What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Data Engineer position at Huxley?
This is a high-impact opportunity to help design and scale a modern, cloud-native data platform with a strong emphasis on AI/LLM-powered data products. You'll play a key role in owning architecture and delivery end-to-end, while balancing hands-on development with technical leadership and mentorship. This is an ideal role for engineers who enjoy building scalable systems and influencing platform direction. Key Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable data pipelines and architectures
- Develop and support cloud-native data platforms on AWS
- Contribute to AI/LLM-driven data applications and workflows
- Collaborate across teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions
- Drive best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation
- Strong experience with Python and SQL
- Proven track record building scalable data pipelines and systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS (infrastructure, CI/CD, observability)
- Experience with AI/LLM-enabled applications
- Experience with Snowflake or similar data platforms
- Background in DevOps, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Solid knowledge of databases (Postgres, Aurora, etc.)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Pulumi, Terraform)