Lead Data Engineer (GCP)

Lead data engineers at Thoughtworks develop modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions. They might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems. On projects, they will be leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product. Alongside hands-on coding, they are leading the team to implement the solution.

Requirements

• Lead and manage data engineering projects from inception to completion, including goal-setting, scope definition and ensuring on-time delivery with cross team collaboration
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their strategic objectives and identify opportunities to leverage data and data quality
• Design, develop and operate modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions
• Create, design and develop intricate data processing pipelines, addressing clients' most challenging problems
• Collaborate with data scientists to design scalable implementations of their models
• Write clean and iterative code based on TDD and leverage various continuous delivery practices to deploy, support and operate data pipelines
• Lead and advise clients on how to use different distributed storage and computing technologies from the plethora of options available
• Develop data models by selecting from a variety of modeling techniques and implementing the chosen data model using the appropriate technology stack
• Be responsible for data governance, data security and data privacy to support business and compliance requirements
• Define the strategy for and incorporate data quality into your day-to-day work

Benefits

• Career growth opportunities
• Mentorship and coaching
• Autonomy and independence
• Opportunities to work on diverse projects
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment