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Lead Data Engineer

Tiger Analytics
Tiger Analytics Salary
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/5/2026
Tiger Analytics is a fast-growing advanced analytics consulting firm. Our consultants bring deep expertise in Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning and AI. We are the trusted analytics partner for multiple Fortune 500 companies, enabling them to generate business value from data. Our business value and leadership has been recognized by various market research firms, including Forrester and Gartner. We are looking for top-notch talent as we continue to build the best global analytics consulting team in the world.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join our data team. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines, data integration processes, and data infrastructure using Dataiku. You will collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure efficient data flow and support data-driven decision making across the organization.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
  • Work with a team of developers with deep experience in machine learning, distributed microservices, and full stack systems
  • Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python and Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing services such as Redshift and Snowflake
  • Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community
  • Collaborate with digital product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based solutions that drive powerful experiences to help millions of Americans achieve financial empowerment
  • Perform unit tests and conduct reviews with other team members to make sure your code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance
  • Optimize data pipelines for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness, leveraging AWS best practices and cloud-native technologies
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver scalable data solutions
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 8 years of experience building and deploying large-scale data processing pipelines in a production environment
  • Hands-on experience in designing and building data pipelines
  • 4 years of experience with a public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
  • 4 years experience with Distributed data/computing tools (MapReduce, Hadoop, Hive, EMR, Kafka, Spark, Gurobi, or MySQL)
  • 4 year experience working on real-time data and streaming applications
  • 4 years of experience with NoSQL implementation (Mongo, Cassandra)
  • 4 years of data warehousing experience (Redshift or Snowflake)
  • 4 years of experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting

2 years of experience with Agile engineering practices

Benefits

This position offers an excellent opportunity for significant career development in a fast-growing and challenging entrepreneurial environment with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

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