AT&T

Lead Data/AI Engineering - Platform Engineer

AT&T$158K — $237K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or application development.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with Snowflake or Databricks is beneficial.
  • Familiarity with API development patterns (REST, GraphQL) and cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
  • Knowledge of container technologies like Docker and orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build data pipelines and models for reporting and predictive analytics.
  • Architect and develop secure backend services and APIs with modern web technologies.
  • Implement software engineering practices, including automation and continuous integration.
  • Optimize cloud architectures for performance, security, and scalability on Azure.
  • Lead engineering initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage technical risks.
  • Establish monitoring and operational processes for data products and applications.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
  • Tuition reimbursement to support ongoing education.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule, totaling at least 32 days per year.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave to support work-life balance.
  • Long-term and short-term disability benefits.
  • Employee assistance programs for mental and emotional support.
  • Discounts on AT&T services, including mobile and internet plans.
Full Job Description
This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

Overall Purpose: Architect, develop, deploy, and optimize secure, scalable data platforms and analytical applications that transform trusted enterprise data into reliable decision support solutions. Apply modern data engineering, software development, cloud architecture, and operational practices to move analytical products from prototype through supported production use.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: Typical tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Data Platform Engineering: Design and build reliable data pipelines, transformations, data models, semantic models, and serving layers that support reporting, predictive analytics, AI capabilities, and interactive applications. Implement orchestration, validation, reconciliation, data quality controls, lineage, and data contracts across source systems and consuming applications.
  • Application and API Development: Architect and develop secure backend services, APIs, and modern analytical applications using Python, SQL, Streamlit, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or comparable technologies. Create reusable services and application components that provide intuitive, responsive, and accessible experiences.
  • Testing, Integration, and Deployment: Apply software engineering practices including automation, version control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and continuous integration and delivery. Containerize and deploy applications using Docker and approved cloud services while addressing environment configuration, authentication, authorization, secrets management, and security requirements.
  • Cloud Scalability and Operational Reliability: Design and optimize Azure or comparable cloud architectures based on security, reliability, scalability, performance, supportability, and cost. Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, health checks, recovery processes, release controls, and operational documentation for applications, APIs, pipelines, and data products.
  • Technical Leadership: Lead complex engineering initiatives from requirements through production operation. Partner with analytics, AI, platform, security, architecture, and business teams to manage technical risk, establish reusable engineering standards, mentor team members, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Technologies: Demonstrate advanced experience with Python and SQL, modern data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks, API development patterns such as REST or GraphQL, container technologies such as Docker, and cloud platforms such as Azure. Experience with Streamlit, React, TypeScript, Node.js, FastAPI, orchestration tools, infrastructure as code, and data observability is preferred.

Job Contribution: An experienced professional, recognized as an expert, who creatively resolves complex data, application, and platform challenges using broad and in depth technical knowledge. Leads significant projects with strategic autonomy, influences architecture and business decisions, mentors less experienced staff, and frequently collaborates with senior leadership.

Supervisor: No

TCP Career Step Differentiator: Managing very complex work related to data engineering, application development, cloud platforms, and AI operationalization. Solving major business problems through secure, scalable, and reliable production solutions.

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree desired in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered. Five or more years of related experience. Certification is required in some areas.

Our Lead Data/AI Engineering jobs earn between $158,200.00 - $237,400.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Caregiver Leave
  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Dallas, Texas

Salary Range:

$158,200.00 - $237,400.00

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203,000 employees
Market Cap
$131.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$5.1 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+0.6%
Revenue
$171.7 billion
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