Lead Data Engineer (Remote)

As a Lead Data Engineer for Instruments Commercial Analytics (ICA), you will play a key role in data projects across the Instruments division. In this role, you will partner closely with analysts, data scientists, and our business clients to understand needs and translate them into effective data engineering solutions. You will lead the design, development, testing, monitoring, and documentation of both new and enhanced data pipelines. Additionally, you will collaborate on defining data architecture and selecting appropriate cloud technologies to support data engineering solutions.

ICA is a client-sponsored team delivering strategic impact through scalable data infrastructure, insight-driven analytics, and agile, white-glove execution. Our work is rooted in data and designed to drive meaningful business strategy.

What You Will Do

• Translate business requirements into robust & performant data pipelines with appropriate ETL/ELT and monitoring/logging steps for a wide variety of data sources, such as Databricks Unity Catalog, SAP HANA, Microsoft SSAS, Azure SQL Server, Oracle, Parquet, APIs, Excel & CSVs.
• Lead and mentor others in advanced troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Independently perform and document requirements, business logic, impact assessment, and technical documentation to maintain and troubleshoot key systems and data assets.
• Lead discussions with cross-divisional Stryker peers to collaboratively harness domain expertise and emerging capabilities to drive impact.
• Provide helpful insights in discussions to identify opportunities in data architecture and data movement that enable business opportunities with key stakeholders.
• Lead and deliver presentations and communications that build data engineering credibility and rapport to a medium-sized group, with some guidance.

What You Will Need

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data analytics, mathematics, statistics, data science, or related field, or 6 years of additional data engineering work experience in lieu of degree.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in data engineering or related technical role.
• Experience in building and managing end‑to‑end data engineering solutions, from problem definition and requirements through architecture, deployment, and maintenance.
• Experience in SQL and proficiency in at least one programming language central to data engineering (e.g., Python, Powershell, R, Spark).
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes, optimizing and maintaining data pipelines, and data warehouse architecture.
• Experience with DataOps, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code practices using GitHub/GitLab.
• Experience using cloud‑based data platforms or distributed computing technologies.
• Experience performing code reviews, enforcing quality standards, and deploying improvements to production environments.

Preferred

• Master’s degree.
• Experience with Microsoft data services, including Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Server, and Databricks.
• Experience with database administration.
• Experience with a data-driven reporting platform, such as Power BI, Tableau, or SSRS.

$102,600.00 - $188,100.00 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Posted Date: 04/10/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.