Tech Lead DataOps
Job Summary
We are looking for a Tech Lead DataOps to join a large-scale international program focused on building and scaling the Groups Enterprise Cloud Data Warehouse. The platform centralizes global data across major business domains (Finance Customers Operations etc.) using modern cloud data architectures and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
In this role you will lead the transversal platform and reliability efforts driving industrialization automation CI/CD pipelines and overall platform stability in a fully remote multicultural environment.
Main Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & DataOps Governance
Define and evolve technical standards ensuring the reliability scalability and performance of data workflows.
Lead industrialization and automation initiatives across development and deployment processes supporting multiple squads on DataOps best practices.
Contribute to technical roadmap definitions architecture decisions and continuous ecosystem improvements.
Automation & Platform Engineering
Design maintain and evolve internal development and deployment tooling around dbt Airflow and Snowflake.
Develop and optimize internal CLI tools for automated dbt model generation YAML testing DAG creation and deployment automation.
Contribute to the integration of AI/LLM capabilities into development and DataOps workflows to reduce manual operations.
CI/CD & Deployment Engineering
Design implement and maintain secure and automated multi-environment Data CI/CD pipelines.
Ensure deployment quality during release cycles collaborating with project squads and supporting release governance.
Orchestration Reliability & Operations
Supervise optimize and design Apache Airflow orchestration workflows and execution DAGs.
Implement monitoring alerting and observability capabilities to maximize platform stability and operational efficiency.
Contribute to incident resolution and root cause analysis.
Qualifications :
Requirements
Methodology: Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Data Vault 2.0 methodology applied to enterprise data platforms.
Core Tech Stack: Advanced proficiency in Python (focused on data platforms/automation) and SQL query optimization.
Data Ecosystem & Orchestration: Solid hands-on experience with dbt and Apache Airflow (including DAG design and workflow optimization).
CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure: Good knowledge of DevOps practices using Git/GitLab Jenkins Docker Kubernetes and Snowflake (or equivalent MPP platforms).
Leadership & Soft Skills: Strong transversal technical leadership an autonomous/proactive mindset and excellent communication skills to collaborate with multicultural distributed teams.
Languages: Professional proficiency in both English and French is required.
Nice to have skills
Experience with specific data modeling and automation tools like AutomateDV and DBSchema.
Practical exposure to modern observability and data platform reliability practices.
Experience or strong interest in integrating AI/LLM tooling (such as GitHub Copilot) into DataOps development and deployment workflows.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Talan is an international consulting and technology expertise group that accelerates the transformation of its clients by leveraging innovation, technology, and data. For over 20 years, Talan has been advising and supporting businesses and public institutions in the implementation of ... View more