Lead Data Engineer

Your objectives

• Solve the hardest problems with data and AI to deliver social and economic value.
• Develop and maintain relationships with a broad range of clients, colleagues, and partners across a variety of contexts and formats.
• Build, lead and mentor a world-class team of data engineers.
• Maintain a culture of excellence and lead with confidence, charisma, context, and humility working effectively at all levels.
• Create and deliver technical blogs & thought leadership on data engineering.
• Invest continuously in building and extending your knowledge and skills.

Your background

• Exceptional expertise in expertise in designing, building, and maintaining enterprise-scale data platforms and pipelines.
• Practical hands-on experience with at least three major data platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Neo4j.
• Proficiency with modern data processing frameworks: Spark, dbt, Airflow, or similar technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of data streaming solutions: Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, or equivalent.
• Expert-level coding ability in at least one language (Python, Scala, Java) and working knowledge of others.
• Strong experience with cloud data services (AWS, Azure, GCP) including migration strategies and optimization.
• Practical experience implementing data governance, security, and compliance frameworks.
• 10 years of experience delivering and managing data solutions through incubation, proofs-of-concept, to deployment and commercialisation.
• Strong ability to develop and maintain relationships amongst clients, colleagues, and partners.
• Ability to develop and deliver client proposals, and build consensus supported by detailed analysis, deep expertise and effective communication.
• Demonstrated ability to guide, develop and mentor data engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to create technical blogs & thought leadership on data engineering and management.
• Active engagement in the data community taking and giving courses, following podcasts, reading books, attending meetups, and developing projects.
• A good sense of humour. 😉