Data Engineer Lead

The Data Engineer Lead will join our data engineering capability in ELC’s Eastern European Center, located in Bucharest. Helping ELC to become a data-driven organization, the role is responsible for managing the Data Ingestion Service as well as maintaining and evolving the Data Ingestion Framework software.

Working within a virtual global team, the profile will have the opportunity to work on analytical projects across the entire enterprise. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Engineer Lead will support our global team on data initiatives and will ensure consistency and adherence to the standards and guidelines of the platforms.

Must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

Main Responsabilities :

• Manage delivery across multiple concurrent data ingestion projects
• Manage a capacity plan for the Data Ingestion Service. Liaise with global team to address constraints and adapt resources and / or stakeholder expectations.
• Onboard and train developers in the use of the Data Ingestion Framework software
• Manage the Data Ingestion Service budget. Record Actuals, track Actuals vs Plan, liaise with global team to request additional sources of funding as needed.
• Ability to adjust prioritization according to business needs.
• Design, build and deploy optimized, sustainable data pipelines and data products leveraging ELC best practices and development frameworks
• Maintain and evolve the data ingestion framework and collaborate with the other team members to make architectural changes
• Define and evolve best practices, standards and guidelines; assist in rolling out Continuous Integrations and Delivery methodology.
• Coach data engineers on best practices and technical concepts behind large-scale data platform
• Create functional & technical documentation – e.g., ETL architecture documentation, unit testing plans and results, data integration specifications, etc.

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