
Lead Data Engineer
Stryker
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Missouri • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $102,600 - $188,100 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Translate business requirements into robust & performant data pipelines with appropriate ETL/ELT and monitoring/logging steps for a wide variety of data sources, such as Databricks Unity Catalog, SAP HANA, Microsoft SSAS, Azure SQL Server, Oracle, Parquet, APIs, Excel & CSVs.
- Lead and mentor others in advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
- Independently perform and document requirements, business logic, impact assessment, and technical documentation to maintain and troubleshoot key systems and data assets.
- Lead discussions with cross-divisional Stryker peers to collaboratively harness domain expertise and emerging capabilities to drive impact.
- Provide helpful insights in discussions to identify opportunities in data architecture and data movement that enable business opportunities with key stakeholders.
- Lead and deliver presentations and communications that build data engineering credibility and rapport to a medium-sized group, with some guidance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data analytics, mathematics, statistics, data science, or related field, or 6 years of additional data engineering work experience in lieu of degree.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in data engineering or related technical role.
- Experience in building and managing end‑to‑end data engineering solutions, from problem definition and requirements through architecture, deployment, and maintenance.
- Experience in SQL and proficiency in at least one programming language central to data engineering (e.g., Python, Powershell, R, Spark).
- Experience with ETL/ELT processes, optimizing and maintaining data pipelines, and data warehouse architecture.
- Experience with DataOps, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code practices using GitHub/GitLab.
- Experience using cloud‑based data platforms or distributed computing technologies.
- Experience performing code reviews, enforcing quality standards, and deploying improvements to production environments.
- Preferred Master’s degree.
- Experience with Microsoft data services, including Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Server, and Databricks.
- Experience with database administration.
- Experience with a data-driven reporting platform, such as Power BI, Tableau, or SSRS.
Benefits
- salary plus bonus eligible + benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringETLELTSQLPythonPowershellRSparkDataOpsDevOps
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringtroubleshootingroot-cause analysiscommunicationcollaborationpresentation skillsimpact assessmentdocumentationinsight generation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree