Lead Data Engineer
Atlanta, GA, United States
Company Description
Cypress Global Services (CGS) is a growing Information Technology (IT) Services firm based in North Houston, TX. Specializing in IT Consulting and Staffing Solutions, CGS provides our clients with industry-leading IT Specialists nationwide for all types of placements, i.e. Temp, Contract, and Full-time.
Job Description
Ensuring that data flows seamlessly
Ownership of defining, documenting, and operating overall data strategy, including schema definitions, system contracts, security, compliance, and SLAs
Evangelize data strategy among stakeholders such as business users and various data teams through design, documentation, review, and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals
Build and lead a cross cutting team responsible for operational excellence of data platform including change management process, SDLC and CICD
Own and implement technical roadmap for continuous improvement of data platform, including tech stack upgrade, cost optimization and compliance requirements
Own and operate automated operational test cases for performance, security, and reliability of data platform
Responsible for growing and inspiring a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
Cultivate a healthy, collaborative technology culture that is in line with company values
Qualifications Experience & Expertise with concepts like Data Mess, Lake house, Data orchestration, ETL/ELT, Cloud Data warehousing
Experience with ingesting, transforming and curating structure and unstructured data set
Experience with building analytic solutions applicable to Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, and Marketing organizations in an enterprise
Experience implementing operational best practices such as monitoring, alerting, metadata management, data cataloging and data modeling
Experience managing, measuring, improving data quality in an OLAP/OLTP
Communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights
Experience working in agile development environment
Experience working with cloud providers, both on the IAAS side (Azure), and in the data and analytics space (Snowflake, etc)
Experience in working in large teams using CI/CD and agile methodologies
Minimum of 12+ years of experience in IT, majority in information system design
Minimum of 5 years as a Data Architect with progressively increasing responsibility
Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Science Bachelor's in computer science Required
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US (no Visa sponsorship) to be considered
Additional Information
This is a full-time role with our client. The candidate has to be in Atlanta, GA or willing to relocate. Client will not sponsor work-visa. Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the US. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.