Data Engineering and Management Team Leader

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Team Leader is responsible for leading a team of Data Engineers, Data Engineering Tech Leads, Data Architects, Data Engineering Architects working in technologies like Azure, Databricks, AWS, Snowflake, Python. Team located in Poland, 20+ people delivering various projects.

Tasks:

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 Data Engineering and Management Competency Center 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 Data Engineering and Management Competency Center 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 Data Engineering and Management Competency Center.

Customer satisfaction:

Helping team members to achieve high customer satisfaction on their tasks.
Supporting Account Teams and Go-to-market 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 Account Teams 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 Data Engineering and Management Competency Center 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
Project Manager
Engagement Manager

What We're Looking For:

Essential:

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
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.
Presentation skills.
High ambition, motivation, and passion to achieve things that no one achieved before.

What Will Set You Apart:

Proficiency in some of: Python, PySpark, SQL, Snowflake and cloud-native data tools (Databricks, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, S3, Athena, Amazon EMR). 
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.

Missing one or two of these qualifications? We still want to hear from you! If you bring a positive mindset, we'll provide an environment where you feel valued and empowered to learn and grow.

We offer: