AmeriGas · 12 hours ago
Lead Data Engineer
Greater Philadelphia
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expAmeriGas is the nation’s premier propane company, serving over 1.5 million customers. The Lead Data Engineer is responsible for leading data engineering initiatives, managing a team, and building robust data models and ETL pipelines to meet organizational goals.
FinanceInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Personally design, build, and maintain complex ETL/ELT pipelines from diverse source systems using Snowflake and Databricks
Write production-quality code and SQL on a daily basis, serving as a primary technical contributor to critical data engineering projects
Lead and manage a team of 1-3 data engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, mentorship, and performance management
Architect and implement scalable data models and infrastructure that align with business objectives
Drive innovation and establish best practices in data engineering, serving as the subject matter expert for modern data platform capabilities
Manage the full life-cycle development process for data engineering projects, from requirements gathering through deployment and maintenance
Collaborate with data science and BI teams to enable deployment of scalable data solutions across the company's ecosystem
Establish and enforce data engineering best practices, coding standards, and quality assurance protocols through both leadership and example
Provide expert-level support and hands-on troubleshooting for SQL optimization, data warehousing, and cloud data platform architecture
Adhere to stringent quality assurance and documentation standards using version control and code repositories (e.g., Git, GitHub)
Qualification
Required
Proficiency in Snowflake, including advanced features such as data sharing, streams, tasks, and performance optimization
Expert-level SQL skills for complex queries, stored procedures, and database optimization with ability to write highly efficient, production-ready code
Extensive hands-on experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake, Apache Spark, and cluster management
Proven experience designing and personally implementing ETL/ELT processes from multiple heterogeneous source systems
Advanced working knowledge of Python and/or other programming languages for data engineering workflows
Strong understanding of modern data architecture principles, including data warehousing, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures
Excellent communication skills with ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Business acumen with ability to identify risks, opportunities, and generate innovative solutions to complex data challenges
Strong project management skills with ability to prioritize competing demands and deliver results on time
Collaborative mindset with experience working across data science, analytics, engineering, and business teams
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical discipline required
5+ years of hands-on, individual contributor experience in data engineering with progressively increasing responsibility
2+ years of experience in a technical leadership or team lead capacity while maintaining significant hands-on coding responsibilities
Preferred
Experience with QlikSense and QlikView for data integration and analytics (strongly preferred)
Master's Degree preferred
Company
AmeriGas
AmeriGas through its subsidiaries, markets propane, propane equipment, and related services. It is a sub-organization of UGI.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (7)
2024 (1)
2023 (10)
2022 (4)
2021 (6)
2020 (10)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.05B2025-05-21Debt Financing· $550M
2023-05-22Debt Financing· $500M
Leadership Team
Brett Greer
IT Manager Business Partner
Jennifer Curtis
Finance Business Partner
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