Lead Data Engineer

Overview

This position can be based in Philadelphia or Coopersburg, PA

We offer generous relocation support to help make your transition as seamless as possible.

Lutron is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to help build and scale a modern, cloud-native data and AI platform powering analytics, real-time intelligence, and next-generation products.

In this role, you will shape the architecture and direction of our enterprise data ecosystem while applying your expertise in distributed systems, data platforms, and AI enablement.

You will lead scalable data solutions, drive modern engineering practices, and mentor engineers across teams. Apply your experience in streaming pipelines, cloud platforms, and data modeling to deliver high-impact systems powering intelligent products and business insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and implementation of Lutron's enterprise data platform supporting analytics, reporting, AI initiatives.
• Define engineering standards, and best practices for scalable data platforms across the data team.
• Mentor Data Engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Design, develop, test and maintain production-quality data pipelines using Python, SQL, PySpark and other cloud-native technologies.
• Build reliable batch and event-driven data ingestion pipelines that process structured and semi-structured data from enterprise applications, manufacturing systems, Lutron products, and external partners.
• Integrate data from sales, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, engineering, customer support, and other enterprise platforms into trusted analytical datasets.
• Design scalable dimensional and domain-oriented data models supporting operational reporting, executive dashboards, self-service analytics, and AI workloads across a distributed data mesh organization.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for production data pipelines.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Minimum, cumulative GPA of 3.00 for all degrees earned
• 8+ years of industry experience in a related field
• Proven expertise in modern data modeling, real-time and batch data processing, and cloud-based architectures
• We offer generous relocation support to help make your transition as seamless as possible.
• You are authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require Lutron to sponsor you for any work visa, such as an H-1B, either immediately or at any time in the future. Lutron does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience acting as Technical Lead or Lead Data Engineer for a multi-engineer team.
• Experience leading architecture decisions across multiple data domains and platforms.
• Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices at scale.
• Experience resolving competing stakeholder requirements and driving consensus across organizations.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics, operational reporting, machine learning, or AI products.
• Experience building observability, reliability, and operational excellence practices for data platforms.

Lutron Electronics’ position as the worldwide leader in innovative lighting control and shading solutions has enabled consistent, annual growth. Our company has cultivated a reputation for unsurpassed quality, a broad range of technologies and product offerings, and a strong commitment to servicing our customers worldwide. This has allowed the company to invest in developing new technologies and services, expand our technical capabilities and global presence, and to find and retain the best talent. Build your career with Lutron where you will enjoy competitive compensation and benefits while exploring many options for continued growth and education. Make a difference every day in our dynamic, people-centric, technology-driven organization. For more information, view our website at www.lutron.com

Lutron Electronics is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action – Employer. We welcome qualified, motivated applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Minimum, cumulative GPA of 3.00 for all degrees earned
• 8+ years of industry experience in a related field
• Proven expertise in modern data modeling, real-time and batch data processing, and cloud-based architectures
• We offer generous relocation support to help make your transition as seamless as possible.
• You are authorized to work in the U.S. and will not require Lutron to sponsor you for any work visa, such as an H-1B, either immediately or at any time in the future. Lutron does not offer work visa sponsorship for this position

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience acting as Technical Lead or Lead Data Engineer for a multi-engineer team.
• Experience leading architecture decisions across multiple data domains and platforms.
• Demonstrated success mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices at scale.
• Experience resolving competing stakeholder requirements and driving consensus across organizations.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics, operational reporting, machine learning, or AI products.
• Experience building observability, reliability, and operational excellence practices for data platforms.

Lutron Electronics’ position as the worldwide leader in innovative lighting control and shading solutions has enabled consistent, annual growth. Our company has cultivated a reputation for unsurpassed quality, a broad range of technologies and product offerings, and a strong commitment to servicing our customers worldwide. This has allowed the company to invest in developing new technologies and services, expand our technical capabilities and global presence, and to find and retain the best talent. Build your career with Lutron where you will enjoy competitive compensation and benefits while exploring many options for continued growth and education. Make a difference every day in our dynamic, people-centric, technology-driven organization. For more information, view our website at www.lutron.com

Lutron Electronics is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action – Employer. We welcome qualified, motivated applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

#LEC1

#LI-VV1

#LI-ONSITE

• Lead the technical design and implementation of Lutron's enterprise data platform supporting analytics, reporting, AI initiatives.
• Define engineering standards, and best practices for scalable data platforms across the data team.
• Mentor Data Engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Design, develop, test and maintain production-quality data pipelines using Python, SQL, PySpark and other cloud-native technologies.
• Build reliable batch and event-driven data ingestion pipelines that process structured and semi-structured data from enterprise applications, manufacturing systems, Lutron products, and external partners.
• Integrate data from sales, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, engineering, customer support, and other enterprise platforms into trusted analytical datasets.
• Design scalable dimensional and domain-oriented data models supporting operational reporting, executive dashboards, self-service analytics, and AI workloads across a distributed data mesh organization.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for production data pipelines.