Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

Tentative YOE

8–12 years

Positions (FTE)

1

Owns the technical design of the bronze/silver/gold Snowflake QM data foundation and directs the junior data engineers building it.

Responsibilities

• Own the medallion architecture design (bronze/silver/gold) for the QM data foundation on Snowflake
• Define ELT/CDC pipeline patterns from SAP QM/SD source objects and data quality/contract standards
• Set standards for dbt (or equivalent) transformation tooling and lineage/cataloguing practice
• Review pipelines and models built by the junior data engineers; own data quality sign-off
• Co-ordinate with the Solution Architect and SAP QM Functional Consultant on source-to-target mapping

Requirements

• 8–12 years in data engineering, with deep hands-on Snowflake experience (SQL, Snowpark, Streams/Tasks, Iceberg)
• Proven medallion architecture design and delivery, ideally with SAP source systems
• dbt or equivalent transformation tooling; data quality framework design
• Comfortable owning architecture decisions and directing a small engineering team