Senior Lead Data Engineer (Remote)
Company: Stryker
Location: Illinois (Remote)
Type: Contract
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-08-03
About this role
As a Senior Lead, Data Engineering, you will serve as a technical leader who helps shape the future of enterprise data solutions. In this role, you will drive complex data initiatives, influence technical strategy, and partner with teams across the organization to build scalable, high-impact data products. This is an opportunity to solve challenging business problems while mentoring fellow engineers and elevating data engineering best practices.
What You Will Do
- Lead the architecture, development, and modernization of scalable enterprise data platforms that support global procurement analytics and business transformation.
- Define and help execute a multi-year data engineering strategy focused on platform scalability, reliability, automation, technical debt reduction, and long-term maintainability.
- Design, build, and optimize Azure-based data solutions using technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.
- Integrate and harmonize data across multiple ERP systems by standardizing supplier, purchasing, and master data into common enterprise data models.
- Partner with procurement analysts, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into reusable, scalable data products and engineering solutions.
- Establish engineering standards, conduct architecture reviews, improve documentation, and mentor engineers to raise the overall technical capability of the team.
- Identify and implement AI-enabled approaches that accelerate development, improve data quality, automate documentation, support testing, and enhance analyst productivity.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, patterns, and platform investments that improve performance, reliability, security, governance, and operational efficiency.
- Support the development of internal data products, APIs, and user-facing applications that simplify access to procurement insights and improve ...