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Lead Cloud Data Engineer - Remote Opportunity in GA, Atlanta

We are building a next-generation Cloud Data Platform to unify data from Policy, Claims, Billing, and Administration systems into a single source of truth. We are seeking a Lead Cloud Data Engineer who will be 75% hand-on and play a critical role in designing, building, and optimizing our modern data ecosystem leveraging Medallion architecture, Delta Lake, and modern data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake, Synapse, or Redshift.

As a technical leader, the Lead Data Engineer will define and execute the end-to-end data engineering strategy from data ingestion and modeling to governance and performance optimization enabling scalable, high-quality, and analytics-ready data assets. This role requires hands on deep technical expertise in cloud-native data engineering, automation, and architecture design, coupled with strong leadership to mentor teams and align solutions with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategic roadmap for the enterprise data platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and interoperability across business domains.
• Architect and implement cloud-native, Medallion-based data architectures (BronzeSilverGold layers) for unified and governed data delivery.
• Drive standardization of data models, pipelines, and quality frameworks across Policy, Claims, Billing, and Administrative data assets.
• Evaluate and implement emerging data technologies to strengthen the platform's performance, cost efficiency, and resilience

Data Integration & Ingestion

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance ingestion pipelines, using AWS Glue, Databricks, or custom Spark applications.
• Automate ingestion of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from APIs, databases, and external data feeds.
• Tune and monitor ingestion pipelines for throughput, cost control, and reliability across dev/test/prod environments.

Data Transformation & Modeling

• Hands on Development of ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks or similar frameworks to transform raw data into curated and consumption-ready datasets.
• Design and develop relational, Vault, and dimensional data models to support analytics, BI, and AI/ML workloads.
• Define and enforce data quality standards, validation frameworks, and enrichment rules to ensure trusted business data.
• Apply data quality, cleansing, and enrichment logic to ensure accuracy and completeness of business-critical data.

Cloud Infrastructure, Automation and Performance

• Collaborate with DevOps and Cloud Engineering teams to design automated, infrastructure-as-code environments using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data pipeline deployment, versioning, and testing.
• Lead performance tuning and scalability optimization to ensure highly available, cost-efficient data platform.

Governance, Security & Compliance

• Implement and enforce data governance, cataloging, and lineage practices using tools such as Purview, Alation, or Collibra.
• Partner with InfoSec to implement data privacy, access control, and compliance frameworks aligned with regulatory standards.
• Drive consistency and accountability in data stewardship across business and IT teams.

Leadership, Collaboration & Mentorship

• Lead a team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, coaching, and performance mentorship.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, Analysts, and Business Leaders to align data solutions with enterprise strategy.
• Promote a culture of engineering excellence, reusability, and knowledge sharing across data organization.
• Influence enterprise-wide standards for data engineering, automation, and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in data engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead or architect-level role and at least 8+ years on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Deep hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and data modeling (relational, and Dimensional), Databricks, Spark, AWS Glue, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Synapse, or Redshift.
• Proven experience with Medallion architecture, modern data warehousing principles, data governance, lineage, and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience in the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance domain such as Policy, Claims, or Billing data preferred.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis) and real-time data streaming.
• Knowledge of machine learning pipeline integration and feature engineering.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale data modernization or cloud migration initiatives.

Compensation

• $140,000 - $165,000 commensurate with experience, plus bonus eligibility

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus incentive plans for eligible team members
• 401(K) retirement plan that includes a company match of up to 6% of your eligible salary
• Free basic life and AD&D, long-term disability and short-term disability insurance
• Medical, dental and vision plans to meet your unique healthcare needs
• Wellness incentives
• Generous time off program that includes personal, holiday and volunteer paid time off
• Flexible work schedules and hybrid/remote options for eligible positions
• Educational assistance