Lead Data Engineer - AI-Powered Solutions

Exciting opportunity to join a $100M home services company building the next generation of AI-driven solutions. As the Founding Data Engineer, you will design and implement the entire data infrastructure that powers AI across the business. You'll work with high-volume, messy data from multiple sources, clean and transform it, and make it accessible for advanced analytics and machine learning.Key ResponsibilitiesArchitect and maintain scalable data infrastructure from scratch.Collect and integrate large datasets from APIs, relational databases, and external sources.Build ETL pipelines to clean, transform, and prepare data for AI models.Implement data storage solutions (data lakes, warehouses) for accessibility and performance.Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability across all pipelines.Collaborate with AI/ML teams to deliver production-ready datasets.Technologies & Skills - A combination of the below is expected (not all):Programming: Python (Pandas, NumPy), SQLDatabases: Relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL)Data Warehousing / Lakehouse: Snowflake or Databricks (Delta Lake)ETL & Workflow Orchestration: Apache Airflow, dbtAPI Integration: Strong experience consuming APIs for data ingestion (REST, GraphQL)Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCPData Quality: Great Expectations or similarVersion Control & CI/CD: Git, GitHub ActionsIdeal Candidate4 years in data engineering or similar roles.Proven experience with high-volume data ingestion and cleaning.Strong understanding of data architecture and pipeline design.Comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment.Passionate about building systems that power AI.#zrsepCompany DescriptionWe Met Your Match. Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is a premier Technology Recruiting and Placement firm that services Greater Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino, San Francisco, Boston and New York. Our mission is to connect the area's most innovative and well-respected companies. We provide placement services for Full-time/Direct-hire, Contract-to-Hire, and Contract positions.We strive to create matches which serve both our clients'​ business needs and our candidates'​ career goals. Doing so creates long term business relationships which benefit both parties equally. This is why companies come back to us again to fulfill their Software and IT placement needs, and why candidates refer their most talented colleagues and friends to us. This is the secret to our success.

Salary : $111,300 - $133,600