Principal Data Lead

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Math, or other related scientific or technical discipline. With twelve years of general information technology
• 14+ year's experience in software engineering, including implementing engineering best practices, iterative/continuous engineering principles
• All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. This requires candidates to either be U.S. citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years, have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation
• Demonstrated ability to lead enterprise data strategy, data engineering, data governance, metadata, data quality, or data platform operations in a complex analytics environment.
• Experience with lakehouse or comparable data platform operations, including ingestion, transformation, schema design, optimization, jobs and workflows, pipeline reliability, data quality, documentation, and production support.
• Working knowledge of distributed processing, programming and query languages, governance layers, metadata management, lineage, data cataloging, and governed data asset promotion.
• Ability to define and manage data quality standards, data promotion criteria, source onboarding patterns, data contracts, stewardship practices, data-domain coordination, and reusable data product documentation.
• Experience collaborating with product, engineering, BI, AI/ML, security, privacy, support, and business stakeholders to support self-service analytics, certified dashboards, public-facing products, APIs, and responsible AI readiness.
• Knowledge of sensitive Government data handling, approved data-use practices, least-privilege access, privacy-aware data publication, public data controls, cell suppression, and Section 508/WCAG considerations for public-facing data products.
• Ability to comply with customer-specific security, privacy, accessibility, quality, training, and data-handling requirements for assigned systems and data.

• Experience supporting federal, public sector, healthcare, or other regulated data, analytics, oversight, reporting, or public transparency programs.
• Experience with modern cloud platforms, lakehouse or comparable data platforms, governance layers, secure data-sharing patterns, query engines, connectors, APIs, BI tools, workflow tools, source control, CI/CD, work management tools, documentation tools, observability tools, and approved monitoring patterns.
• Experience advancing metadata maturity, machine-readable documentation, data stewardship, catalog discoverability, semantic consistency, dashboard certification, public-facing publication packages, and governed data assets.
• Familiarity with AI/ML data readiness, model-serving data dependencies, retrieval-augmented generation patterns, AI service governance, inference logging, AI evaluation artifacts, and metadata prerequisites for responsible AI expansion.
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines within the Databricks platform
• Preferred certifications may include AWS, Databricks data platform, cloud data analytics, Certified Data Management Professional, DAMA, data governance, data quality, analytics engineering, SAFe, or related data platform credentials.

Working Environment : eSimplicity supports a remote work environment operating within the Eastern time zone so we can work with and respond to our government clients.

Expected hours are 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern unless otherwise directed by manager.

Occasional travel for training and project meetings.

It is estimated to be less than 5% per year.

eSimplicity offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement benefits, paid time off, paid holidays, life and disability insurance, and additional wellness and employee support programs.

Eligibility may vary based on employment status and applicable plan terms.

Reasonable Accommodation: eSimplicity is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process.

Applicants who need assistance or an accommodation should contact Human Resources.

Equal Employment Opportunity: eSimplicity is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.