Lead Data Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Data Engineer based in the United States.

This is a leadership-focused data engineering role combining technical ownership, team development, and strategic business partnership.
You’ll lead a Data Engineering team while remaining hands-on with architecture, pipelines, infrastructure, and complex technical challenges.
The role is responsible for building reliable, scalable data foundations that support reporting, analytics, and data-driven products across the organization.
You’ll work closely with Finance, Data & Analytics, and other stakeholders to turn business requirements into practical and sustainable technical solutions.
You’ll establish engineering standards around architecture, modeling, reliability, performance, automation, and data quality.
The environment values ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
This is an opportunity to shape both the technical direction of a growing data function and the development of the people behind it.