Technical Lead (DWH team)

Owns the technical direction, quality, and delivery enablement of the data platform within the team. Ensures scalable architecture, reliable releases, and strong engineering practices while enabling the team to deliver efficiently within defined engineering and release standards.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Ownership

Owns end-to-end technical design across Snowflake, dbt, ADF, and Azure components

Acts as the final technical decision authority within the team

Ensures alignment with enterprise architecture and data governance standards

Maintains architecture documentation and diagrams

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Engineering Excellence

Defines and enforces coding standards and best practices

Reviews critical PRs and ensures maintainability and scalability

Drives performance optimization and cost efficiency

Continuously improves development efficiency by reducing technical complexity and removing bottlenecks

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CI/CD & Release Ownership

Owns and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes

Defines and enforces the release process, ensuring it is standardized and consistently followed

Establishes release criteria based on Definition of Done, testing, and required approvals

Ensures all changes meet release criteria before deployment to production

Oversees and coordinates production releases, including validation of readiness and risk assessment

Has authority to block releases that do not meet defined quality and governance standards

Ensures pipelines enforce quality gates (tests, validations, approvals where required)

Continuously improves release safety and reduces production incidents

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Quality & Definition of Done

Ensures adherence to Definition of Done (including testing and documentation)

Works with QA and team to ensure test coverage aligns with acceptance criteria

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Team Enablement & Mentoring

Mentors engineers and supports technical growth

Leads knowledge sharing and supports complex problem-solving

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Planning & Delivery Support

Contributes to sprint planning with technical estimates, risks, and dependencies

Owns identification and prioritization of technical debt in collaboration with the Product Owner

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Production Ownership

Leads incident analysis and root cause resolution

Ensures monitoring, alerting, and data quality validation mechanisms are in place across pipelines and in production

Maintains runbooks for operational readiness

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Ways of Working

Collaborates closely with Product Owner and Scrum Master to align technical delivery with business priorities; supports team continuity and helps facilitate meetings when the Scrum Master is absent

Proactively works with upstream data source teams and other squads to resolve cross-team dependencies, data issues, and production bugs

Drives technical alignment across teams/squads where shared data models, pipelines, or integrations are involved

Acts as the primary technical point of contact for external teams and stakeholders

Skills

Must have

7+ experience in Data Engineering and development of DWH solutions

Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory

Experience with Azure Cloud Solutions, Azure DevOps

Practical experience and understanding of CI/CD processes

Experience of technical leadership in Agile SDLC

Nice to have

Experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud solutions

Certifications related to DWH

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Lead