Lead Data Engineer - Cypress Global Services, Inc

Cypress Global Services (CGS) is a growing Information Technology (IT) Services firm based in North Houston, TX. Specializing in IT Consulting and Staffing Solutions, CGS provides our clients with industry-leading IT Specialists nationwide for all types of placements, i.e. Temp, Contract, and Full-time.

• Ensuring that data flows seamlessly
• Ownership of defining, documenting, and operating overall data strategy, including schema definitions, system contracts, security, compliance, and SLAs
• Evangelize data strategy among stakeholders such as business users and various data teams through design, documentation, review, and cross team negotiations to support strategic business and technology goals
• Build and lead a cross cutting team responsible for operational excellence of data platform including change management process, SDLC and CICD
• Own and implement technical roadmap for continuous improvement of data platform, including tech stack upgrade, cost optimization and compliance requirements
• Own and operate automated operational test cases for performance, security, and reliability of data platform
• Responsible for growing and inspiring a team of engineers through a combination of coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Cultivate a healthy, collaborative technology culture that is in line with company values

• Experience & Expertise with concepts like Data Mess, Lake house, Data orchestration, ETL/ELT, Cloud Data warehousing
• Experience with ingesting, transforming and curating structure and unstructured data set
• Experience with building analytic solutions applicable to Sales, Finance, Product, Operations, and Marketing organizations in an enterprise
• Experience implementing operational best practices such as monitoring, alerting, metadata management, data cataloging and data modeling
• Experience managing, measuring, improving data quality in an OLAP/OLTP
• Communication skills including the ability to identify and communicate data-driven insights
• Experience working in agile development environment
• Experience working with cloud providers, both on the IAAS side (Azure), and in the data and analytics space (Snowflake, etc)
• Experience in working in large teams using CI/CD and agile methodologies
• Minimum of 12+ years of experience in IT, majority in information system design
• Minimum of 5 years as a Data Architect with progressively increasing responsibility
• Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Science Bachelor’s in computer science Required
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US (no Visa sponsorship) to be considered

This is a full-time role with our client. The candidate has to be in Atlanta, GA or willing to relocate. Client will not sponsor work-visa. Candidate must be legally authorized to work in the US. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.