Team Lead - Data Modeling

Holman; Georgia; Remote; USD 105,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life and Disability Insurance

Flexible Spending and Health Savings

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) plan with Company Match

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Holidays, Bereavement, and Jury-D

Paid Pregnancy/Parental leave

Paid Military Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Holman seeks a senior data architect/engineer to lead enterprise data modeling within a modern Lakehouse. The role focuses on Bronze/Silver/Gold patterns, semantic models, and governance.

You’ll drive reusable data products and collaborate with AI practitioners to adopt emerging cloud data and automation technologies. This is a full-time role offering competitive benefits and remote options.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years designing modern cloud data platforms.
• Strong experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark, dbt, SQL.
• Experience with Medallion Architecture across bronze/silver/gold.
• Experience building analytics-ready data products.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data modeling and transformation.
• Design and implement lakehouse data assets and semantic models.
• Set standards for modeling, naming, and best practices.
• Mentor data engineers and analytics engineers.
• Assess risks related to performance, cost, and data quality.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Modeling

Leadership

Collaboration

AI/LLM familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, AI, Analytics or related disciplines

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Spark

dbt

SQL

Job description

Position Description

• Data Architecture & Modeling
  • Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data models and business-ready data products within a modern Lakehouse architecture.
  • Design scalable Medallion Architecture solutions across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
  • Develop Gold-layer business models that provide trusted, reusable, and governed enterprise data assets.
  • Design semantic models and business-layer abstractions that provide consistent access to enterprise data.
  • Create data structures optimized for analytics, operational applications, APIs, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic workflows.
• Development & Engineering
  • Develop and optimize transformation frameworks using technologies such as Databricks, dbt, Delta Lake, Spark, and SQL.
  • Remain actively involved in hands-on data modeling, transformation design, and technical implementation.
  • Develop reusable modeling patterns, frameworks, and standards that accelerate delivery across teams.
  • Apply automation, metadata-driven approaches, and AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, documentation, and solution quality.
• Technical Leadership
  • Serve as a technical leader and subject matter expert for enterprise data modeling and transformation.
  • Establish and maintain modeling standards, naming conventions, development practices, and reusable architecture patterns.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, performant, secure, and cost-effective.
  • Mentor data modelers, data engineers, and analytics engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
  • Identify technical risks involving performance, scalability, maintainability, cost, and data quality and guide teams toward appropriate solutions.
• Data Quality, Governance & Trust
  • Embed data quality, lineage, governance, observability, security, privacy, and compliance into the data modeling lifecycle.
  • Help establish clear standards around data ownership, governance, and domain responsibilities.
  • Ensure enterprise data products are trusted, discoverable, reusable, and optimized for both human and AI consumption.
• Collaboration & Innovation
  • Partner with business stakeholders, solution architects, data engineers, analytics engineers, application teams, analytics teams, and AI practitioners to translate business requirements into scalable data products.
  • Facilitate technical design discussions across multiple stakeholder groups and communicate complex architecture concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Evaluate emerging cloud data, AI, automation, and agentic technologies and identify opportunities where they can deliver meaningful business value.
  • Build proofs of concept and help establish new architectural approaches where established patterns do not yet exist.

Required Education & Experience

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Education & Experience

Master’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, or related disciplines.

Relevant Work Experience

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing modern cloud data platforms, data warehouses, lakehouses, or enterprise analytics environments.
• Strong experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark, dbt, SQL, and cloud-native data engineering technologies.
• Experience designing Medallion Architecture solutions and implementing bronze, silver, and gold layer patterns.
• Experience building scalable data products, semantic models, and analytics-ready datasets for enterprise consumption.
• Strong understanding of data transformation frameworks, ELT architectures, metadata
• Familiarity with modern AI technologies, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector-based architectures, and agentic workflows.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and modern engineering practices to improve productivity and solution quality

#REMOTE

At Holman, we exist to provide rewarding careers and better lives for employees and their families. We hire, train, empower, and reward exceptional people. Our journey is guided by our desire to get it right every time and the acknowledgement that we have an opportunity to be better. To be better, we have to do better, and to do better we must know better. That’s why we are listening, open to learning new things – about ourselves and each other. We will never stop striving for improved diversity, equity, and inclusion because we are successful together when we feel trusted and supported. It’s The Holman Way.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) plan with Company Match
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays, Bereavement, and Jury Duty
• Paid Pregnancy/Parental leave
• Paid Military Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement

Regular Full-Time

We offer excellent benefits including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance, and 401(k) with company match. Our time off benefits include Paid Time Off (PTO), paid holidays, bereavement, and jury duty. In addition, we offer paid pregnancy and parental leave, and supplemental paid military leave to eligible employees.

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Temporary or Part-Time

In geographic areas with statutory paid sick leave, part-time and temporary employees will receive a paid sick leave benefit that meets the mandated requirements.

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Pay:

We offer competitive wages that are commensurate with job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and geographic location, starting in the range of $105,050.00 - $149,700.00 USD annually for full time employees. The annual compensation range is comprised of base pay earnings.

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