Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPAM Systems is a global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. The company is seeking a Lead Data Integration Engineer to provide technical leadership, architect enterprise-grade data pipelines, and guide a team of data integration engineers. The role focuses on cloud-native and hybrid data architectures, ETL/ELT, orchestration, data modeling, security, and stakeholder collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Mentor & Lead: Guide a team of data integration and ETL engineers, fostering a collaborative, innovation-driven culture. Manage sprint planning, resource allocation, and risk management
- Code Review & Quality Assurance: Conduct regular code reviews and set up testing frameworks to ensure compliant, highly performant, and secure database code (SQL, Python, Scala)
- Culture of Excellence: Act as a role model, championing modern software development practices (CI/CD, version control via Git, modular code design, automated alerting, and monitoring)
- Modern ETL/ELT Design: Architect end-to-end data pipeline solutions using serverless frameworks or hybrid setups
- Orchestration & Automation: Establish robust pipeline scheduling and workflow orchestration using tools like Apache Airflow (Astronomer) or cloud-native schedulers to achieve high pipeline reliability (>99.5%) and minimize troubleshooting times
- Data Modeling & Warehousing: Design, model, and maintain scalable corporate data systems (OLAP, OLTP, Star/Snowflake schemas, Data Lakes, Lakehouses, and Data Meshes)
- Change Data Capture (CDC): Implement modern ingestion patterns, CDC methods, micro-batching, delta extracts, and routine partition maintenance
- Bridge Business & Tech: Collaborate with product owners, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into detailed technical specifications and data-flow diagrams
- Present Solutions: Confidently present advanced technical architectures to C-level client executives, showcasing ROI, architectural benefits, and performance gains
Skills
- - Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in data management, database design, migration, storage, and advanced data modeling
- - Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and developing teams of data engineers (experience managing teams of 4–7 engineers is highly preferred)
- - Data Integration & ETL Tools: Deep hands-on experience with major ETL tools such as Talend, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, GCP Dataflow, or Apache NiFi
- - Orchestration Mastery: Strong working experience with orchestration and scheduling engines, particularly Apache Airflow (Astronomer)
- - Programming & Scripting: Strong production coding skills in SQL, Python (PySpark, Pandas), Scala, SparkSQL, or Bash
- - Cloud Platforms: Extensive knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) with emphasis on big data warehousing engines (such as Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, or Azure Synapse)
- - Infrastructure & Security: Proven understanding of cloud security structures (identity and access management, data masking, and RLS) and compliance standards (GDPR, HIPAA, PI)
- - Documentation: Ability to write high-quality technical design specifications, mapping documentation, and data lineage reports
- - Communication & English: Excellent verbal and written English communication (B2+/C1 level), capable of directly managing international clients and conducting presentations
- (experience managing teams of 4–7 engineers is highly preferred)
Benefits
- Georgia: Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Georgia: Relocation opportunities within EPAM's offices in 55+ countries
- Georgia: Corporate and social events
- Georgia: Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Georgia: Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Georgia: Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Georgia: Free English classes with certified teachers
- Georgia: Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Georgia: Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Georgia: Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Georgia: Five trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Georgia: Benefits package covering sports activities and a variety of stores and services
- Georgia: Remote work from anywhere in Georgia, including home, EPAM offices in Tbilisi and Batumi, or a coworking space in Kutaisi
- Armenia: Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Armenia: Relocation opportunities within EPAM's offices in 55+ countries
- Armenia: Corporate and social events
- Armenia: Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Armenia: Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Armenia: Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Armenia: Free English classes with certified teachers
- Armenia: Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Armenia: Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Armenia: Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Armenia: Four trust days per year for personal needs
- Armenia: Discounts for fitness clubs
- Armenia: Benefits package covering hotels, restaurants, stores and services
- Armenia: Fully remote work from any location in Armenia, including home or EPAM offices in Yerevan or Gyumri
- Kazakhstan: Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Kazakhstan: Relocation opportunities within EPAM's offices in 55+ countries
- Kazakhstan: Corporate and social events
- Kazakhstan: Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Kazakhstan: Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Kazakhstan: Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Kazakhstan: Free English classes with certified teachers
- Kazakhstan: Discounts in local language schools, including online courses for the Kazakh language
- Kazakhstan: Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Kazakhstan: Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Kazakhstan: Medical & family care package
- Kazakhstan: Six trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Kazakhstan: Coverage of psychology sessions of your choice
- Kazakhstan: Benefits package covering sports activities and a variety of stores and services
- Kazakhstan: Housing support program with preferential mortgage access via Otbasy Bank partnership
- Kazakhstan: Remote work from home or EPAM offices in Astana, Almaty or Karaganda
- Kyrgyzstan: Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Kyrgyzstan: Relocation opportunities within EPAM's offices in 55+ countries
- Kyrgyzstan: Corporate and social events
- Kyrgyzstan: Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Kyrgyzstan: Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Kyrgyzstan: Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Kyrgyzstan: Free English classes with certified teachers
- Kyrgyzstan: Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Kyrgyzstan: Medical & family care package
- Kyrgyzstan: Six trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Kyrgyzstan: Coverage of psychology sessions of your choice
- Kyrgyzstan: Discounts for fitness clubs and sports programs
- Kyrgyzstan: Benefits package covering sports activities and a variety of stores and services
- Kyrgyzstan: Remote work from anywhere in Kyrgyzstan, including home or the EPAM office in Bishkek
- Uzbekistan: Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Uzbekistan: Relocation opportunities within EPAM's offices in 55+ countries
- Uzbekistan: Corporate and social events
- Uzbekistan: Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Uzbekistan: Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Uzbekistan: Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Uzbekistan: Free English classes with certified teachers
- Uzbekistan: Discounts in local language schools, including offline courses for the Uzbek language
- Uzbekistan: Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Uzbekistan: Medical & family care package
- Uzbekistan: Four trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Uzbekistan: Discounts for fitness clubs, dance schools and sports programs
- Uzbekistan: Benefits package covering sports activities and a variety of stores and services
- Uzbekistan: Remote work from anywhere in Uzbekistan, including home or the EPAM office in Tashkent
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