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# Lead Staff Data Engineer | Phoenix

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment
- **Location:** Phoenix, AZ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Data Ingestion, Delivery Pipeline, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=580de7cda6e652b3

## About the Role

The ideal person for this position will have strong prior history building out either a data warehouse or similar-complexity project at a large scale. While this will involve some leadership & people management elements, it is primarily a hands-on technical engineering position and will require deep skills in ingestion frameworks, architecture, pipeline creation & optimization, warehouse design, and similar.
This is a hybrid position in Phoenix, Arizona Required Skills & Experience

 * 10+ Years of experience in Data infrastructure
 + Warehousing
 + Engineering
 + Data PIpelines
 + Strategy
 + Ingestion Pipelines/ETL, Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

## Description

We are searching for an experienced Data Engineering and Architecture leader to oversee a large data warehouse build-out. This position is a split between a greenfield environment new build while maintaining a legacy environment. This will be heavily focused on data ingestion, pipelines, and warehousing.


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