Lead Data Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Jun 18, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days
Job Summary
Serving as both technical architect and team lead, the full-time Lead Data Engineer will manage and mentor a team of data engineers while designing scalable data pipelines for parcel and geospatial products in a 100% remote environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Mentor and support a small team through technical leadership and feedback while coordinating project priorities
- Design and evolve scalable, cloud-native architectures for operational datasets, guiding architectural decisions
- Build and operate AWS-native data platforms and maintain medallion-style data pipelines processing large-scale datasets
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical disciplines
- Strong experience building distributed data pipelines and cloud-native data platforms
- Deep proficiency with Python and modern software engineering practices
- Experience with AWS-based data infrastructure
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives
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