Lead Data Engineer

Job Description:

• Own Fullbay's data platform end to end, including architecture, hands-on development, and company-wide data standards
• Own certified metric and entity definitions and serve as final arbiter of cross-functional definitional disagreements
• Keep documentation current so business users can find trusted answers without assistance
• Build and extend the gold layer using SQL and transformation code in version control with automated tests
• Own identity resolution across Classic, Next, and Salesforce, including crosswalk logic, survivorship rules, and platform-of-record determination
• Own Snowflake role hierarchy, grants, row access and masking policies, warehouse sizing, cost attribution, and spend
• Design curated access paths for AI agents, including per-agent identities and grants, registration patterns, and retention policies
• Onboard new data sources, own schema drift and deletion detection, and partner with engineering on source schema changes
• Scope and direct the retained architecture consultant's work, review deliverables, and reject nonconforming work
• Provide guidance and office hours for business users and AI builders self-serving against the data platform
• Adhere to confidentiality and compliance regulations
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 7+ years of data engineering experience, including demonstrated ownership of a production data platform, required
• Deep dimensional modeling experience required: able to declare a grain, defend historization choices per attribute, and articulate a restatement policy
• Experience with Snowflake (or a comparable cloud data warehouse) beyond SQL — warehouse strategy, cost management, RBAC, and environment design — required
• Experience building transformations as version-controlled code with automated tests and CI required
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience with change data capture and incremental extraction from application databases required
• Experience with entity resolution across systems with independent identifiers required
• Strong written communication skills; able to arbitrate cross-functional definitional disagreements clearly and diplomatically
• Nice to have: Experience serving AI or programmatic consumers of data, familiarity with the Salesforce object model, prior experience as a company’s first data hire, and prior experience directing outside vendors