Job Overview

Lead IT Data Engineer role focuses on building and optimizing modern data platforms, including real‑time streaming pipelines that are cost‑optimized for cloud resources. The position leads complex projects across data engineering, enterprise data modeling, and agentic AI, architecting scalable solutions, enforcing governance and security, and deploying AI‑powered autonomous workflows that transform data engineering practices for Tyson’s manufacturing footprint.

Key Responsibilities
- Design and orchestrate complex data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, or Dagster.
- Architect scalable data solutions on platforms such as BigQuery, Delta Lake, Iceberg, and event‑driven streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).
- Design enterprise‑wide data models (dimensional, multi‑dimensional, ERDs) ensuring consistency and alignment with business processes.
- Define and implement data contracts and APIs for reliable interfaces between data producers and consumers.
- Establish and enforce data governance, security, cataloging,



and stewardship standards across all data and AI systems.
- Optimize cloud costs on AWS, GCP or Azure through efficient architecture and resource management.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for data workflows and manage containerized workloads with Docker, Kubernetes and IaC (Terraform).
- Drive data observability, including proactive monitoring, alerting, and automated detection of freshness, volume, and schema drift issues.
- Lead code reviews, establish coding standards and supervise agentic AI architectures and multi‑agent systems that automate data engineering workflows.
- Collaborate with data scientists, AI engineers and other stakeholders to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
- Engage directly with customer stakeholders, from consumers to technical teams and executives.

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of practical data engineering experience.
- Preferred certifications

📌 Lead IT Data Engineer MXT (Fresno del Sur)
🏢 Tyson Mexico
📍 Fresno del Sur