Technical Lead, Product Owner – 3PD Data Ingestion
Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America
Full Time
2 hours ago
$125,760 - $188,640 USD
H1B Sponsor
Key skills
CloudDistributed SystemsAIData EngineeringData LakeAnalyticsLeadershipMentoringRemote Work
About this role
Role Overview
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and oversight for engineers building and operating 3PD data ingestion pipelines.
Own the end-to-end data pipelines for loading third-party source systems into the enterprise Data Lake and Data Warehouse.
Collaborates across Enterprise Data Services on 3PD reference architectures for batch, streaming, near‑real‑time, and event‑driven data movement.
Lead 3PD ingestion framework development to support diverse source systems.
Partner with enterprise teams to Evaluate, prototype and adopt new ingestion technologies, features, and approaches to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
Ensure ingestion solutions align with enterprise data standards, governance, and security requirements.
Partner with Reliability Engineering teams to ensure ingestion pipelines meet enterprise availability, resiliency, observability and recoverability expectations.
Support incident response, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement related to ingestion failures and data quality issues.
Establish and drive observability standards for ingestion pipelines, including freshness, latency, completeness, and error tracking, with a strong emphasis on automation and operational readiness.
Define and maintain the 3PD data ingestion roadmap aligned with business priorities and enterprise data strategy.
Prioritize ingestion features, enhancements, and technical debt based on business value, risk reduction, and scalability needs.
Own ingestion platform intake, backlog grooming, and iteration planning.
Own ingestion documentation, onboarding materials, standards, and best practices.
Enable self‑service ingestion for data engineering teams through reusable components and clear guidance.
Partner with ingestion consumers to resolve data delivery, quality, and usability challenges.
Partner with external data providers, and internal consumers to support ingestion requirements for third‑party and externally sourced data.
Coordinate technical onboarding, schema evolution, delivery SLAs, and data quality expectations with vendors and partners.
Provide visibility into ingestion workload usage, throughput, performance, and cost drivers.
Identify and recommend optimization opportunities to improve ingestion efficiency while maintaining SLAs and data freshness.
Partner with engineering and vendor teams to implement cost and performance improvements across ingestion workloads.
Requirements
5–7 years of engineering experience with modern data platforms.
3+ years of hands‑on experience designing and operating large‑scale data ingestion pipelines.
Strong understanding of batch and streaming ingestion patterns, data movement, and data lifecycle management.
Experience with cloud‑based data ingestion architectures and distributed systems.
Strong understanding of security, resiliency, DevOps, observability, and automation as applied to data ingestion.
Experience supporting analytics and AI workloads through reliable, high‑quality data ingestion.
Demonstrated ability to manage a roadmap, prioritize work, and collaborate with engineering teams.
Ability to communicate and influence across technical and business teams.
Strategic thinker with the ability to simplify complex ingestion concepts.
Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.