Remote Lead Data Engineer — AI Data Platforms

Aimpoint Digital; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Aimpoint Digital is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver AI-ready data platforms across industries. You will design scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, develop semantic data models, and collaborate with analytics and ML teams to productionize AI-enabled analytics.

You will lead client engagements, plus small team projects; travel willingness and strong stakeholder management are valued as the company builds modern data engineering practice remotely within the US.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration with customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• 5+ years with relational databases and SQL.
• 5+ years building data pipelines in production across structured, semi-structured and unstructured data.
• 5+ years data modeling (star schema, ER, data vault).
• 5+ years coding in Python, Scala, Java or equivalent.
• 5+ years dbt Core/Cloud.
• Experience enabling data platform workflows with AI tools such as Codex, Claude, Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code or Databricks Genie Code.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (Databricks or Snowflake).
• 1+ certifications in Databricks or Snowflake preferred.
• Experience with cloud ETL/ELT tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Apache Spark preferred.
• Travel willingness.

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted data and AI advisor to clients, translating business questions into AI-ready data architectures.
• Work independently and lead small teams on data engineering use-cases across industries.
• Design and implement AI-optimized data platforms including cloud warehouses, lakehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics layers.
• Build semantic and analytical layers powering Snowflake Cortex, Databricks Genie and BI tools.
• Utilize Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran and cloud orchestration to deliver scalable solutions; earn certifications.
• Engineer ELT/ETL pipelines for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data for AI/analytics use cases.
• Design data models focusing on metrics layers, knowledge graphs, and semantic consistency for AI.

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent experience

Tools

dbt Core/Cloud

Snowflake

Databricks

Fivetran

Matillion

Informatica

Talend

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Job description

Aimpoint Digital is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver AI-ready data platforms across industries. You will design scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, develop semantic data models, and collaborate with analytics and ML teams to productionize AI-enabled analytics.

You will lead client engagements, plus small team projects; travel willingness and strong stakeholder management are valued as the company builds modern data engineering practice remotely within the US.