Job Description

As a Lead Data Engineer, you operate as a technical orchestrator and a guardian of excellence across our real-time operational data ecosystem. You are positioned at the critical intersection of high-level requirement analysis, distributed systems design, and hands-on delivery. You will balance deep data architecture with infrastructure architecture, bridging the gap between data pipelines and cloud-native container platforms. Your time will be balanced across three core pillars:

40% High-Level Design & Architecture: Reviewing incoming business requirements, driving technical discussions, and mapping out scalable, distributed data architectures.
40% Hands-On Engineering: Writing clean, testable code alongside the team, implementing core platform features, building reusable components and undertaking support requests.
20% Mentorship & Technical Governance: Cultivating the engineering squad's capabilities, managing technical debt, and defining