1d ago

Lead Data Engineer

Saint Louis, MO

$150k-$190k / year

full-timelead Remotemedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts at a digital media company, ensuring reliable data for cross-functional teams. Your core impact is building and optimizing ETL pipelines and data infrastructure that empowers strategic growth. You'll own ingestion, modeling, and transformation to support reporting across business units.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Build and optimize scalable ETL and data lake processes
  • Own ingestion, modeling, and transformation of structured and unstructured data
  • Partner with BI and Analytics to deliver clean, query-ready datasets
  • Maintain database monitoring, anomaly detection, and quality assurance workflows

📋 Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering within fast-paced, cloud-native environments
  • Deep expertise in Python, SQL, Docker, and AWS (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Athena/Presto)
  • Experience building and managing scalable ETL pipelines and data lake infrastructure
  • Familiarity with distributed systems, Spark, and data quality best practices

✨ Nice to Have

  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Looker dashboard experience
  • Mentoring experience

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Profit-sharing bonus
  • 🏥 Competitive benefits
  • 🏖️ Remote-first culture
  • 📈 Performance-based increases

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
  3. 3Hiring Manager Interview· 45 min
  4. 4Offer
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