Lead Data Engineer

Inspire Brands, Inc.$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering
  • 5+ years of advanced SQL expertise
  • 5+ years focused on ELT design and development
  • 3+ years with CI/CD tools in DevOps models
  • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Experience with Snowflake is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor data engineering team members
  • Design and maintain data management platforms and services
  • Develop and document AI solutions from concept to production
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code and automated testing
  • Foster a culture of craftsmanship in engineering
  • Collaborate with product managers to align with business needs
  • Develop and refine data engineering best practices

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technologies
  • Collaborative and innovative engineering culture
  • Professional growth through mentoring and presentations
  • Involvement in complex and meaningful data projects
  • Flexible work arrangements with significant onsite presence
Full Job Description

Inspire Brands is hiring a Lead Data and AI Engineer for the Enterprise Data Organization to design, build and manage data pipelines (Data ingestion, data transformation, data distribution, quality rules, data storage etc.) using cutting edge AI solutions (Generative AI, Agentic AI, etc.). The candidate will need to possess strong technical, analytical, programming and critical thinking skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Lead/guide multiple technical data engineering team members
  • Lead by example – designing, building, maintaining and using of our platforms and services to manage data
  • Design, develop, deploy including documenting AI solutions from concept to operationalization
  • Demonstrate and guide implementation of Infrastructure as code, automated testing and modern observability strategies
  • Responsible for growing an engineering culture of craftsmanship through mentoring, technical leadership as well as formal and informal presentations across data teams at Inspire
  • Work closely with Product owners/managers to understand the business needs
  • Collaborate with architects, data modelers and other team members to design Data and AI jobs to fulfill business needs
  • Lead sessions with data engineers and provide necessary guidance to solve technical challenges
  • Develop new and/or enhance existing data processes (Data Ingest, Data Transformation, Data Store, Data Management, Data Quality)
  • Actively contribute towards setting up and refining data engineering best practices
  • Help data engineers adhere to coding standards, best practices, etc. and produce production deployable code that is robust, scalable and reusable
  • Document technical artifacts for data engineering solutions
  • Stay up-to-date with latest AI trends and integrate emerging technologies to drive improved system performance with balanced operational pragmatism

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS

  • 8+ years of experience in a data engineering role required
  • 5+ years of experience with advanced SQL queries, scripts, stored procedures, materialized views, and views
  • 5+ years of hands-on design and development experience in the data space specifically focused on ELT to load data and perform transformations in databases
  • 3+ years of experience with DevOps Models utilizing CI/CD tools
  • Experience in one of the cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP is required, Azure specifically is preferred
  • Demonstrated hands on experience with Python is required
  • Snowflake experience a plus

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, OR ABILITIES

  • Strong ability to use analytical SQL functions
  • Ability to delivery AI/ML projects from POC to production and support leveraging GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, AI Search, Temporal, Pydantic AI, etc
  • Strong expertise in LLMs building agents: open/closed-source models, advanced prompt engineering techniques, RAG, Agentic AI, document processing, vector/hybrid search, guardrails, observability & monitoring, and LLM evaluation
  • Ability to work hands-on in a Cloud environment of Azure Cloud Platform (ADLS, Blob)
  • Strong skills one of the ETL tools like Informatica, Talend,Azure Data Factory, and BI tools like Tableau preferred
  • Strong skills with orchestration tools like ApacheAirflow
  • Expert ability to analyze data models
  • Strong skills performance tuning and scaling of services
  • Good interpersonal skills; comfort and competence in dealing with different teams within the organization
  • Skilled leveraging Agile practices and methodologies

This position is based in our Atlanta Support Center, with an expected on-site presence of 80%.


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