Data Platform Engineering Team Lead

Euromonitor International

Role - Data Platform Engineering Team Lead

The Team Leader will collaborate with and support technology teams, data researchers, data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. This person would also be key in the distribution of knowledge and skills around data manipulation and data flow services to the wider Technology team/members. 

Ability to work with Azure Cloud data related services and Microsoft SQL Server is essential to the role but not limited to them. 

To ensure consistent operational functionality Data Engineering Team Leader is expected to get involved in occasional intervention responding to critical issues outside of core hours. The workload would be typically shared across team members and appropriate compensation would be given in return for the time served. 

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the positions scope and function in the company. 

Role & responsibilities

• Team Leadership - A team leader must set and review challenging objectives which would keep each member motivated and continuously improving, conduct interview processes to find new members. 
• Product Management Contribute to work refinement, planning and prioritization. 
• Data Solutions Implementation Applying business-data logic to identify, design and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing. 
• Performance and Testing - Need to ensure that products in production perform as efficiently and effectively as possible. At the same time follow internal testing practices applying appropriate review strategies. 
• Continuous Learning - The Engineer is expected to always be up to date with industry standards and technological advancements that would improve the quality of product development, to apply the knowledge to enhance business continuity, performance, security and costs savings. 
• Creating best practices - Create, lead and contribute to creation of best practices and standards which must be followed when creating any business solutions that the team owns.
• Monitoring and Support Ensure any services that the team owns are always in best health, respond to incidents and propose solutions for improvements. 
• Training/Coaching - Spread the knowledge learned. Train and coach colleagues how to work with various products, services that the team owns and what standards and best practices to follow. 
• Documentation - Create required documentation to meet business objectives and compliance requirements.  

Technical skills/experiences:

• Highly skilled in

  SQL(T-SQL)

  programming 
• Highly skilled in D

  ata Processing and Integration Tools

  (ADF / SSIS) 
• Skilled in

  Data Storage and Management Systems, Data Formats

  (RDBMS / NoSQL / JSON / XML) 
• Skilled in working with

  Microsoft Azure Data Services

• Skilled in

  CI/CD Tools

  (preferably Azure DevOps) 
• Skilled in writing

  infrastructure as code scripts

  (ARM Templates / PowerShell / Bash) 
• Skilled in

  Agile

  methodologies 
• Advanced programming skills 
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certified 
• Microsoft Data Engineer Associate certified 
• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate certified 
• Experience in Microsoft PowerApps.
• Experience in Business Intelligence tools (SSRS / PowerBI / Tableau) 
• Advantageous – degree in Computer science, IT or similar 
• Advantageous – any other data engineering or Cloud platform certifications