Lead Data Engineer

Standard Job Description

Join Lockheed Martin’s Data & AI Enablement organization and accelerate the company’s AI transformation. As a lead data engineer, you will design, build, and productize data assets that power AI agents, analytics, and enterprise applications across the Enterprise Data Ecosystem (EDE). In addition, you will lead the development, governance, and expansion of the enterprise ontology, ensuring consistent semantic definitions and relationships across all data products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end development of corporate and functional data models and pipelines – from raw data ingestion from source systems to gold-layer entities - so that they can be productized as certified data products.
• Define product vision, roadmap, SLAs, usage metrics, and continuous‑improvement cycles for all data assets.
• Develop, maintain, and govern the Enterprise ontology (concepts, relationships, taxonomies) and deploy it for use by AI agents and analytics applications across the corporation.
• Ensure data models deliver clean, well‑documented feature sets for machine‑learning pipelines; work with data scientists to embed model‑ready attributes (feature stores, lineage metadata).
• Implement security, governance, and compliance (encryption, fine‑grained access, data lineage) via Unity Catalog and cloud IAM
• Collaborate with team architects to validate designs.
• Optimize Databricks performance with auto‑scaling, caching, and Delta Lake tuning.
• Establish standards, best practices, and certification processes for data products and ontology assets.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent through code reviews, hands‑on workshops, paired‑programming, ...

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