Remote Lead Data Engineer

Post Date

Apr 17, 2025

Location

Chesterfield,
Missouri

ZIP/Postal Code

63005
US
Jun 23, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Perm

Category

Data Warehousing

Req #

STL-776958

Pay Rate

$120k - $150k (estimate)

Job Description

Insight Global is looking to add a Lead Data Engineer to our client's team who are headquartered in the St. Louis area but can sit remotely. Our client is currently going through a major acquisition with a deadline of May 2025 for the acquisition to be fully complete. This individual will be overseeing a team of 2 Data Engineers with 40% leadership responsibility and 60% hands on duties. They will be responsible for moving applications from one company to another in addition to ensuring every component has been upgraded and will also be responsible for modernizing the framework as well. They will need someone to come in and lead all development efforts across the enterprise and will interact with multiple different application owners & software vendors so communication is very important. They will be using Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Airflow for ETL pipelines. This person will transform and integrate EBCDIC Mainframe data into Hive and Impala tables using Precisely Connect for Big Data, optimize data transformation processes for performance, scalability, and reliability, and ensure data consistency, accuracy, and quality across the ETL pipelines. This person will function as the point of escalation for ETL loads, data quality issues, and production support issues, monitor ETL workflows and troubleshoot issues to ensure smooth production operations and implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and reporting solutions to improve pipeline reliability. This individual will be responsible for supporting and rebuilding legacy ETL jobs (currently not using ACID transactions) with modern solutions using Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg to support ACID transactions. They will be overseeing design, and implement workflows for automating data pipelines using Apache Airflow as well as establishing and enforcing best practices for ETL code development, version control, and deployment using Azure DevOps.

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Required Skills & Experience

7+ years of Data Engineering experience
3+ years of lead experience
Experience with Apache Spark, Airflow or Iceburg
Python experience
Strong communication skills

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Experience with Precisely Connect
Experience with Hadoop
Experience with Cloudera
Will have hand in production support - would prefer experience with being on a rotation before

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.