Lead Cloud Data Engineer at Panera Bread, Newton Support Center

Lead Cloud Data Engineer at Panera Bread in Newton Support Center. Full-time. $127,461 to $163,660 a year. Apply with swipeandhired.

Panera Bread is more than just a bakery-café; it’s a digital leader reshaping the quick-service restaurant industry. With over half of our sales generated through digital channels, Panera has led innovations like Rapid Pick-Up®, drive-thru ordering, geofencing for mobile pickup, and personalized loyalty programs. We’re transforming and building best-in-class omnichannel dining at scale, merging hospitality with advanced technology to deliver seamless experiences for millions of guests each week. A visionary technology leader ready to design systems that handle billions of transactions, lead top-performing teams, and shape the future of digital dining, Panera offers the opportunity to make a significant industry impact. Join us & help revolutionize & transform the way world experiences food.

Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Lead Cloud Data Engineer to lead the design, development, delivery, and operational excellence of our enterprise data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role serves as a critical bridge between enterprise architecture and solution delivery, translating strategic data architecture into scalable, secure, reliable, and production-ready data solutions that support both operational and analytical business needs. The successful candidate will provide hands-on development support, technical leadership across the full data lifecycle, including data ingestion, integration, streaming, transformation, orchestration, governance, retention and production operations. Combining deep technical expertise with strong leadership and mentoring capabilities, this individual will lead a team of data engineers, establish engineering best practices, drive delivery excellence, and ensure the performance, scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency of enterprise data solutions.
As a data engineer, you will partner closely with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, and platform engineering teams to deliver high-impact data products and capabilities that enable strategic business outcomes. The role requires exceptional problem-solving skills, a passion for engineering excellence, and a proven ability to drive architectural consistency, code quality, automation, and operational maturity across the data ecosystem. The ideal candidate will also stay at the forefront of emerging AI, Generative AI, and agentic technologies, identifying opportunities to improve engineering productivity, automation, data quality, and overall platform efficiency.

Duties & Responsibilities

Qualifications
Education:

Experience:

Working Conditions
Hybrid work environment with onsite presence required in Newton MA/or St Louis, MO
Physical Requirements
Regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate keyboards and devices.
Direct Reports
No. Train and Mentor Junior engineers, and contract workers

Competitive salary $127,461 - $163,660 annually.
The actual pay offered will be determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, job-related knowledge, skills, and geographical location. Individual compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Newton Support Center