Lead Data Engineer

The Judge Group • United States, United States • Posted June 14, 2026

About the Role

Qualifications

  • 5-8+ years of experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines, platforms, and distributed data systems 
  • 2+ years of experience leading, mentoring, or managing data engineers in a tech lead, staff-level project lead, engineering manager, or TLM capacity 
  • Strong hands-on experience with industry-standard tools and platforms for ETL/ELT, orchestration, data warehousing, streaming, and BI 
  • Deep understanding of OLTP and OLAP systems, including the ability to design architectures that support transactional, analytical, and operational workloads 
  • Experience building flexible data pipelines across many source and destination types, including databases, APIs, files, queues, event streams, SaaS platforms, and internal systems 
  • Strong experience with both batch and real-time processing patterns, including tradeoffs in latency, reliability, cost, and operational complexity 
  • Experience deploying an...