Lead Data Engineer

Mico

Data Eng

Tech Lead

About this role

The Lead Data Engineer sets direction for the new Data Platform team within Mico Engage AI, building durable governance for a growing product whose models span a large codebase and multiple data stores. The role owns a 12-month roadmap, standards and platform-wide technical decisions. Work covers lineage, classification, benchmarks and test reliability; deciding which entities stay in TiDB or move to Snowflake; offloading heavy analytics from transactional systems; and staged redesign of customer and segment models. The lead also shapes retention and reverse-ETL changes, directs incidents, explains trade-offs to business stakeholders, coordinates database and warehouse vendors, mentors engineers and contributes hands-on code. Requirements include a relevant bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; 8+ years in backend/data engineering, including 2+ years as a tech lead or architect; and experience leading live-system model/schema migrations, relational modeling, MySQL-compatible RDBMS operations, production TypeScript/Node.js, OLTP/DWH design, stakeholder decisions, team development, SLOs, incident response and data governance.

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