Role overview

Data Engineering Technical Lead

Requirements and responsibilities

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Work You’ll Do:

  • Serve as the primary technical lead and escalation point for enterprise data engineering initiatives
  • Bridge business requirements, architectural standards, and engineering implementation
  • Partner with business analysts, architects, BI teams, DevOps, and data engineers to support successful solution delivery
  • Interpret and clarify technical implementation requirements for data engineering teams
  • Guide implementation decisions across Databricks pipelines, transformations, and data models
  • Review engineering implementations for consistency, scalability, maintainability, and alignment to standards
  • Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis for data quality issues, failed pipelines, performance concerns, and production defects
  • Act as L1/L2 support lead for enterprise data platform operational issues
  • Perform lineage and downstream impact analysis for data model and pipeline changes
  • Guide implementation of reusable engineering patterns, medallion architecture, and gold-layer datasets
  • Coordinate defect triage, release support, deployment validation, and production stabilization activities
  • Support adoption of engineering standards, CI/CD processes, governance controls, and operational best practices
  • Mentor and guide data engineers on technical implementation approaches and enterprise standards
  • Drive consistency across engineering teams, platforms, and data products
  • Document technical patterns, implementation standards, operational procedures, and support processes

Basic Qualifications:

  • 12+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, BI engineering, or related technical roles and graduate in Engineering / Technology or on related field.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and modern data platform concepts
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, SQL, and Python
  • Experience supporting enterprise-scale data platforms and engineering teams
  • Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and technical problem-solving skills
  • Experience reviewing engineering implementations and guiding technical delivery
  • Experience with data lineage, dependency analysis, and downstream impact assessment
  • Ability to translate business and reporting requirements into practical engineering guidance
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across business and technical teams
  • Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, release management, and deployment processes

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting Power BI semantic models and enterprise reporting environments
  • Experience with Azure cloud data technologies including Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake
  • Experience with metadata management, governance, or catalog platforms
  • Experience operating within large, complex, multi-business-unit enterprise environments
  • Exposure to AI-assisted development, automation, or engineering productivity tools
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