Lead Data Engineer 2026- US, COL, UK
Aimpoint Digital14 days ago
Remote, United States +3 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Advise clients and stakeholders on translating business questions into AI-ready data architectures.
- Design and implement cloud data warehouses, lakehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration jobs, and analytical layers.
- Build semantic layers, metrics layers, knowledge graphs, and data models supporting AI analytics and natural-language querying.
- Develop production-ready data engineering code for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Use Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, and cloud-native tooling to deliver scalable data solutions.
- Apply AI-assisted techniques for data exploration, quality checks, schema generation, documentation, lineage, and transformation.
- Collaborate with analytics, data science, and ML teams to productionize AI-enabled analytics, features, and inference pipelines without developing ML models or algorithms.
- Independently manage client workstreams and lead small teams of one to two people.
- Contribute to internal accelerators, reusable architectures, engineering practices, and business development.
- Travel as needed for consulting engagements.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience with relational databases and query languages.
- At least 5 years of experience building production data pipelines across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- At least 5 years of data modeling experience, such as star schema, entity-relationship, or data vault modeling.
- At least 5 years of experience writing clean, maintainable code in Python, Scala, Java, or similar languages.
- Experience with stakeholder management, customer collaboration, software engineering best practices, and DevOps.
- Experience with Databricks or Snowflake is required.
- Ability to independently manage a workstream and lead a small one- to two-person team.
- Preferred experience with dbt Core/Cloud, AI engineering tools, cloud ETL/ELT tools, AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, analytics data preparation, data science workflows, and consulting.
- One or more Databricks or Snowflake certifications are strongly preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and willingness to travel.
Benefits
- Fully remote within the US and Colombia.
- Atlanta-based applicants may work from the headquarters in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and applicants in London or Medellin may work from company offices.
Tech Stack
Apache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksdbtDockerGitGoogle Cloud PlatformInformaticaJavaKubernetesPythonScalaSnowflakeSQLTalend
Categories
Data Engineering
About Aimpoint Digital
Aimpoint Digital is a data, AI, analytics, and operations research consulting and solution engineering firm that designs, builds, and operationalizes enterprise-grade data and AI platforms, decision intelligence solutions, optimization systems, and production AI applications for growth-stage companies and large enterprises in the US and UK. Its work spans AI architecture, platform engineering, and advanced analytics leveraging tools such as Snowflake and Databricks. Founded in 2017, the company is a private partnership headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.