Senior Data Engineering Lead — Cloud Platforms & Mentorship

Steampunk, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a seasoned Data Engineering Team Lead to develop enterprise data platforms, services, and pipelines, while mentoring a team and engaging clients. The role requires strong communication, problem solving, and a passion for data-driven solutions.

You will guide ETL design, cloud-based data warehousing, and Databricks initiatives, while fostering agile practices and contributing to Steampunk’s AI & Data Exploitation Practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of total experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and provide technical oversight for a team of data engineers, ensuring successful delivery of complex data environment migrations with optimal performance and reliability.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication

Agile methodologies

Problem solving

Customer service

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Purview

Postgres

Cassandra

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Azkaban

Luigi

AWS

Azure

GCP

Storm

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

Python

Java

C++

Scala

Palo Alto Cortex

Wiz

Job description

Steampunk is seeking a seasoned Data Engineering Team Lead to develop enterprise data platforms, services, and pipelines, while mentoring a team and engaging clients. The role requires strong communication, problem solving, and a passion for data-driven solutions.

You will guide ETL design, cloud-based data warehousing, and Databricks initiatives, while fostering agile practices and contributing to Steampunk’s AI & Data Exploitation Practice.