Data Engineering Lead (TDR 41) Sandton at DAV Professional Placement Group

Purpose:

• The purpose of this role is to lead the technical delivery team, using experience to deliver right sized and well architected solutions in order to meet their targets.
• The successful incumbent will be expected to use their experience working in Azure (AWS/GCP), to understand the available technology choices and selectively implement services safely and securely. As well as demonstrate experience working with the technologies and processes, they employ technologies such as Data Bricks, Python, Unity catalog, DevOps (CI/CD) and Plotly.
• The Data Lead will be responsible for breaking down Epics and Features for the rest of the team, ensuring User Stories and Tasks are right sized and appropriately assigned. You will need to perform code reviews to ensure that deliverables meet expectations, and that technical debt is minimized

Minimum Qualification

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or another closely related field.
• 5 – 8 years working experience in related field
• Proven work experience as a Senior Data Engineer, or as a Data Engineering Lead
• Strong Data Bricks and Python skills are a must. SQL skills as an alternative to Python will be considered
• Understand how big data solutions/NOSQL solutions differ from standardized data solutions and can explain why choices made might be different.
• Mature experience working with Cloud Services – Azure, AWS or GCP. This experience will all the candidate to propose appropriate solutions and alternatives
• Strong DevOps understanding including CI/CD

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end technical solution. This means that key decisions, once discussed and debated are appropriately understood.
• Collaborate with Product Development Lead and Business Enablement Lead to ensure that all Stakeholder expectations are met
• Manage the work items on behalf of the team, breaking down and assigning work items per sprint. Managing elements of sprint planning
• DevOps CI/CD pipeline management, control and oversight
• Engage other platform owners and agree optimal integration paths and methods
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Engage with clients in a client-centric manner
• Self-Management and Team work
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas
• Responsible to leverage financial industry experience to build a modern, secure, scalable solution that is appropriate for the clients and partners of the Company
• Contribute to Financial controls and planning