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Lead AWS Data Engineer

DTEL Engineering & Consultants IncOwings Mills, MD🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 16, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Owings Mills, MD, United States
Posted
19 hours ago
SQLAWSETLSnowflakeAgileAirflowApacheData PipelinePythondbt

Job Description

Lead AWS Data Engineer

12+ years of solid hands-on experience in Python, AWS Data Services, DBT, Apache Airflow (on Astronomer platform),

SQL and PySpark

Very Good hands-on knowledge on SQL and Data Warehousing life cycle is an absolute requirement.

Experience in creating data pipelines and orchestrating using DBT & Apache Airflow

Significant experience with data migrations and development of Operational Data Stores, Enterprise Data Warehouses,

Data Lake and Data Marts.

  • Experiencing in fixing performance issues / parallelism, Data model exposure is a must.
  • Good to have: Experience with cloud ETL and ELT in one of the tools like Glue/EMR or any other ELT tool
  • Experience in using Snowflake, DB2, Postgres and other database technologies is plus.
  • Excellent communication skills to liaise with Business & IT stakeholders.
  • Expertise in planning execution of a project and efforts estimation.
  • Exposure to working in Agile ways of working

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of reliable, secure, and highly available data lakes, data marts and data meshes
  • leads the design, development, and maintenance of data integration solutions using Python, AWS Data Services, DBT ensuring data pipeline & data quality
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders and architects to define the enterprise data strategy, data models, and migration Roadmap
  • Translate complex technical constraints into business insights and manage expectations across cross-functional teams
  • Develop, modify, configure & debug existing data pipeline as per the business requirement.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues. Debug, tune and optimize code for optimal performance
  • Manage the new requirements, Review the existing jobs, Perform gap analysis & Fixing performance issues, etc.
  • Guide, coach, and upskill junior and mid-level data engineers on best practices, coding standards, and modern data patterns
  • Document all data flow & mappings, sessions and workflows
  • Ticket handling and problem ticket analysis skills in Agile /POD approach

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