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Sr. Lead Data Engineer

ExecutivePlacements.com
Huntsville, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 11/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/15/2025
We are seeking a Sr. Lead Data Engineer for a hybrid for a W2 position (Must work on our W2 and commute to Huntsville, Texas when required). Will lead the design, implementation, and management of end-to-end, enterprise-grade data solutions for our Huntsville, Texas, client. This role requires expertise in building and optimizing data warehouses, data lakes, and lake house platforms, with a strong emphasis on data engineering, data science, and machine learning. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to create scalable and robust architectures that support advanced analytics and machine learning use cases, while adhering to industry standards and best practices. Responsibilities Include:*

Architect, design, and manage the entire data lifecycle from data ingestion,transformation, storage, and processing to advanced analytics and machine learning databases and large-scale processing systems.*

Implement robust data governance frameworks, including metadata management, lineage tracking, security, compliance, and business glossary development.*

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manualprocesses.*

Ensure high data quality and reliability through automated data validation and testing and provide high quality clean, and usable data from data sets of varying states of disorder.*

Develop and enforce architecture standards, patterns, and reference models for large-scale data platforms.*

Architect and implement Lambda and Kappa architectures for real-time and batch data processing workflows along with strong data modeling capabilities.*

Ability to identify and implement the most appropriate data management system and enable integration capabilities for external tools to perform ingestion, compilation, analytics and visualization.Required:*

Bachelor's Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.*

Minimum 10 years in data engineering, data architecture, or a similar role, with at least 3 years in a lead capacity.*

Proficient in SQL, Python, and big data processing frameworks (, Spark, Flink).*

Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and related data services.*

Hands-on experience with data warehousing tools (, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery), Databricks running on multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP) and data lake technologies (, S3, ADLS, HDFS).*

Expertise in containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.*

Knowledge of MLOps frameworks and tools (, MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow).*

Experience with real-time streaming architectures (, Kafka, Kinesis).*

Familiarity with Lambda and Kappa architectures for data processing.*

Enable integration capabilities for external tools to perform ingestion, compilation, analytics and visualization. Preferred:*

Certifications in cloud platforms or data-related technologies.*

Familiarity with graph databases, NoSQL, or time-series databases.*

Knowledge of data privacy regulations (, GDPR, CCPA) and compliance requirements.*

Experience in implementing and managing business glossaries, data governance rules, metadata lineage, and ensuring data quality.*

Highly experienced with AWS cloud platform and Databricks Lakehouse.

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