What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Data Engineer position at Vacation HR?
The Lead Data Engineer owns Awayday's ingestion and pipeline layer end to end, from each source system through to the landing and staging layers in Snowflake that every domain builds on. It is a foundational mandate. You will build and run the pipelines that bring each source system into the warehouse, direct the offshore engineering team that builds alongside you, and hold the ingestion layer to a standard of reliability the rest of the team can depend on as the company continues to grow.
This is the engineering counterpart to our analysts. Where they own the models and metrics a business domain depends on, you own the data getting there reliably, on schedule, and to a standard the rest of the team can build on top of. The ideal candidate is a seasoned, hands-on data engineer, someone who pairs deep command of SQL, Python, and cloud-warehouse ingestion with the judgment to set standards and the leadership to bring an offshore team along.
The core of the role is building and running the ingestion pipelines, steering the offshore pod's delivery through its tech lead, and owning pipeline reliability. It also underpins our AI initiatives, since the governed data this seat lands and stages is the foundation our agentic assistant retrieves from.