Essential Skills
12+ years overall in data engineering / data platforms, including hands-on build and operations.
4+ years in a people-leadership role, directly managing engineers (hiring, performance and development).
Proven delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms on the cloud; hands-on Snowflake, dbt and AWS strongly preferred.
Experience in financial services or another regulated industry is highly desirable.
Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience). of modern distributed data platforms, with Snowflake and dbt experience valued.
Cloud data platform: Snowflake and dbt (core), plus AWS services (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Lambda) — essential.
Data engineering: SQL and Python; distributed data processing (e.g. Spark); modern ELT pipelines and orchestration.
Data governance & enablement: Data Marketplace / data products, data lineage, and metadata management (cataloguing, discovery, governance).
Engineering practices: CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, and a security- and cost-aware approach.
Desirable: real-time streaming (e.g. Kafka), GenAI/advanced analytics enablement, and large-scale self-service data platforms.
Are natural people leaders with a track record of building and growing high-performing engineering teams.
Pair hands-on engineering credibility with the ability to provide thought leadership and set technical direction.
Have delivered and operated data platforms at enterprise scale, end to end across the agile lifecycle.
Bring an automation and self-service first mindset to complex, large-scale problems.
Have a strong risk mindset, ideally from financial services or a similarly regulated industry.
Own delivery and reliability of enterprise data platforms built on Snowflake, dbt and AWS.
Drive the migration and uplift of our platform to a modern Snowflake + dbt stack, with automation and self-service first.
Build and scale a Data Marketplace that makes trusted, governed data products easy to discover and consume.
Embed strong data lineage and metadata management so data is observable, governed and auditable end to end.
Partner with product owners, architects and risk teams to turn complex problems into scalable, sustainable solutions.
Education/Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology
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