Lead Data Engineer

About the role

The Lead Data Engineer role is crucial for transforming Lennar into a data and insights-driven organization. This position is part of the Enterprise Data and Analytics team, which aims to enhance business outcomes through data and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operationalize data engineering solutions for Lennar’s data and analytics platforms and products.
• Architect and implement ETL, ELT, and streaming data ingestion and delivery processes across multiple sources.
• Instrument data analytics platforms with robust metrics and monitoring.
• Improve data ingestion architecture, focusing on data quality, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Support process improvement on the team to enable rapid development of data products.
• Define and implement standards and best practices for data analytics team, including code modularization, versioning, testing, automation of CI/CD workflows, code reviews, etc.
• Gain an understanding of core business processes and align data development with business strategy.
• Wrangle and integrate data from disparate systems to allow data analysts and data scientists to leverage end-to-end data and information.

Requirements

• Expertise (at least 8+, prefers 12+ years) in: Data Architecture design, Data modeling & Data warehousing concepts, Data transformations and standardizations, ETL processes & strategies, Monitoring and error handling, SDLC & workflow best practices, Code Reviews, QA/Testing methodologies.
• Strong experience (at least 3+, prefers 6+ years) with the following technologies and platforms: AWS platform: S3, EC2, EMR, EKS, Glue, Lambda, AppFlow, Cloudwatch etc., AWS certification is a big plus, Snowflake Data Cloud Account Administration, Virtual warehouse strategies, Snowflake feature implementation: Data Sharing, Time Travel, and Zero-copy cloning, Role-based Access Control strategies, Dbt, Managing dbt cloud environment, Managing multi-repository dbt projects, Creating and managing dbt models, Creating and leveraging dbt macros, Version control & branching strategies (Github a plus).
• Proficient in languages: SQL, Python, Data governance, security, and compliance concepts, Data Ingestion, Incremental and CDC ingestion methods, REST APIs.
• Familiarity (at least 1+ years of experience) with: Orchestration & scheduling tools (Prefect, Airflow is a plus).

Other Requirements

• Ability to work collaboratively and productively with other team members to achieve Lennar’s objectives.
• Thirst to help transform Lennar into an insights-driven organization.
• Demonstrated some experience in all aspects of development including, but not limited to, gathering requirements, development of technical components related to process scope and supporting testing and post implementation support.
• Ability to work and partner with users and stakeholders to gather solution requirements.
• Experience working with business users to understand how to optimally deliver insights within their operational workflows & decision-making processes.
• Ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies.
• Ability and willingness to learn about the business, its strategy, objectives, and core business processes.

Additional Requirements

• Travel up to 10% of the time to Divisions within the Lennar family.
• Interact well with co-workers.
• Cross train for position(s) within the team organizational structure from time to time, as required by the Leadership Team.
• Comply with and implement company policies and procedures.
• Able to accept constructive criticism.
• Strong work ethic.
• Team player.

Benefits

Lennar offers a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to enhance Associates' well-being and professional growth, including robust health insurance plans, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with a $1 for $1 Company Match up to 5%, Paid Parental Leave, an Associate Assistance Plan, an Education Assistance Program, and up to $30,000 in Adoption Assistance. Additionally, Associates receive up to three weeks of vacation annually, generous Holiday, Sick Leave, and Personal Day policies, and the New Hire Referral Bonus Program, significant Home Purchase Discounts, and unique opportunities like Everyone’s Included Day.