Lead Data Engineer

Job Summary

Lead Data Engineer - Grade F

Location: Hyd

Mode: Hybrid

YOE: 17-22

Key Activities / Responsibilities

In this role, youll play a pivotal role in crafting and implementing data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) leading and collaborating with multi-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of data products into our new data architecture, driving innovation and optimising data utilisation.

Your role would include the following activities:

• Design, develop, and maintain complex Data Products. Implementing clean, maintainable, and efficient solution design following best practices.
• Lead implementation reviews and all aspects of data product delivery to preserve quality and share knowledge.
• Be responsible for leading a talented group of engineers, guiding and working alongside them on entire software development lifecycle and manage the delivery of robust, scalable data applications and features.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform.
• Identify and implement best practices for data engineering.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills to resolve complex data issues, technical problems, and bugs.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers.
• Strong understanding of data security principles and secure architectural practices
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure timely delivery by managing tasks and priorities effectively utilising their in-depth expertise in Agile methodology.
• Communicate effectively with team and stakeholders.
• Accountable for custodianship governance activities on data assets that their platform produce and consume.

Recruitment Priority Skills

Were keen to speak to candidates with experience who have strong skills in :

• Data Engineering: Can develop data validation methodology and data hub process models, including sourcing, loading, transformation and extraction in alignment with the Group and business needs.
• Data Modelling & Design :Can aligns models to domain boundaries and real access patterns across services, streams, and warehouses. Designs for evolvability using additive changes, backward-compatible schemas, and safe deprecations. Can embed data quality checks, defines conformed dimensions and a semantic layer, and implements privacy and security controls such as row/column-level security and PII handling. Experience of coaching others and enforcing standards through reviews and reusable templates.
• Dev Ops: Leading team to identify issues and improve automation across the end-to-end application development lifecycle. Using technology stack and tooling to evolve applications at pace and ensure efficiency, quality and security is monitored as part of every build.
• Python: Has a holistic understanding of Python and can make intuitive decisions in familiar contexts. Capable of implementing multi-threading and asynchronous programming using tools like threading and asyncio.
• SQL: Can tune complex queries and workloads; designs schemas and constraints; manages concurrency/isolation; refactors for performance and readability; mentors others

• Leadership & People Development: Builds, inspires, and scales high-performing Data Engineering, Analytics, and Modelling teams. Creates a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement through effective coaching, mentoring, talent development, and servant leadership.

Other Key Skills

• AI Literacy
• Data Architecture
• Quality Engineering
• Agile Methodology & Tools
• Expertise in FinOps/Optimisation for Cloud Computing
• Google Analytical Database technologies (Big Query, Cloud SQL, Spanner, AlloyDB)
• Infrastructure as Code experience
• Streaming platforms knowledge and utilisation (Pub/Sub or Kafka for example, Dataflow, Flink for example)
• Build/Deploy container-based solutions (GKE)
• Building solutions to provide Data Quality (Dataplex, Atacama etc)
• Exposure and experience to modern programming practices (Functional programming, Event-based solutions)

Technical Skills

Personal

• Data Literacy
• Data Storytelling

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