(b) retirement plan

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Pet insurance

Job summary

Ascension is seeking a Remote-based Senior Data Engineering Lead to guide a diverse team responsible for mission-critical production data systems. You will champion cloud-native data solutions on GCP, ensure reliability, and drive automation initiatives to improve efficiency and resilience.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with product, analytics, and business teams while implementing AI-assisted engineering practices to optimize development workflows.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent with 3 years of cumulative experience.
• Associate's degree with some experience, or Bachelor's degree with 2 years of cumulative experience, or 7 years of applicable cumulative job-specific experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a diverse team of data engineers, DevOps, and platform engineers.
• Ensure reliability and operational health of production data systems.
• Oversee design and deployment of scalable data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, and observability frameworks.

Skills

Team Leadership

Data engineering

DevOps

Platform engineering

CI/CD

IaC

Cloud architecture

Education

High School diploma equivalency

Associate's degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GCP

Looker/Power BI

BigQuery

Job description

Ascension is seeking a Remote-based Senior Data Engineering Lead to guide a diverse team responsible for mission-critical production data systems. You will champion cloud-native data solutions on GCP, ensure reliability, and drive automation initiatives to improve efficiency and resilience.

You will lead cross-functional collaboration with product, analytics, and business teams while implementing AI-assisted engineering practices to optimize development workflows.