Position: Lead Data Engineer (Azure, Snowflake, ETL, PySpark)

Location: Local Remote in Charlotte, NC

Work Model: Remote on EST Hours

Duration: Contract to Permanent Full Time Hire (6 month CTH)

Hourly Rate: 62/hr to 68/hr (W2 or Corp to Corp)

Must Haves: Azure, Snowflake, ETL, PySpark

What You Will Do:

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership for key company initiatives
• Lead design and development efforts for scalable data pipelines and solutions leveraging Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and Apache Iceberg.
• Collaborate with business teams, architects, business analysts, source system owners, and business stakeholders to ensure enterprise data requirements are met.
• Guide and mentor data engineers to align with organizational standards and best practices.
• Drive critical conversations across platform, business, and technical teams to ensure timely and efficient delivery of projects.
• Lead data modeling efforts to design and optimize schemas, ensuring data integrity and performance.
• Oversee the documentation of engineering processes to ensure knowledge retention and scalability.
• Actively participate in architectural and strategic decisions while ensuring compliance with data governance, security, and privacy requirements.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for automating deployment and ensuring operational excellence.
• Act as the primary point of contact for cross-regional teams, facilitating knowledge transfer and resolving dependencies.

What Gets You The Job:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience (12 - 15+ years) in a data engineering role, with expertise in designing and building ETL pipelines, data models, and warehouses.
• Strong proficiency in Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, SQL, Python, and Spark.
• Experience working with Apache Iceberg and distributed computing frameworks.
• Strong communication skills & demonstrated leadership ability to manage relationships across cross-functional teams and global stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and DevOps practices for automation.
• Retail industry experience with familiarity in processing transaction data, inventory data, and customer insights.

Please send your resume to Dave Lim, Senior Technical Recruiter for immediate consideration.

Irvine Technology Corporation (ITC) is a leading provider of technology and staffing solutions for IT, Security, Engineering, and Interactive Design disciplines servicing startups to enterprise clients, nationally. We pride ourselves in the ability to introduce you to our intimate network of business and technology leaders – bringing you opportunity coupled with personal growth, and professional development! Join us. Let us catapult your career!

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