Lead Data Engineer
AI summary of the role
Principal Data Engineer leading 3-4 build teams in the Life, Annuity, and Long-Term Care Data Solutions group at Genworth.
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What you’ll do
- Lead 3–4 build teams, providing technical direction, coaching, mentoring, and technical governance.
- Establish and enforce design, engineering, and coding standards, including code reviews.
- Lead CI/CD and design reusable data tests for future releases.
- Drive Spark performance optimization and lead platform cost optimization opportunities.
What you’ll bring
- 3–5 years of hands-on Databricks experience.
- Proven experience in a Tech Lead role, including leading developers and distributing/decomposing work.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor, influence, and align cross-functional stakeholders.
- Solid grounding in general analytics, data warehousing, and modern data engineering practices.
Technologies
Databricks · Spark · CI/CD · Azure · Fabric · Medallion · OneLake · Lakebase · AI · ML
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington DC, Vermont, West Virginia or Wisconsin. This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship YOUR ROLE The Life, Annuity, and Long-Term Care Data Solutions team —responsible for end-to-end‑to‑end data architecture, data governance, and data engineering from source systems to data consumers—is seeking a Principal Data Engineer with strong Databricks expertise and proven experience in a Tech Lead capacity. In this role, you will lead and mentor data engineering tech leads across multiple build teams that use DataBricks and a data engineering CoE (Center of Excellence), guiding them through
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