Lead Data Engineer

Innovate in Charlotte

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Your Impact

The main purpose of this role is to deliver end-to-end data solutions for complex business problems. This role includes translating business needs to technical requirements, designing the architecture, and facilitating the implementation and maintenance of those solutions. This role serves as a technical expert to develop the right solution, including the evaluation of best fit platform/technology stack, and ensure correct implementation, following best practices and accounting for both functional and non-functional requirements, like reliability, scalability, performance, stability, security, and long-term maintainability.

What You Will Do

• Resolves complex problems spanning across multiple applications to deliver value; leads products with significant business implications, participates in planning, estimation, and prioritization in tandem with the respective product manager, and advises other engineers; executes with limited guidance.
• Evaluates and facilitates decisions on build versus buy as well as best fit platform suitable for the business problem.
• Leads development of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions to ensure specifications are flexible, scalable, and maintainable and meet architectural standards.
• Mentors and advises others in all software development lifecycle phases by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies (Agile and Kanban), policies, standards, controls, current architectural standards, and guidelines.
• Establishes best source control and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices for efficient testing and deployment of code to different environments.
• Communicates changes in software architecture and coaches others to apply this understanding to data or platform solutions; leads the resolution of production incidents along with root cause analysis.
• Works across multiple domains to define and design a data lake/data solution to meet business needs and product objectives and key results, service level agreements, data quality, data governance, and observability.
• Partners with platform, architecture, and various stakeholders to design and architect solutions meeting business needs.
• Continuously improves efficiency of data pipelines and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes across the organization.
• Analyzes and organizes data to evaluate the usefulness and relevance of data required for insights requested by business.
• Designs, leads, and delivers the development, maintenance, and enhancements of operational, analytical (including self-serve) applications across various business domains; provides direction to matrixed engineering resources to deliver reports on-premises and cloud infrastructure; creates frameworks and reusable components.
• Leads infrastructure-related projects from idea generation through implementation, including needs analysis, cost/benefit analysis, selection, implementation, knowledge transfer, and support.
• Analyzes and proposes design alternatives, facilitates appropriate design decisions, and assesses risk, cost, schedule, and resource tradeoffs; understands networking, like subnetting, routing, virtual private cloud/virtual network, security groups, and load balancing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, computer information systems (CIS), or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
• 7 years of experience in data, business intelligence, or platform engineering, data warehousing/ETL, or software engineering
• 6 years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)
• 4 years of expertise in object-oriented programming/structure programming, SQL, and scripting
• 4 years of experience in big data and Cloud big data technologies

Preferred Skills/Education

• Master's degree in computer science, CIS, or related field

• 6 years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization

• 4 years of experience leading teams, with or without direct reports

• 4 years of experience working with CI/CD tools

• 7+ years of data engineering experience, with a focus on building and scaling data pipelines within GCP (Google Cloud Platform) using Spark.

• Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL for complex data manipulation and transformation.

• Proven experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for data workloads.

• Deep expertise in Data Modelling (Star Schema, Snowflake, or Data Vault) to support large-scale analytics.

• Hands-on experience developing and deploying enterprise-grade dashboards in Looker and PowerBI.

• Practical experience or a demonstrated project portfolio involving GenAI or LLM integration within data pipelines.

About Lowe's

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 100 home improvement company with total fiscal 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe's employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.