Lead Data Systems Engineer

LEAD DATA SYSTEMS ENGINEER

DallasFort Worth Metro Area On-site

Full-Time Direct Hire

$160000$180000 base; exceptional candidates may be considered above target; annual bonus potential

A large enterprise technology organization is hiring a senior hands-on engineer to lead the design and delivery of a new data platform supporting services and selected analytical applications. This is not a pure architecture position. You will set technical direction write production code guide other engineers and help move the platform from initial design through reliable operation.

What Youll Do

• Define scalable patterns for analytical storage batch and event-driven ingestion data processing and distributed query workloads.
• Build and optimize Python-based pipelines and services that support high-volume data processing.
• Design APIs and service interfaces that make governed data available to reporting and internal applications.
• Contribute to data-intensive web capabilities using a current JavaScript/TypeScript stack.
• Establish practical standards for data modeling quality security automated testing deployment and operational visibility.
• Diagnose performance and reliability issues across data and application layers.
• Lead architecture reviews document key decisions and mentor engineers.

What Youll Bring

• 8 years of data engineering data-platform or closely related software-engineering experience including senior technical leadership.
• Strong production experience with Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with lakehouse architecture open table formats cloud object storage partition design schema evolution and versioned data management.
• Experience with both batch and event-driven data processing plus distributed query or large-scale analytical workloads.
• Experience designing production APIs working with relational data stores and contributing to modern web applications.
• Experience deploying and operating cloud-based containerized services with automated delivery and monitoring practices.
• A record of making sound architecture decisions improving engineering standards and mentoring other engineers.
• U.S. work authorization.

This role is best suited to an engineer who enjoys owning a broad technical surfacefrom data architecture and production pipelines through the services and applications that make the platform useful.