Job Description

Role Overview:
The Technical Lead for the Data Platform is responsible for overseeing the delivery of data platform solutions and technical standards. This role drives leading a team for successful implementation of scalable secure and high-performing data platforms ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical excellence.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain data pipelines to extract data from diverse sources and populate the data lake and data warehouse.

• Develop data transformation rules and data modeling capabilities to support business requirements.

• Collaborate with Product Analysts Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to identify and transform data making it understandable and actionable.

• Work with the data governance team to implement data quality checks and maintain data catalogs.

• Utilize orchestration logging and monitoring tools to build resilient production-grade pipelines.

• Apply test-driven development methodology when building ELT/ETL pipelines.

• Analyze data to support business insights and reporting.

• Use Git for version control and understand various branching strategies.

• Participate as part of an agile team contributing to sprint planning reviews and retrospectives.

• Create technical documentation as needed to support platform operations and onboarding.

Technical Leadership

• Provide guidance on architecture design and implementation of cloud-based data platforms.

• Collaborate with data engineers architects and operations teams to ensure best practices are followed.

• Drive adoption of modern data technologies and frameworks.

• Translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

• Communicate progress risks and mitigation plans effectively to stakeholders.

• Experience in data modeling and data mapping.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure data security privacy and compliance with regulatory standards.

• Implement monitoring logging and performance optimization strategies.

Team Leadership

• Mentor and guide technical teams fostering a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Technical Expertise:

  Strong knowledge of data platforms (e.g. AWS Azure Data Services Databricks).Proficiency in data engineering concepts: ETL data modeling streaming with CI/CD and DevOps experience with AWS services (S3 IAM Redshift Sagemaker Glue Lambda Step Functions CloudWatch).Experience with platforms like Databricks in Python / Java and SQL (Redshift preferred).Experience with Jenkins CloudFormation Terraform Git with Spark/ using Airflow for to work in cross-functional teams.

• Soft Skills:

  Excellent communication and stakeholder problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Engineering or a related field.

• 8 years in data engineering or platform roles with at least 3 years in a leadership/delivery capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Azure).

• Experience with data governance tools and frameworks.

• Exposure to AI/ML data pipelines.

Location: Prague

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern (e.g. even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral program
• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora discount programs
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner
• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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