
Data Engineering Team Lead
Verisk
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lehi • Utah • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and manage the Data Engineering team, providing technical guidance, coaching, and career development while ensuring high standards of delivery and operational excellence.
- Own the end‑to‑end data architecture and data pipelines for new and existing datasets, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption layers.
- Design, maintain, and evolve data models that support analytics, reporting, operational use cases, and external data consumers.
- Restructure and modernize existing data structures to improve performance, scalability, reliability, and ease of use for internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Establish and enforce data engineering best practices, including data quality standards, documentation, testing, governance, and security.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally with product, analytics, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust and scalable data solutions.
- Ensure reliability and operational health of data pipelines, including monitoring, issue resolution, and performance optimization.
- Drive continuous improvement through adoption of new tools, technologies, and architectural patterns that align with organizational goals.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering
- Strong experience designing and maintaining large‑scale data pipelines and data architectures.
- Proficiency with modern data technologies (e.g., cloud data platforms, data warehouses, ETL/ELT tools).
- Experience restructuring or modernizing existing data models or platforms.
- Strong understanding of data governance, quality, security, and compliance best practices.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and non‑technical teams.
- 2+ years in a people leadership role (preferred)
- Experience supporting both internal analytics and external data consumers or partners (preferred)
- Familiarity with domain‑driven data modeling and data mesh or similar architectures (preferred)
- Experience working in fast‑paced, scaling organizations (preferred)
- Background in mentoring and growing high‑performing engineering teams (preferred)
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Disability benefits
- Paid Time Off program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata architecturedata pipelinesdata modelsETL toolsELT toolsdata governancedata qualitydata securitydata compliance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationcoachingtechnical guidancecareer developmentproblem-solvingcross-functional teamworkmentoringcontinuous improvement