Lead Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis of client's business requirements to deliver strategic data solutions that align with organizational goals.
• Oversee the design and development of data models and advanced Power BI dashboards, ensuring actionable insights for senior business stakeholders.
• Drive the implementation and optimization of complex data models in Power BI, leveraging Medallion architecture principles (bronze, silver, gold layers) to ensure scalability and performance.
• Manage end-to-end project delivery, including defining project scope, timelines, and milestones, while ensuring alignment with client expectations and business objectives.
• Establish and enforce best practices in data engineering, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and scalable data solutions that meet industry standards.
• Proactively communicate project updates, risks, and resolutions to stakeholders, driving transparency and trust.
• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Facilitate high-level stakeholder conversations, translating technical concepts into business value and managing expectations to ensure successful project outcomes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or related fields, with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex, end-to-end data solutions.
• Demonstrated project management experience, ensure timely delivery, and manage resources effectively.
• Proven leadership skills, with experience managing and mentoring high-performing teams to achieve project and organizational goals.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage senior leaders, build relationships, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation, transformation, and analysis.
• Extensive experience with Snowflake and Power BI, including advanced dashboard development and optimization.
• Deep expertise in medallion data architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers) and advanced data modeling techniques.
• Advanced knowledge of DAX calculations and measures for sophisticated analytics and performance optimization.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with a track record of proactive client engagement and stakeholder management.
• Self-motivated and results-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to unblock challenges, drive progress, and deliver with minimal supervision.

Benefits

• 100% remote company - We love to give our employees the freedom to choose where they want to work from.
• Wellness - We have monthly wellness programmes & workshops to make sure that all our employees are happy and satisfied.
• Competitive compensation -We offer competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• Parental Leave: We value and support the family planning process and we provide paid parental leave.
• Healthcare - We cover all employees’ health benefits and their dependents.
• Offsite- 1 team offsite a year to incredible destinations. Check out our recent offsites here: Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bali

About 5X

• 5X is a data and AI platform focused on traditional industries (like Banking, Manufacturing, Retail, Real Estate, Healthcare, Education,Government).
• Traditional businesses are struggling with data silos, poor data quality - slowing the entire business now. These businesses are using legacy hard to reach systems or use platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Oracle which make it complex to get data out.
• 5X is able to extract data from hard to reach systems, centralize, clean, structure & model it and enable data & agentic Gen AI capabilities.
• Unlike legacy data platform implementations which take months and hundreds of thousands of dollars we are able to demonstrate end to end use cases in 48 hours at a fraction of the price.
• 5X was founded in 2020 with presence in the USA, Singapore, UK and India. Our global team is 70+ people strong and rapidly growing.
• We're backed by Flybridge Capital and creators of popular open source projects like Airflow, Superset, Parquet & founders from companies like Datadog, Astronomer, Mode, Rudderstack.

Know about the Company
• Website: https://5X.co/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datawith5X/mycompany/
• Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Reviews/5X-Reviews-E6110869.htm
• 5X in 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ppi00Lw70