Data Warehouse & Data Integration

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Technical Lead Data Warehouse & Data Integration

Fulltime

Chicago, IL

Hybrid (2 Days in a week)

Salary $130-160K Base

Overview

We're looking for a strong Technical Lead who can guide our data engineering efforts while staying hands-on. This role is 60% leadership (managing a small onshore/offshore team) and 40% technical delivery. You will drive modernization across our data warehouse, ETL pipelines, and reporting platforms as we move from on-prem SQL/SSIS toward Azure, Fabric, and modern cloud data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Data Engineering & Leadership

• Lead a distributed team focused on ETL development, pipelines, and DW loads.
• Build and maintain data workflows using SSIS, SQL, Azure Data Factory, Fabric, and Python/Databricks (nice to have).
• Support on-prem SQL Server/SSRS and cloud platforms like Redshift and Microsoft Fabric.
• Stay hands-on-coding, debugging, reviewing, and contributing directly.
  
  

Delivery Ownership

• Manage sprints, backlog, and progress using Scrum and JIRA.
• Own end-to-end delivery from requirements through deployment.
• Identify risks, remove blockers, and ensure quality and timelines.
  
  

Data Quality & Architecture

• Define and enforce clean architecture and data standards.
• Lead efforts around data validation, cleansing, and transformation.
• Introduce frameworks or tooling to improve data quality and observability.
  
  

Collaboration

• Work closely with Product Owners, Architects, Analysts, and Business Leaders.
• Communicate roadmaps, delivery plans, and updates to stakeholders.
• Partner with BI and DBA teams to align reporting, modeling, and infrastructure.
  
  

Modernization

• Drive the transition to modern, cloud-first DW/ETL solutions.
• Support evaluation and implementation of tools such as Fabric, Synapse, Redshift, Terraform.
• Explore automation/AI tooling to improve pipeline reliability and speed.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, or equivalent work experience.
• 7 10 years in data warehousing; 3 years in technical leadership.
• Strong SQL, ETL, and data warehousing experience (SSIS, ADF or similar).
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform) and Redshift or SQL Server.
• Hands-on experience with Python (plus), Power BI/SSRS, and Agile/Scrum.
• Strong communication, ownership, and ability to lead delivery.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Fabric, BigQuery, Databricks, or other modern data platforms.
• Familiarity with DevOps/CI-CD for data pipelines.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and DataOps practices.
• Experience with retail or e-commerce analytics.