Head of Data Engineering at Kuda

Role Purpose:

The Head of Data Engineering will create a strong community of Data Engineers and Data Scientists across the Kuda product line. The perfect candidate will have strong data infrastructure and data architecture skills, a proven track record of leading and scaling data teams, strong operational skills to drive efficiency and speed, strong project leadership, and a strong vision for how data engineering can proactively create positive impact for companies.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and management to a team of data engineers. You’ll split your time between unblocking your team, vetting their designs, and coaching them to realize their full potential, while also building things yourself.
• Proactively drive the vision for data engineering across the Finance Products pillar, and define and execute on a plan to achieve that vision.
• Proactively mentor and grow the team, identify the required skills, hire the best talent, actively manage their performance and help them to grow to their fullest potential.
• Define the processes needed to achieve operational excellence in all areas, including project management and system reliability.
• Build cross-functional relationships with Data Scientists, Product Managers, Software Engineers, and leaders in Kuda to understand data needs and deliver on those needs.
• Drive the design, building, and launching of new data models and data pipelines in production.
• Manage development of data resources and support new product launches.
• Drive data quality across financial products and related business areas.
• Manage the delivery of high impact dashboards and data visualizations.
• Define and manage SLA’s for all data sets and processes running in production

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering, BI, or Data Warehousing.
• Experience scaling and managing 5+ person teams.
• Communication and leadership experience and experience initiating and driving projects.
• Project management experience.
• Data architecture experience.
• Experience in SQL or similar languages and development experience in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, etc.).
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and Big Query
• Experience with Fivetran DBT and/or any other data transformation tools.
• Experience with AZURE SQL databases/Managed SQL Instance
• Experience working in Financial Technology companies.
• Experience partnering with leaders of Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Operations, and/or Accounting teams.
• Experience with Hive or Presto, data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau), and/or relational database management systems.
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Math, Physics, or other technical fields. (Note to Jenna, I do have a complete JD)

Benefits

• 25 days leave per annum
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working model
• Medical Aid
• Vitality
• Gap Cover
• Pension
• Group Life & Disability
• Performance Bonus Scheme
• Magnificent offices overlooking the Newlands Cricket pitch are under construction and will be open for business at the end of May.