Lead Data Engineer

About the role

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will help shape how connected data drives business action across General Mills by designing scalable, sustainable data solutions and advancing modern data engineering practices. You will work closely with data engineers, business analysts, architects, and cross-functional partners to define technical direction, enable strategic initiatives, and bring new data capabilities to life across global teams.

What you'll do

• Act as a data and analytics leader with strong technical and domain expertise to guide engineering decisions and delivery outcomes
• Lead Project team members to deliver data capabilities
• Partner with business analysts and architects to define technical architectures for strategic projects and initiatives
• Evaluate, implement, and deploy emerging data engineering technologies, processes, and practices
• Makes pipeline architecture decisions based on standardized patterns and technologies

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Python
• ETL
• Data modelling
• Data warehousing
• Prompt engineering
• Any graduate

Good to have

• GCP
• Kafka
• BigQuery
• dbt
• CI/CD
• JIRA