What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Data Engineer - Delivery Lead position at Purple Drive Technologies LLC?
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Delivery Leadership & Governance
Program Delivery Oversight - Lead multi-wave migration of Teradata workloads across gaming, loyalty, property operations, digital, F&B, entertainment, and enterprise analytics domains, along with other migration activities into EDH 2.0.
Governance & Reporting - Establish disciplined delivery governance aligned to client's PMO, including RAID management, executive status reporting, dependency tracking, and operational readiness checkpoints.
Stakeholder Management - Serve as a primary onsite interface for business and technology stakeholders, translating delivery progress, risks, and decisions into business-relevant language.
Risk & Issue Management - Proactively manage risks tied to high-traffic resort periods, major entertainment weekends, operational dependencies, data quality, platform readiness, and downstream analytics adoption.
Technical Program Leadership
EDH 2.0 Migration Strategy - Oversee migration planning and execution for enterprise data warehouse workloads, including Teradata tables, views, SQL logic, stored procedures, ETL/ELT dependencies, and analytics consumption patterns.
Azure Data Architecture - Guide delivery alignment to target-state Azure data architecture, including Azure Data Lake Storage, curated data zones, secure data-sharing patterns, and business-ready consumption layers.
Databricks Delivery - Ensure Azure Databricks pipelines, Delta Lake patterns, and medallion-oriented engineering practices support scalable analytics, reporting, personalization, forecasting, and enterprise decisioning use cases.
Data Analysis & Quality - Drive data profiling, reconciliation, validation, and KPI alignment across source and target platforms to support business confidence and production readiness.
Team, Financial & Partner Management
Onshore/Offshore Coordination - Manage Capgemini delivery teams across architecture, data engineering, data analysis, QA, lineage, data modeling, and release coordination.
Resource Planning - Align capacity, skill mix, and work allocation to migration waves, delivery priorities, and business-domain sequencing.
Financial Governance - Support forecasting, burn tracking, scope management, and commercial discipline for a professional-services engagement.
Vendor & Partner Coordination - Coordinate effectively with Microsoft Azure, Databricks, client's technology partners, and other delivery stakeholders to remove blockers and maintain execution momentum.
Skills and experience
Teradata Modernization - High preference for leading or managing large Teradata modernization, migration, or decommissioning programs in complex enterprise environments.
Azure Data Platform - Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Azure data services, including Azure Data Lake Storage, secure cloud data patterns, orchestration, and enterprise-scale cloud migration practices.
Azure Databricks - Practical understanding of Azure Databricks, Spark-based engineering, Delta Lake, medallion architecture, and scalable data pipeline delivery.
SQL & Data Analysis - Strong SQL fluency and ability to guide teams through data profiling, mapping, reconciliation, transformation logic review, and issue resolution.
Data Architecture - Experience aligning migration delivery to target-state data architecture, curated analytics layers, semantic consumption patterns, governance expectations, and operational controls.
Complex Program Management - Experience leading large, multi-workstream delivery programs with onshore/offshore teams and multiple business and technology stakeholders.
Executive Communication - Skilled at presenting complex data and technology topics in clear, business-friendly language for senior client stakeholders.
Delivery Discipline - Strong ability to manage milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, scope, quality, release readiness, and operational transition.
Consulting Mindset - Ability to operate as a trusted professional-services leader focused on measurable outcomes, not solely staff augmentation or activity-based execution.
Domain Adaptability - Ability to quickly understand client's operating context across gaming, hospitality, F&B, entertainment, digital, and enterprise analytics domains.