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# Hiring: Lead Data Engineer at Charlotte, NC

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Charlotte, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Business Analytics Applications, Big Data, Cloud Database, Data Governance, DevOps, Systems Development Life Cycle, DataOps, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Data Ingestion
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us9993280f42cbb22484410a4c254056c1

## About the Role

* 8+ years of Technology Delivery / Program Management / Technical Project Leadership experience
 * 5+ years delivering cloud-based Data & Analytics solutions
 * Hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
 * Proven experience leading end-to-end delivery of large-scale data platform initiatives
 * Strong experience managing multiple concurrent projects across data ingestion, transformation, storage, analytics, and reporting
 * Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data Governance, and Business stakeholders

Strong understanding of:

 * Agile methodologies
 * Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
 * DevOps practices
 * DataOps practices



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