Lead Data Engineer
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Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Fri, Nov 13, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Leading the engineering workstream on customer engagements, the full-time Lead Data Engineer will build and optimize production Lakehouse pipelines using PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake on Databricks while working remotely.
Key responsibilities
- Lead engineering on customer engagements from design through production handover
- Build and optimize batch and streaming pipelines using PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake
- Implement data quality and validation as code, including automated testing in CI
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of data engineering experience with a focus on leading projects or teams
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake
- Production experience building both batch and streaming pipelines at enterprise scale
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and its data services
- Experience with data modeling, Git, and CI/CD for data workloads
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