Data Engineer Team Lead

Your responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day work of the Data Engineering team, including technical direction, planning, prioritization, and delivery.
• Translate client requirements into clear technical scope, implementation activities, estimates, and delivery plans.
• Contribute to solution design by proposing approaches, reviewing architectural decisions, and constructively challenging them when appropriate.
• Work closely with the Data Architect to ensure proposed solutions are practical, scalable, and aligned with implementation needs.
• Coordinate team priorities, task ownership, dependencies, and progress.
• Review technical solutions, code changes, database changes, and implementation approaches.
• Support engineers with technical decisions and blockers.
• Take ownership of problems and drive them through investigation, resolution, and validation.
• Identify risks and dependencies early and coordinate with the relevant teams to resolve them.
• Collaborate with Backend, AI, QA, DevOps, Product, and Architecture teams.
• Communicate progress, risks, estimates, and technical decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Our requirements

• Strong experience in data engineering, technical leadership, and delivery coordination.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform, such as AWS (preferably), Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with cloud services for batch processing, object storage, relational databases, messaging, containers, and serverless computing.
• Experience with Apache Spark.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, relational databases, and data modelling.
• Experience with Git-based development, code reviews, and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with web scraping and web parsing.
• Understanding of Master Data Management.
• Ability to understand client requirements and translate them into technical scope, estimates, and delivery plans.
• Ability to evaluate technical and architectural proposals, suggest alternatives, and provide constructive feedback.
• Strong ownership and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving blockers.
• Clear communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Optional

• Candidates with equivalent experience from other cloud platforms and engineering tools

What we offer

• This is a contract position.

Benefits

• sharing the costs of sports activities
• private medical care
• sharing the costs of foreign language classes
• sharing the costs of professional training & courses
• life insurance
• remote work opportunities
• flexible working time
• corporate products and services at discounted prices
• integration events
• coffee / tea
• drinks
• sharing the costs of tickets to the movies, theater
• employee referral program
• opportunity to obtain permits and licenses
• extra leave

DataArt Poland sp. z o.o.