Lead Data Engineer

In this position, you'd lead a team of data engineers providing direction, training, and guidance to implement software solutions. Collaborate with a cross functional team, which includes developers, product managers, QA engineers, and business analysts, to implement solutions tightly aligned with business objectives. Partner with other engineering leads to design cloud infrastructure solutions and build with quality, security, and scalability. Use the latest data flow technologies and cloud services to produce exceptional software within a continuous integration/continuous delivery environment.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Management and other functional teams to evaluate, develop, and maintain product features for Provation products.
• Mentor and provide professional development for team members.
• Help plan and prioritize engineering team activities and backlog.
• Develop product expertise, technical mastery and build a team.
• Ensure standards and framework compliance across the development team.
• Lead team to deliver planned commitments on time.
• Learn, understand, and use innovative technologies to gain competitive advantage.
• Creatively brainstorm and innovate on prototypes as well as future products and features to drive the business forward.
• Proactively research industry trends and best practices to apply them as necessary
• Deliver high-quality and on-schedule work according to Agile software development methodology.
• Participate in Agile activities including daily stand ups, estimations, and backlog grooming and reviews.
• Provide internal development support which includes delivering fast and high-quality fixes to urgent production issues.
• Actively create opportunities for code/component re-use
• Leverage existing frameworks, platforms, and patterns to increase time to market.
• Promote and ensure standards and framework compliance across the development team.
• Participate in code reviews providing guidance to Development and QA team members.

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• At least 5-7 years software development experience
• Proficiency with dynamic languages such as Python or compiled languages such as Rust
• Experience with web-based technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, LESS and HTML5
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Pytest
• Experience with SQL and relational databases such PostgreSQL
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Solid knowledge of security and encryption best practices