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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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