Data Engineering Lead
Deckers Outdoor Corporation2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$122k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership for data engineering design, build quality, and delivery standards across enterprise data products.
- Review designs and enforce coding standards across internal and partner engineering teams.
- Own standards for data model design, naming, code review, testing, documentation, and deployment practices.
- Lead analytics-ready data modeling and transformation layers using dbt, including staging, intermediate, and mart layers.
- Build and operate reliable, performant, and cost-efficient cloud-native data pipelines on AWS.
- Establish reusable ingestion, transformation, and delivery patterns.
- Provide technical direction to distributed engineering teams and external delivery partners.
- Coach data engineers and analytics engineers through design reviews, pairing, technical guidance, and knowledge transfer.
- Document engineering patterns, designs, and runbooks to reduce key-person dependency.
- Drive data quality practices including source definitions, freshness monitoring, automated tests, reconciliation, and lineage.
- Lead root cause analysis and remediation for complex production data issues.
- Translate stakeholder needs into scalable data engineering designs and partner with architecture, cloud engineering, and security teams on enterprise requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is preferred.
- 8–10 years of experience building enterprise-grade data platforms, pipelines, and analytics-ready data models.
- At least 3 years providing technical leadership on data engineering delivery, including design review and standards enforcement.
- Production experience using dbt as a primary transformation framework, including model design, testing, documentation, and release practices.
- Strong experience delivering data pipelines on AWS and cloud data warehouse platforms.
- Experience directing distributed engineering teams, including external delivery partners.
- Experience with data quality practices such as automated testing, reconciliation, freshness monitoring, and lineage.
- Preferred experience supporting machine learning and advanced analytics through curated, feature-ready datasets.
- Deep expertise in dimensional modeling, analytics engineering, dbt best practices, and SQL performance tuning.
- Strong AWS data engineering skills involving pipeline reliability, performance tuning, and cost awareness.
- Ability to set and enforce standards across teams without direct management authority.
- Strong design review, technical coaching, knowledge transfer, problem-solving, and root cause analysis skills.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable and repeatable engineering designs.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, with working knowledge of orchestration tooling such as Airflow.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows for pipeline development, refactoring, and documentation.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed, and global environment.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and bonus programs.
- Financial planning and wellbeing programs supporting income protection, expenses, and future investment.
- Time-away programs supporting family needs, health, and personal recharge.
- Employee discounts, community-based programs, and other perks.
- Professional and personal growth and development opportunities.
- Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
- Remote work in the US, limited to approved states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
About Deckers Outdoor Corporation
Deckers Outdoor Corporation (Deckers Brands) designs, markets, and distributes footwear, apparel, and accessories for lifestyle and performance consumers, selling through direct-to-consumer e-commerce and retail stores as well as wholesale partners. Its portfolio includes UGG, HOKA, and Teva. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Goleta, California, Deckers is a public company traded on the NYSE.