Senior Data Engineering (Tech Lead)
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Job Summary
The Product Intelligence team serves a critical role by providing business intelligence to the organization: we synthesize data sources across the company delivering product usage and business insights that directly shape product strategy and decision-making.
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineering (Tech Lead) to lead our team of data engineers and to bring your experience and vision in data warehouse design data modeling and data visualization. We are seeking an individual with a strong data background but also an AI-first mentality who can drive our current initiatives to leverage AI for accelerating modeling and dashboarding tasks as well as exposing our telemetry data to stakeholders across the company in the form of an AI agent and MCP.
What youll do
- Partner with the Product Manager to shape the roadmap refine scope and define clear actionable acceptance criteria.
- Own the technical architecture for data warehousing data modeling and data access patterns.
- Lead the team technically to design implement deliver and validate scalable data pipelines and reporting solutions.
- Drive the design and evolution of the analytics layer including semantic modeling and dashboarding within BI tools.
- Define and implement an AI-first approach to data including AI-assisted workflows for modeling analysis and dashboard creation.
- Architect and deliver an AI-powered interface (agent) that enables stakeholders to access and explore telemetry data in a self-service manner.
- Enable integration of telemetry insights into internal tools and workflows by providing and maintaining supporting capabilities (e.g. MCP or equivalent interfaces).
- Establish data engineering standards best practices and measurable quality indicators to ensure high-quality maintainable code.
- Ensure scalability reliability and performance of data platforms pipelines and analytics workloads.
- Mentor and support data engineers through technical guidance code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Promote an agile iterative engineering culture and actively contribute to team ceremonies.
Qualifications :
Data Engineering Experience
- Masters degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- 7 years of experience as a Data Engineer including at least 1 year in a Tech Lead or similar leadership role.
- Strong expertise in database design data modeling and handling both structured and unstructured data.
- Strong system design and architectural skills with the ability to design scalable data platforms.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python with solid experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Familiarity with modern data stack tools such as dbt AWS Lambda Step Functions Glue Athena Redshift or similar.
- Exposure to telemetry data systems and large-scale product analytics.
- Experience building internal data platforms or self-service analytics solutions.
- Hands-on experience with the AWS cloud platform.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI QuickSight Tableau or similar.
- Practical knowledge of DevOps practices CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Git.
- Experience with containerization and infrastructure tools (e.g. Docker Terraform Jenkins).
- Proven ability to own projects end-to-end and operate with a high level of autonomy.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with fluency in English.
AI & Advanced Capabilities
- Experience building and deploying AI-powered data systems including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLM-based applications.
- Familiarity with LLM frameworks (e.g. LangChain LlamaIndex) and integrating LLM APIs into production workflows.
- Experience designing AI agents or intelligent data interfaces (e.g. chat-to-data NL-to-SQL).
- Understanding of semantic data modeling to enable natural language interaction with structured data.
- Ability to evaluate monitor and scale AI systems with strong architectural judgment for integrating AI into data platforms.
Additional Information :
We are the pioneers and trailblazers of a global IT Market Category (DEX) that is shaping the future of how the world works giving our customers IT Teams total digital visibility across their enterprise. Our innovative solutions integrate real-time analytics automation and employee feedback across all endpoints. This enables our IT teams to solve complex technical challenges create ever more productive workplaces and deliver happy satisfied employees in the digital workplace.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue ... View more