Lead Data Engineer

About the job

Overview We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design and implement the core analytical data platform for a federal permitting modernization initiative. The Lead Data Engineer will establish a modern lakehouse environment using DuckDB, Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3, and AWS Glue Catalog and will lead the engineering patterns used to ingest, harmonize, and serve data across multiple source systems. The role will also help implement metadata-driven and agentic approaches to data engineering, including source analysis, mapping, pipeline generation, testing, reconciliation, and quality assurance. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with responsibility for guiding and reviewing the work of…