Data Engineering Team Lead

Overview

We are looking for a seasoned Data Engineering Team Lead to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, services, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a "Data Engineering Team Lead", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data, problem solving, and mentorship. 

Contributions

Responsibilities include: 

• Lead, mentor, and provide technical oversight for a team of data engineers, ensuring successful delivery of complex data environment migrations with optimal performance and reliability.
• Oversee and guide the assessment, design, and optimization of ETL processes, workflows, business intelligence tools, and reporting solutions.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for addressing strategic inquiries related to data product customization, integration strategies, enterprise architecture alignment, and overall functionality.
• Define best practices and technical standards for cloud-based database and data warehousing solutions leveraging platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Set technical direction, conducting code reviews and coaching team members in key technologies including Python and AWS services.
• Facilitate Agile methodologies and development practices across the data engineering team, coordinating sprints, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery cycles.
• You will contribute to the growth of our AI & Data Exploitation Practice! 

 

Qualifications

• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
• Master's degree in IT-related field and 12+ years of experience 
• 8+ years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems. 
• 8+ years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as:
  • Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
  • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
  • AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift (or Azure equivalents)
  • Data streaming systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
  • Search tools: Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch
  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring and optimization (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.
• Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis
• Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment
• Experience with data modeling tools and process
• Experience architecting data systems (transactional and warehouses)
• Experience aggregating results and/or compiling information for reporting from multiple datasets
• Experience working in an Agile environment 
• Experience working with Junior Data Engineers and providing mentorship / coaching
• Experience supporting project teams of developers and data scientists who build web-based interfaces, dashboards, reports, and analytics/machine learning models 
• Must hold a relevant certification 
• Must possess an active USDA suitability determination

 

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $130,000 to $160,000.  The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here. 

 

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

 

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

 

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.