1d ago

Lead Data Engineer

Kansas City, KS

$150k-$190k / year

full-timelead Remotemedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead scalable data engineering efforts for a data-driven digital media company that reaches over 30M monthly visitors. You'll own data infrastructure and empower cross-functional teams with reliable, actionable data to drive strategic growth.

🎯 What You'll Do

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

📋 Requirements

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience in 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

  • Experience with Looker dashboards
  • Mentoring peers and shaping engineering culture

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 💰 Base salary $150,000-$190,000
  • 📈 Profit-sharing bonus
  • 🏖️ Remote-first culture
  • 🏥 Competitive benefits package

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-3 weeks · AI estimate

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