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The Data Engineering Technical Anchor for Integrated Services Data team acts as technical Subject Matter Expert on product functionalities integrations and anticipated roadmap and is responsible for designing solutions with architecture organizing learning events for team strictly adopting technology with standard application stack for development leveraging development Security operations to write production ready software takes complete responsibility of infrastructure required for the applications to work and enforces software craftmanship standards across the teams he/she works for.
Responsibilities- Requirements Gathering & Prioritization: Elicit and prioritize requirements from stakeholders across the teams balancing business needs with technical feasibility and resource constraints. This includes actively engaging with data engineers data scientists and business users.
- Product Design & Development: Lead and collaborate with Architects and data engineers to design develop and launch new features and improvements to the data ingestion platform. This includes creating detailed product specifications user stories and acceptance criteria
- Deliver Data product as a Technical Anchor and mange cloud Data Engineer engineers using Object Oriented software design with Agile/Iterative developmentusing PDO methodologies. Strictly adopts Technology and Architecture standards
- Work hands-on with the team and other stakeholders to deliver quality data products that meet our customers requirements and needs.
- Product Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor platform performance user adoption and identify areas for improvement. This includes analyzing usage data from post launch conducting user surveys and gathering feedback.
- Customer Discovery: Regularly engage with POs and PMs to understand their needs pain points and expectations. Work with product owners and product managers to define the features
- Leadership Reviews: Prepare and present regular product technical updates and performance reviews to leadership.
- Leverages logging tools such as Tekton FOSSA SonarQube Checkmarx Cycode to support DevOps and debug production issues
- Foster DevOps CI/CD infrastructure and an Automated Testing mentality and capability. Champion continuous technical improvement for the platform pursue tech debt opportunities.
- 5 Years of experience in guiding and mentoring the teams grow technical capabilities / expertise and provide guidance to other members on the team
Qualifications- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Business Administration or a related field. Masters degree is a plus.
- 7 years of experience in building testing and maintaining software applications using SQL Python or any major programming language.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS Azure GCP).
- 5 years of experience in designing building maintaining and using GCP : BigQuery Cloud Storage Dataproc Cloud Run Artifact Registry Vault Secret Manager
- 3 years of experience in architecting Data solution in cloud. Deep understanding of data ingestion principles technologies and best practices. Hands-on experience is a MUST.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in building configuring maintaining and decommissioning the infrastructure (on-prem or cloud).
- Minimum 3 years of experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployments using Jenkins or Tekton or any native cloud-based tool. Dev Security Operations scans like SonarQube fossa cycode and checkmarx.
- Experience with various data types (structured unstructured real-time batch)
- Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with Agile development methodologies. Experience on JIRA is a plus.
- Experience with data visualization (Looker Tableau) and analytics tools is a plus.
- Experience in guiding and mentoring the teams to build production ready applications