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Lead Data Systems Engineer
Posted: 07/13/2026
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 28164
Pay Rate: $150000 - $180000
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Job Description
LEAD DATA SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Dallas–Fort Worth Metro Area | On-site
Full-Time, Direct Hire
$160, 000–$180, 000 base;exceptional candidates may be considered above target;+ annual bonus potential
A large enterprise technology organization is hiring a senior hands-on engineer to lead the design and delivery of a new data platform, supporting services, and selected analytical applications. This is not a pure architecture position. You will set technical direction, write production code, guide other engineers, and help move the platform from initial design through reliable operation.
What You’ll Do
- Define scalable patterns for analytical storage, batch and event-driven ingestion, data processing, and distributed query workloads.
- Build and optimize Python-based pipelines and services that support high-volume data processing.
- Design APIs and service interfaces that make governed data available to reporting and internal applications.
- Contribute to data-intensive web capabilities using a current JavaScript/TypeScript stack.
- Establish practical standards for data modeling, quality, security, automated testing, deployment, and operational visibility.
- Diagnose performance and reliability issues across data and application layers.
- Lead architecture reviews, document key decisions, and mentor engineers.
What You’ll Bring
- 8+ years of data engineering, data-platform, or closely related software-engineering experience, including senior technical leadership.
- Strong production experience with Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with lakehouse architecture, open table formats, cloud object storage, partition design, schema evolution, and versioned data management.
- Experience with both batch and event-driven data processing, plus distributed query or large-scale analytical workloads.
- Experience designing production APIs, working with relational data stores, and contributing to modern web applications.
- Experience deploying and operating cloud-based, containerized services with automated delivery and monitoring practices.
- A record of making sound architecture decisions, improving engineering standards, and mentoring other engineers.
- U.S. Work authorization.
This role is best suited to an engineer who enjoys owning a broad technical surface—from data architecture and production pipelines through the services and applications that make the platform useful.
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