Lead Data Engineer
Charlotte, NC
Category: Data
Industry: Energy
Standard Hours: Open
Reference ID: JN -092026-108544
Date Posted: 09/09/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/fmnLOX
Description:
Hybrid 3 on in Charlotte, NC
Our client seeks a Lead Data Engineer to own architecture and delivery of scalable data platforms on AWS. The role will lead design of data lakes and warehouses, govern IAM and security, and implement resilient pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL. The leader will mentor engineers, drive standards for quality and observability, and partner with architects and stakeholders to align solutions with enterprise objectives. Experience with Kafka streaming, Terraform, CI/CD, and orchestration is required. Knowledge of Bedrock, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and MLOps will support AI-ready pipelines and responsible AI practices.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $85.00 to $95.00/hr. w2
JN -092026-108544
Responsibilities:
- Lead design, architecture, and implementation of enterprise data solutions across AWS.
- Partner with developers, data scientists, architects, product owners, and stakeholders to define technical strategy and scalable solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineers and promote engineering best practices.
- Drive architectural decisions to ensure scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
- Design and oversee data lake and data warehouse solutions using Lake Formation, Redshift, and Athena.
- Establish standards for data modeling, ETL frameworks, pipeline reliability, monitoring, and operations.
- Lead end-to-end delivery aligned to business requirements, enterprise standards, and regulatory needs.
- Oversee production support of AWS data platforms, perform root-cause analysis, and optimize performance.
- Champion data quality, governance, observability, and stewardship across platforms and teams.
- Identify modernization opportunities using automation and cloud-native technologies.
Experience Requirements:
- 8+ years in data engineering with 5+ years on AWS.
- Expertise with S3, EMR, Glue, Lambda, Athena, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, and Step Functions.
- Experience creating AI applications with AWS Bedrock.
- Strong background in data lakes and warehouses with Lake Formation, Redshift, and Athena.
- Extensive experience with Kafka streaming, preferably Confluent Kafka.
- Advanced SQL and data modeling including dimensional and data vault.
- Deep experience building scalable and resilient pipelines in AWS.
- Hands-on PySpark on EMR and advanced Python development.
- Expertise with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
- CI/CD with GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Deep knowledge of AWS IAM roles, policies, governance, and security best practices.
- Workflow orchestration with Step Functions, Airflow, or similar.
- Leadership in cloud migration, modernization, and enterprise data platforms.
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata, data quality, and observability.
- Proficiency with Generative AI concepts, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and MLOps.
- Experience with Azure or Databricks is a plus.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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