Lead Data Engineer - GCP, Python, SQL

The Lead Data Engineer provides technical oversight, architectural direction, and hands-on guidance to an analytics data engineering team. Working directly on high-priority customer and marketing analytics projects, this role ensures high data quality, security, and scalable infrastructure design across Google Cloud Platform environments., * Lead, supervise, and mentor assigned data engineering team members to meet project deliverables.

• Design, construct, and maintain maintainable, scalable code to load and manipulate data in the enterprise data warehouse.
• Provide proactive technical oversight to application architecture and development teams to foster code reuse, scalability, and stability.
• Document critical operational workflows, system dependencies, and data management responsibilities.
• Ensure data quality, privacy, completeness, and integrity across the entire data lifecycle.
• Facilitate active communication across project teams, technical leadership, and business stakeholders.

• Hands-on experience developing within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• In-depth knowledge of SQL or NoSQL with practical experience using relational, analytic, or scalable document stores.
• Extensive Python programming background tailored toward building ETL workflows and data-driven solutions.
• Strong expertise with big data distributed computing engines such as Apache Spark or Hadoop.
• Solid grasp of data modeling principles, including dimensional modeling and star schemas.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins).
• Proven experience applying software design patterns to author reusable, high-quality code and division libraries.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to open-source machine learning frameworks like sklearn, SparkML, or H2O.
• Direct domain knowledge or business acumen within insurance or financial service industries.
• Practical experience authoring and consuming web services and REST APIs., * Python: 6 years (Required)
• SQL: 6 years (Required)
• Google Cloud Platform: 5 years (Required)

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

• This is a hybrid position in Boston on Congress Street requiring 2-3 days a week on site. Are you open to this hybrid arrangement for this position?