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Lead Data Engineer
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This role is for a Lead Data Engineer in Dallas, TX, for 6-12 months. Key skills include 4+ years of data engineering experience, Azure architectures, Kafka, SQL, and Java. Leadership experience and communication skills are essential. Hybrid work model.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
16
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ποΈ - Date
January 16, 2026
π - Duration
More than 6 months
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ποΈ - Location
Hybrid
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π - Contract
Unknown
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π - Security
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Dallas, TX
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π§ - Skills detailed
#Leadership #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Data Governance #Data Engineering #Presto #Batch #Storage #Data Lake #Data Modeling #Python #Agile #Data Pipeline #Consulting #Java #Data Catalog #Azure
Role description
Consulting Opportunity: Data Engineer in Dallas, TX
Role: Lead Data Engineer
Location: Hybrid in Dallas
Duration: 6-12 months
Rate: Open (C2C welcome)
DO NOT CALL SIMPLY SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH LINKEDIN
Description: This data engineer will lead a team of two data engineers in order to (continue) designing and develop data pipelines (either batch or streaming). Batch side is mainly focused on consuming data from an Azure data lake using Presto (with SQL interface) and pushing data into CosmosDB. Streaming is planned to have Kafka as the message queue and main mission is to properly consume messages to publish the CosmosDB DB. Also we are expecting in this role to have a leadership posture and also to come up with proactive ideas about how to improve current data pipelines, participate in client tech calls about overall architectural discussions and alignments, and also design data models of documental database (CosmosDB).
Required skills
Years of experience as a data engineer (at least 4+)
Familiar with Azure architectures and data pipelines (Blob storage / azure functions / CosmosDB)
Data pipeline streaming
Kafka
SQL
Java (must)
Data modeling
Nice-to-have skills
Python
Data governance
Data catalogs
Presto
Data Lake
Architecture design - in azure
Soft skills
Agile environment experience
Leadership experience
Communication / English: Ingles B1.
Would you be open to a call to discuss?
Consulting Opportunity: Data Engineer in Dallas, TX
Role: Lead Data Engineer
Location: Hybrid in Dallas
Duration: 6-12 months
Rate: Open (C2C welcome)
DO NOT CALL SIMPLY SEND YOUR RESUME THROUGH LINKEDIN
Description: This data engineer will lead a team of two data engineers in order to (continue) designing and develop data pipelines (either batch or streaming). Batch side is mainly focused on consuming data from an Azure data lake using Presto (with SQL interface) and pushing data into CosmosDB. Streaming is planned to have Kafka as the message queue and main mission is to properly consume messages to publish the CosmosDB DB. Also we are expecting in this role to have a leadership posture and also to come up with proactive ideas about how to improve current data pipelines, participate in client tech calls about overall architectural discussions and alignments, and also design data models of documental database (CosmosDB).
Required skills
Years of experience as a data engineer (at least 4+)
Familiar with Azure architectures and data pipelines (Blob storage / azure functions / CosmosDB)
Data pipeline streaming
Kafka
SQL
Java (must)
Data modeling
Nice-to-have skills
Python
Data governance
Data catalogs
Presto
Data Lake
Architecture design - in azure
Soft skills
Agile environment experience
Leadership experience
Communication / English: Ingles B1.
Would you be open to a call to discuss?






