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Senior Enterprise Data Engineer
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Enterprise Data Engineer to join our enterprise data leadership team. This is a strategic, senior-level position responsible for defining, designing, and governing the long-term vision of our enterprise data platforms.
You will bridge high-level architectural strategy with hands-on technical oversight, owning the enterprise data roadmap while ensuring platforms are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives. This role requires a technical authority who can influence technology decisions, enforce governance standards, and provide leadership across multiple engineering teams in highly regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Strategy
• Design and own the roadmap for enterprise-scale data architectures, including data lakes, data warehouses, and virtualization layers
• Define and enforce enterprise-wide standards for data integration, replication, data modeling, and data virtualization
• Lead evaluation and adoption of new data technologies, balancing innovation, stability, scalability, and total cost of ownership
• Design architectures suitable for analytics, AI, operational reporting, and real-time use cases
• Partner with executives and data leaders to influence long-term data strategy and investment roadmaps - Implementation & Platform Oversight
• Lead the architecture and enterprise-wide implementation of Denodo to create a unified, real-time data access and virtualization layer
• Oversee complex data pipelines built using Qlik Talend (Cloud and On-Prem) ensuring alignment with enterprise architectural standards
• Manage log-based CDC, real-time streaming, and heterogeneous database replication using Qlik Replicate
• Implement AI-driven workflow automation using IBM WatsonX Orchestrate to streamline data provisioning and operational processes
• Ensure high availability, performance optimization, disaster recovery readiness, and resilience across all critical data services
• Provide oversight on SQL optimization and advanced enterprise data modeling approaches (Data Vault 2.0, Anchor Modeling) - Governance, Security & Compliance
• Implement and govern enterprise data governance frameworks, including data lineage, metadata management, and data quality controls
• Ensure governance is embedded within the data virtualization layer
• Enforce enterprise security standards including RBAC, data masking, encryption, and secure data access
• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, and other industry-specific requirements
• Support Master Data Management (MDM) strategies and enterprise data stewardship initiatives - Leadership & Mentorship
• Act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to data engineers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders
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