Lead AI Data Engineer

Insight Global is seeking a Lead AI Data Engineer to sit hybrid at a Cybersecurity client in Frisco, Texas. You will join their eCommerce Operational Intelligence team, building enterprise-scale data pipelines and analytics foundations (SQL, Spark/PySpark, ETL/ELT) that produce reliable operational insights and measurable business impact.

You will drive the transformation of eCommerce operational analytics and real-time monitoring by building scalable data pipelines, AI-powered insights, and intelligent dashboards. This role leads AI proof-of-concepts and contributes to production-grade solutions that improve platform reliability, accelerate root-cause identification, enhance engineering productivity, and strengthen operational intelligence across their eCommerce ecosystem.

Day to Day: -Build and operate production ETL/ELT pipelines processing millions of eCommerce events daily and order trends. -Write and tune complex SQL for operational analytics, KPIs, and reporting. -Design analytics-ready schemas and data models for performance and scale. -Troubleshoot pipelines, microservices, and APIs; apply observability to isolate root causes. -Integrate data across eCommerce, MarTech, and operational systems into unified insights. -Build AI-driven anomaly detection/notification.

10+ years building and architecting large-scale applications and distributed systems. -5+ years building production data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and analytics platforms. -Applied AI to operational intelligence (anomaly detection/alerting, forecasting, insights). -Expert SQL (complex queries, performance tuning) -Spark/PySpark in production (Spark SQL, optimization) -Strong Python (testing, packaging, best practices) -ETL/ELT pipelines (orchestration, monitoring, error handling) -Databricks & Delta Lake (Jobs, Unity Catalog, Medallion) -Analytics data modeling (star/snowflake schemas) -Distributed systems (APIs, microservices, event-driven) -Production observability & troubleshooting -AWS (S3, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, OpenSearch, QuickSight), BI (Power BI, Tableau, Grafana), GenAI (RAG, vector DBs, LangChain, Bedrock)

(This role can pay $200,000 - 220,000 based on years of experience)., Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.