[Remote] Lead Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Centraprise is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of multimodal sensor data pipelines and datasets for AI training. The role leads engineering standards, design reviews, operational reliability, and collaboration with AI and cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture for ingestion, transformation, synchronization, validation, and publishing of multimodal sensor datasets
• Define engineering standards, reusable frameworks, data contracts, metadata, lineage, and quality controls
• Lead design reviews and guide engineers on implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
• Partner with AI, perception, annotation, platform, and business stakeholders to prioritize requirements and milestones
• Establish monitoring and operational controls for pipeline reliability, throughput, traceability, and cost
• Lead root-cause analysis and remediation for complex data and pipeline defects
• Maintain architecture documentation, technical roadmaps, delivery risks, and knowledge transfer

Skills

• 8+ years of data engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex data platforms or pipelines
• Demonstrated proficiency processing unstructured and multimodal data, including video, images, LiDAR, GNSS, IMU, and telemetry
• Proven experience designing architectures and pipelines for AI training dataset creation at scale
• Advanced Python and SQL skills with hands-on experience in distributed processing and workflow orchestration
• Experience with cloud data platforms, object storage, lakehouse patterns, metadata, lineage, governance, and dataset versioning
• Strong understanding of data quality, observability, performance engineering, and production support
• Technical leadership, work planning, mentoring, stakeholder communication, design governance, risk management, and cross-functional coordination

Benefits

• Remote or hybrid work will also work.

Company Overview

Centraprise is an executive search and direct hire company. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.centraprise.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Centraprise has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 26 in 2026, 29 in 2025, 14 in 2024, 46 in 2023, 35 in 2022, 42 in 2021, 125 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.