Senior Team Lead, Operational Data Services, Analytical Data Platform Services

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and manage a team of four: three data engineers and one service manager – set direction, prioritize work, and grow the team’s technical and delivery capabilities.
• Own a core cloud data application end to end, taking responsibility for driving its ongoing development, service, and reliable operation.
• Support roadmap initiatives and contribute to the vision for the application and the broader analytical data platform, translating strategic direction into concrete deliverables.
• Contribute hands-on to data engineering work, including data onboarding for the operational data warehouse and analytical backbone, building and maintaining data pipelines, and developing end-to-end data applications.
• Drive data quality, performance, and reliability across the platform and applications (completeness, timeliness, correctness), and deliver analytics projects that create value for the business.
• Participate in and contribute to cross-functional collaboration teams as required.

Qualifications

• Experienced senior data engineer with people leadership experience
• Strong hands-on technical foundation in modern data engineering and cloud-based data environments
• Understanding of data lake / lakehouse architectures and structured data processing (e.g., Delta Lake concepts)
• Experience with integration patterns in distributed systems (API-based integrations, event-driven architecture, message queues, batch vs. real-time processing)
• Knowledge of data modeling concepts (semantic models, canonical data models, mapping structures, enrichment logic)
• Practical experience with structured data formats such as JSON, XML, EDI, CSV, and working with APIs and API payloads
• Understanding of data quality frameworks, monitoring approaches, and data validation techniques
• Familiarity with CI/CD principles, DevOps practices, and version-controlled deployment in data environments
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and to deliver them hands-on together with the team and IT