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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Neural Strategic Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Architecture, Data Cleansing, Information Engineering, Data Integration, Machine Learning, Data Streaming, Snowflake, Build Management, Data Management, Data Lakehouse, Video Streaming, Virtual Agents, Domain Driven Design, User Identification, Databricks
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/43b96a6d-2ec2-4984-a73a-b9721dc25247

## About the Role

* 10+ years of Data Engineering experience.
 * 3+ years in a Lead, Principal, or Architect-level capacity.
 * Extensive experience building modern cloud-based data platforms.
 * Demonstrated success building greenfield data initiatives from concept through production.
 * Strong expertise in: Snowflake, Databricks, Data Lakehouse Architectures, Streaming Technologies, Domain-Driven Design, Data Product Development
 * Experience designing and implementing: Customer 360 platforms, Identity Resolution solutions, Customer Identity Graphs, Recommendation data architectures

Pluses:

 * Experience with: Real-time customer personalization, Recommendation platforms, Customer analytics ecosystems, Feature store design, and ML data preparation frameworks
 * Exposure to AI agent initiatives and semantic data architectures.

## Description

* seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to lead the design and delivery of next-generation Customer 360, Identity Graph, and AI-ready data platform initiatives
 * Lead development of Customer 360 capabilities by integrating data across hospitality, gaming, digital, loyalty, and customer service platforms.
 * Design and build high-scale batch and streaming data pipelines.
 * Develop domain-oriented data products that support machine learning and AI initiatives.


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