Data Engineering and Management Team Leader

What You’ll Be Doing

People management:

Recruiting and building the highly effective team.

Ensure high utilization for team members by timely staffing projects and other engagements, building awareness of DE&M CC outside competency and building relationships with key stakeholders within Lingaro.

Engages with Go-to-market and Account teams to understand customer requirements an expectations.

Regular checkpoints with team members, overseeing their long-term growth and satisfaction.

Giving regular feedback. Recognize good performance. React and manage low performance.

Being a role model for the team; promoting integrity and follow up with processes.

Building team atmosphere and ensure members wellbeing.

DE&M competency development:

Developing and maintaining team operating rhythm.

Support DE&M Competency strategy implementation.

Proactively participate in improving competency unit in Lingaro, by leading initiatives, taking part in leaders discussions.

Participation in creation, communicating, implementing, and executing processes and guidelines defined for all company and DE&M CC.

Customer satisfaction:

Helping team members to achieve high customer satisfaction on their tasks.

Supporting ADM and GtM in building and maintaining relations with customers (mostly through close cooperation during project acquisition, delivery and maintenance).

Nice to have - Business development and profitability:

Collaborate with ADMs on offers effort estimation and costing.

Help Team Members to search for new opportunities, take responsibility for some presales processes.

Support offers and presentations (e.g., success stories) preparation.

Support developing DE&M CC business within the area by presales support and additional actions.

Ensuring profitability on a team at and individual level.

Be able to work on a project in at least one of the following roles:

Data Engineering Tech Lead

Data Engineering Architect

Solution Architect

Business Analyst

Engagement Manager

Project Manager

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in a similar position.
• Proven experience in leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
• Experience in people management, customer management, project delivery.
• Strong, proven knowledge and experience in the following fields: Data
• Engineering, Data Management.
• High level of ownership.
• Self-driven and proactive approach.
• Excellent communication, analytical, decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Working with stakeholders on different seniority and maturity level.
• Very good communication skills and strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in managing medium-sized projects.
• Good understanding of business value of analytical solutions to Lingaro customers, the way Lingaro operates and which factors are important for customer satisfaction.
• Deep understanding of the Customer’s business and how IT contributes to the delivery of service.
• Ability to combine technical and business topics.
• Very good client skills.
• Understanding and proven experience working with AI tools and framework that speed up D&A delivery process (Claude code, GitHub Copilot etc.).
• Presentation skills.
• High ambition, motivation, and passion to achieve things that no one achieved before.
• English at least B2 plus.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in some of: Python, PySpark, SQL and cloud-native data tools (Databricks, Azure Data Factory).
• Experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT, data quality frameworks, and distributed computing.
• Familiarity with AI/ML Ops/GenAI, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience in CPG industry.
• Knowledge and experience in BI, DWH, Cloud solutions, AI etc.

Offer

Stable employment. On the market since 2008, 1500+ talents currently on board in 7 global sites.
“Office as an option” model. You can choose to work remotely or in the office.
Workation.Enjoy working from inspiring locations in line with our workation policy.
Great Place to Work® certified employer.
Flexibility regarding working hours and your preferred form of contract.
Comprehensive online onboarding program with a “Buddy” from day 1.
Cooperation with top-tier engineers and experts.
Unlimited access to the Udemy learning platform from day 1.
Certificate training programs. Lingarians earn 500+ technology certificates yearly.
Upskilling support. Capability development programs, Competency Centers, knowledge sharing sessions, community webinars, 110+ training opportunities yearly.
Grow as we grow as a company. 76% of our managers are internal promotions.
A diverse, inclusive, and values-driven community.
Autonomy to choose the way you work. We trust your ideas.
Create our community together. Refer your friends to receive bonuses.
Activities to support your well-being and health.
Plenty of opportunities to donate to charities and support the environment.
Modern office equipment. Purchased for you or available to borrow, depending on your location.