Senior Data Platform Tech Lead

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Vacation accrual plan

15% discount for household

401(K) company match

DailyPay access

Job summary

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. is seeking a data platform leader to drive technical objectives and roadmaps for a data-domain. You will guide cross-team engineering initiatives, overseeing ingestion, streaming, and feature-store capabilities from Phoenix with a hybrid schedule (in-office Tue–Thu).

The role emphasizes governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract practices, plus mentoring engineers and presenting architecture plans to leadership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience with cross-team technical leadership.
• Advanced knowledge of Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, or equivalent lakehouse technologies.
• Experience designing batch and streaming architectures using Kafka or equivalent.
• Experience with data governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and recommend data engineering standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Lead major and complex initiatives involving ingestion, transformation, streaming, serving, and feature-store capabilities.
• Develop and implement governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract standards.
• Present technical recommendations to engineering leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead lakehouse, data-product, and real-time decisioning initiatives within the domain.
• Define resilient source-adapter patterns, including schema-drift quarantine, versioning, and replay after remediation.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and training to engineers and review work products.

Skills

Data leadership

Spark

Flink

Airflow

dbt

Lakehouse tech

Kafka

Data governance

Communication

Tools

Iceberg

Delta Lake

Hudi

Job description

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. is seeking a data platform leader to drive technical objectives and roadmaps for a data-domain. You will guide cross-team engineering initiatives, overseeing ingestion, streaming, and feature-store capabilities from Phoenix with a hybrid schedule (in-office Tue–Thu).

The role emphasizes governance, lineage, quality, and data-contract practices, plus mentoring engineers and presenting architecture plans to leadership.