Mgr Data Engineer Lead - India

Role Purpose: We're seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building and maintaining robust data pipelines and infrastructure. This role is crucial for ensuring high-quality, reliable, and timely data to support our quantitative analysis, modeling, and research.

Responsibilities:

• Lead & Mentor: Guide and grow a high-performing data engineering team, fostering excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Architect & Build: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading large datasets.
• Infrastructure Management: Manage and optimize data infrastructure (data lakes, warehouses, streaming platforms) for quantitative workloads, ensuring performance and cost-efficiency.
• Data Quality & Governance: Implement robust data quality, governance, and metadata management frameworks.
• Collaborate: Partner closely with quantitative analysts and data scientists to translate their data requirements into technical solutions.
• Strategy & Innovation: Define and execute the data engineering roadmap, evaluating and recommending new technologies to enhance data capabilities.
• Ensure Reliability: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data processes, ensuring data security, privacy, and compliance.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 8+ years in data engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership/management role.
• Technical Expertise (Must-Have):
• Strong proficiency in Python (preferred)/Java/ C++
• Advance-level SQL skills.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark (PySpark preferred) and other big data technologies (Hadoop, Flink, Kafka).
• Solid experience with at least one major cloud platform's data services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• In-depth knowledge of data warehousing/lakehouse platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery).
• Experience with data orchestration tools like Apache Airflow, Prefect, or DBT.
• Leadership & Soft Skills:
• Exceptional leadership, team-building, and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking.

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