Lead Data Engineer
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Lead Data Engineer at Egen focusing on building and optimizing cloud-native data platforms on Google Cloud. Mentoring engineers and designing sustainable data architectures with a data-first mindset.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and optimize large-scale data platforms on Google Cloud, with BigQuery as the analytical backbone
- Design and build unified batch and streaming pipelines that handle high-volume, mission-critical workloads
- Lead infrastructure-as-code practices, ensuring environments are repeatable, secure, and version-controlled
- Implement open table formats to enable cross-cloud and cross-engine data interoperability
- Establish automated data quality, metadata, and lineage practices across the data estate
- Partner with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to translate business needs into reliable data products
- Mentor engineers, review designs, and raise the bar on engineering standards
Requirements:
- 7+ years in data engineering, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior individual contributor capacity on Google Cloud-based platforms
- **BigQuery (Advanced):** Deep knowledge of BigQuery architecture, including partitioning, clustering, slot management, storage optimization, and query execution tuning
- **Streaming & Batch Pipelines:** Strong hands-on experience building unified pipelines using **Dataflow** (Apache Beam), **Dataproc**, and **Pub/Sub**
- **Infrastructure as Code:** Production experience developing and managing cloud infrastructure with **Terraform**
- **Open Table Formats:** Working knowledge of **Apache Iceberg**, including its role in enabling cloud and engine interoperability (e.g., across BigQuery, Spark, Snowflake)
- **Data Governance:** Experience with **Dataplex** and **Data Catalog** for automated data quality checks, metadata tagging, and column-level lineage from source to destination
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Health Insurance
- Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Sick Leave
- Parental Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- 401 (k) Employer Match
- Employee Referral Bonuses
















