Lead Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical architecture and roadmap for Document Crunch's data systems.

• Spearhead the migration from Redshift to Snowflake, encompassing assessment, target design, sequencing, validation, and cutover.

• Construct and sustain ingestion pipelines, warehouse models, transformation layers, orchestration, data contracts, and deployment workflows.

• Apply standardized product telemetry and incorporate CRM and operational data into Trimble's enterprise systems.

• Map data into Trimble's processed layer and Customer 360 master entities.

• Collaborate on master data management, survivorship rules, cleansing, identity resolution, and reconciliation.

• Define dimensional, domain, and semantic data models for analytics, reporting, and AI.

• Enforce data-quality controls, observability, alerting, lineage tracking, and incident response.

• Set expectations for data freshness, reliability, completeness, and recovery.

• Onboard metadata into the enterprise catalog while establishing glossary, ownership, and lineage standards.

• Document business logic, metric definitions, data contracts, and source-of-truth decisions.

• Collaborate with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Data Governance teams regarding access, retention, and policy requirements.

• Establish the foundation for executive dashboards and self-service analytics.

• Assess and rationalize BI tools, data products, and reporting workflows.

• Create data and semantic frameworks for conversational analytics, AI agents, natural-language querying, and AI-assisted dashboards.

• Build or integrate secure interfaces for sanctioned AI systems to discover and utilize governed data.

• Act as Document Crunch’s primary technical and operational liaison for the Trimble Data Team.

• Facilitate workshops, architecture reviews, roadmap alignment, and knowledge exchange among stakeholders.

• Codify the integration into a reusable, code-driven M&A Data Integration Playbook.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven hands-on technical leadership in end-to-end data platform architecture and engineering.

• Capacity to modernize a data estate and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

• Experience with Redshift-to-Snowflake migration, including architecture, validation, and cutover.

• Proficiency in building ingestion pipelines, warehouse models, transformation layers, orchestration, data contracts, and deployment workflows.

• Familiarity with warehouse-as-code practices.

• Ability to implement product telemetry and enterprise data integration.

• Experience with CRM, operational data, master data, Customer 360, identity resolution, and reconciliation.

• Skilled in defining dimensional, domain, and semantic data models.

• Experience with implementing dbt tests, business-rule validation, asset checks, and pipeline alerting.

• Knowledge of data observability, freshness, volume anomalies, schema drift, lineage, and incident response.

• Experience with metadata catalogs, business glossaries, ownership models, lineage standards, and data governance.

• Ability to collaborate with Security, Privacy, Legal, and enterprise Data Governance teams.

• Experience enabling executive dashboards, self-service analytics, and BI rationalization.

• Knowledge of conversational analytics, AI agents, natural-language querying, Snowflake Cortex Search, Cortex Agents, enterprise NLP frameworks, and MCP-style services.

• Ability to lead cross-functional architecture reviews, workshops, roadmap alignment, and knowledge exchange.

• Capability to influence architecture and standards without an initial management mandate.

• Minimal travel required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible for bonuses.

• Medical insurance provided.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance available.

• Life insurance included.

• Disability insurance offered.

• Various time-off plans.

• Retirement plans available.

• Tax-saving plans for health, dependent care, and commuting expenses.

• Paid Parental Leave offered.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan available.

• Minimal travel expectations.

• Collaborative and supportive team culture.

• Entrepreneurial environment encouraging ownership and initiative.

• Equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation support provided.