Lead Data Engineer

$30,000 - $30,000/Yr

Lennar - Irving, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Irving, TX

Construction of Buildings

About the position

The Lead Data Engineer at Lennar plays a crucial role in transforming the organization into a data-driven entity. This position is part of the Enterprise Data and Analytics team, focusing on designing and implementing advanced data and analytics platforms. The Lead Data Engineer will provide technical leadership, develop engineering solutions, and empower business users through self-service and automation, ultimately operationalizing Lennar's enterprise data fabric.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operationalize data engineering solutions for Lennar's data and analytics platforms and products.
• Architect and implement ETL, ELT, and streaming data ingestion processes across multiple sources.
• Experience in data modeling, cloud data lake, and cloud data warehouse.
• Instrument data analytics platforms with robust metrics and monitoring.
• Improve data ingestion architecture, emphasizing data quality, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Support process improvement on the team to enable rapid development of data products.
• Define and implement standards and best practices for the data analytics team, including code modularization, versioning, testing, and automation of CI/CD workflows.
• Gain an understanding of core business processes and align data development with business strategy.
• Wrangle and integrate data from disparate systems to allow data analysts and data scientists to leverage end-to-end data and information.

Requirements

• At least 8+ years of expertise in Data Architecture design, prefers 12+ years.
• Experience in data modeling & data warehousing concepts.
• Knowledge of data transformations and standardizations.
• Proficient in ETL processes & strategies.
• Familiarity with monitoring and error handling.
• Understanding of SDLC & workflow best practices.
• Experience with code reviews and QA/testing methodologies.
• Strong experience (At least 3+, prefers 6+ years) with AWS platform: S3, EC2, EMR, EKS, Glue, Lambda, AppFlow, Cloudwatch, etc.
• AWS certification is a big plus.
• Experience with Snowflake Data Cloud Account Administration and virtual warehouse strategies.
• Knowledge of Snowflake feature implementation: Data Sharing, Time Travel, and Zero-copy cloning.
• Experience with role-based access control strategies.
• Proficient in managing dbt cloud environment and multi-repository dbt projects.
• Ability to create and manage dbt models and leverage dbt macros.
• Familiarity with version control & branching strategies (Github a plus).
• Proficient in SQL and Python.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance concepts.
• Experience with data ingestion, incremental and CDC ingestion methods, and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with orchestration & scheduling tools (Prefect, Airflow is a plus).

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to work collaboratively and productively with other team members.
• Thirst to help transform Lennar into an insights-driven organization.
• Experience in all aspects of development including gathering requirements and supporting testing and post-implementation support.
• Ability to work and partner with users and stakeholders to gather solution requirements.
• Experience working with business users to understand how to optimally deliver insights within their operational workflows & decision-making processes.
• Ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies and about the business.

Benefits

• Robust health insurance plans including Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with a $1 for $1 Company Match up to 5%.
• Paid Parental Leave and Associate Assistance Plan.
• Education Assistance Program and up to $30,000 in Adoption Assistance.
• Up to three weeks of vacation annually, alongside generous Holiday, Sick Leave, and Personal Day policies.
• New Hire Referral Bonus Program and significant Home Purchase Discounts.
• Unique opportunities such as the Everyone's Included Day.