CareerPlan

Data Engineering Lead

Chicago - N. State, USFull-time$94k–$135k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead data engineering teams to build scalable data platforms, AI-enabled solutions, and customer data ecosystems that drive business outcomes.

Role type

Senior IC Data Engineering Lead (Player-Coach)

Builds

Cloud-native data platforms, ELT/ETL pipelines, customer data platforms (CDP), and AI-ready data architectures.

Domain

Data Engineering, Cloud Platforms, Customer Data Platforms, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Data engineering, Cloud platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Redshift), SQL, Python, Data orchestration (dbt, Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Dagster, Prefect), Data modeling, Data governance, CI/CD, Team leadership

Preferred skills

Customer data platforms (Adobe AEP, Salesforce Data Cloud), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), AI/ML technologies, Feature engineering, Pre-sales/Consulting

Technologies

Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift, dbt, Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Dagster, Prefect, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor high-performing data engineering teams; Drive technical delivery of complex data initiatives; Establish engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, observability); Partner with clients to translate business goals into engineering solutions; Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies (AI, cloud-native analytics).

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities