Panera Bread
Lead Cloud Data Engineer
$127K–$164K
Newton Support Center +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Newton Support Center
Saint Louis Support Center - Experience
- 5+ years in data engineering and cloud-based data solutions; 5+ years building enterprise data platforms on GCP or similar; 4+ years with BigQuery; 4+ years with Dataflow, Dataproc, Python, PySpark, SQL, and Pandas.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
About the job
Leads hands-on design, delivery, and operation of enterprise data platforms and pipelines on Google Cloud, while mentoring data engineers and applying AI capabilities to improve platform productivity and quality.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable batch, streaming, and real-time data pipelines and workflows.
- Lead and mentor data engineers; establish engineering standards, architecture patterns, and delivery practices.
- Own production operations and optimize platform performance, reliability, security, and cost.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in data engineering, data platform development, and cloud-based data solutions, including technical leadership and team mentoring.
- 5+ years designing and delivering large-scale enterprise data platforms and pipelines on GCP or similar.
- 4+ years of hands-on BigQuery experience.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Managed Apache Spark), Python, PySpark, SQL, and Pandas.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Working knowledge of Vertex AI, Google Gemini Enterprise, Agent Studio, Model Garden, Agent Development Kit (ADK), and MCP integrations is a plus.
Pay
$127,461 - $163,660 USD base salary
Tools
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Managed Apache Spark), Python, PySpark, SQL, Pandas
AI focus
Evaluate and apply AI, Generative AI, and agentic capabilities to improve engineering productivity, automation, data quality and cataloging, and solution delivery.
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