Lead Data Engineer Job at Apptad Inc, California

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  • Apptad Inc
  • California

Job Description

Lead Data Engineer

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Data Bricks , DBT , Airflow ,

Roles & Responsibilities

Lead Data Engineer

Experience

8 15 Years

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Role Overview

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Data Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Databricks, dbt, and Python, and a proven track record of leading and executing data platform migration and modernization programs. The ideal candidate will have experience migrating legacy data warehouses, ETL platforms, and cloud/on-prem data ecosystems to a modern Databricks Lakehouse architecture using dbt-based transformation frameworks. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, solution design capabilities, and the ability to mentor engineering teams while driving enterprise-scale data modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Data Engineering & Development

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, SQL, and Python.

Develop and optimize ELT/ETL processes for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.

Implement robust data quality, monitoring, and reconciliation frameworks.

Build reusable data engineering components and frameworks.

Data Platform Migration & Modernization

Lead migration of legacy data platforms, data warehouses, and ETL ecosystems to Databricks Lakehouse.

Transform existing ETL workloads to modern ELT patterns using dbt.

Analyze source environments and define migration approaches, roadmap, and execution strategy.

Drive code conversion, performance optimization, and workload modernization efforts.

Databricks Engineering

Develop solutions leveraging:

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks Workflows

Structured Streaming

Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold)

Optimize Spark jobs and Databricks workloads for performance and cost efficiency.

dbt Development

Build and maintain dbt models, macros, tests, and documentation.

Implement incremental processing and reusable transformation frameworks.

Establish data lineage, testing, and CI/CD best practices.

Work closely with business and analytics teams to build trusted datasets.

Leadership & Collaboration

Lead a team of data engineers and developers.

Perform code reviews and enforce engineering standards.

Collaborate with archit ects, produc t owners, business analysts, and stakeholders.

Mentor junior engineers and drive adoption of best practices.

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