Lead Data Engineer

Location: Los Angeles CA - Hybrid (3 days/week in office)Duration: 6 months contract (potential to go longer)Job SummaryOur Direct Client is seeking a developer with excellent data engineering skills, hands‐on experience in data migrations, and data modeling to join their product development team. The product development team designs and builds software experiences for mobile and web that support client's diverse, global, and high‐energy agents, executives, artists, and business partners.ResponsibilitiesLead data engineering execution in support of complex application development initiatives, ensuring data integrations, pipelines, and models align with established architectural standardsWill work collaboratively with other engineers to design, build, and execute data migrations between systems, including data mapping, transformation, validation, and reconciliation to help ensure data accuracy and completeness across environments.Use software development skills in an agile environment to also develop new data pipelines, APIs, and data management tools and will support the end‐to‐end lifecycle: design, deployment, test, operations, monitoring and support.RequirementsLanguages and FrameworksProficiency in Python with a history of delivering production pipelines.Experience building production scripts or services used for data movement and validation.Experience with the Azure data stack (Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Tabular Model / DAX, Microsoft Fabric) is preferred, though strong experience with comparable technologies is also valued.SQL and NoSQL production experience.Expertise with SQL Server and MongoDB.Should be comfortable modeling data, analyzing source and target schemas, writing complex queries, and resolving data quality issues during migration.ToolsExperience maintaining projects using a distributed version control system such as Git and GitHub.Experience in automated pipeline deployment and schemas into production environments would be great.Experienced with agile methods and the concepts behind continuous delivery.Passionate about developing migrations, data structures, pipelines, and APIs - experience with security, testing, performance, JSON, and REST.Experience with data quality, test strategy, and test automation.EducationBS in Computer Science and a minimum of five years of experience delivering production solutionsFocusMinimum 7+ years working in a Data Engineer Lead rolePassion for and experience shipping and maintaining production software products and data migrations.Strong attention to detail, solving problems, simplicity, quality, and moving quickly.#J-18808-Ljbffr