Technical Lead / Senior Data Engineer @ Luxoft

Strategy and Project Delivery

Together with the business Subject Matter Experts and Product Manager, conceptualize, define, shape and deliver the roadmap to achieving the company priority and objectives

Lead business requirement gathering sessions to translate into actionable delivery solutions backlog for the team to build

Lead technical decisions in the process to achieve excellence and contribute to organizational goals.

Lead the D&A teams in planning and scheduling the delivery process, including defining project scope, milestones, risk mitigation and timelines management including allocating tasks to team members and ensuring that the project stays on track.

Have the full responsibility in ensuring successful delivery by the D&A teams to deliver new products on time, set up processes and operational plans from end to end, e.g., collecting user requirement, design, build & test solution and Ops Maintenance

Technical leader with a strategic thinking for the team and the organization. Visionary who can deliver strategic projects and products for the organization.

Own the data engineering processes, architecture across the teams

Technology, Craft & Delivery

Experience in designing and architecting data engineering frameworks, dealing with high volume of data

Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management

Mastery in technology leadership

Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team

Participating in defining, shaping and delivering the wider engineering strategic objectives

Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to provide technical coach, support and mentor the team

Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations

Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

Bachelor degree

At least 5 years of experience leading and managing one or multiple teams of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment to deliver complex projects or products on time and with demonstrable positive results.

7+ years'' experience with data at scale, using Kafka, Spark, Hadoop/YARN, MySQL (CDC), Airflow, Snowflake, S3 and Kubernetes

Solid working experience working with Data engineering platforms involving languages like PySpark, Python or other equivalent scripting languages

Experience working with public cloud providers such as Snowflake, AWS

Experience to work in a complex stakeholders'' organizations

A deep understanding of software or big data solution development in a team, and a track record of leading an engineering team in developing and shipping data products and solutions.

Strong technical skills (Coding & System design) with ability to get hands-on with your team when needed

Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision

You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality

You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates'' respect through actions, not the title

Exceptional and demonstrable leadership capabilities in creating unified and motivated engineering teams