Lead Data Engineer

Job Description:

Likewize is searching for a Lead Data Engineer to join our team at our global Headquarters in Southlake, TX.

In this role, you will play a pivotal role in driving data-driven decision-making across our global organization. Your mission will be to design, develop, and maintain a data platform that empowers teams with actionable insights. Through innovative technology solutions and collaborative teamwork, you will shape our data-driven future. The role requires good knowledge of big data technologies, data warehousing, infrastructure, IaC, CI/CD and their integration.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.

• Lead the design of solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and data accuracy.

• Supervise the technical implementation of data pipelines and oversee hardware/software configuration.

• Develop applications, dashboards, and reports using technologies like python, spark, SQL, data warehouses, and visualization tools.

• Ensure the development and documentation of business and technical metadata.

• Develop, implement, and maintain test strategies and plan.

• Translate project requirements into functional and non-functional specifications for reports and applications.

• Establish and maintain data governance standards to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulations.

• Ensure completeness and compatibility of the technical infrastructure to support system performance, availability, and architecture requirements.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, project leads and business users to identify requirements, conduct analysis, propose solutions and deliver actionable insights to various business units.

• Continuously monitor and optimize solutions for performance and user experience.

• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies in data and analytics to suggest and implement improvements.

• Sell and evangelize the value of data, analytics, and sound data management to executive sponsors of the program, business users, and IT Managers.

• Provide support and expertise to the business community at Likewize to assist with better utilization of Business Intelligence tools and IT solutions for competitive advantage measures.

If you are who we are looking for, you will have the following education, skills and/or experience.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

• At least 10 years of experience in big data architectures, data warehouse, infrastructure components, ETL, data modeling.

• Proven experience in leading global team with a strong track record of successful project delivery.

• Big data technologies/services expertise (Delta Lake, Lakehouse, Medallion, Spark, Python, Kinesis, S3, Glue, EMR, Airflow, Step Functions, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, ML) AWS preferred.

• Proficiency in managing visualizations, reports, dashboards, scorecards using Power BI.

• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

• Ability to perform detailed data analysis.

• Knowledge of any of the following would be valuable: Master Data Management, DAX.

• Prior working experience in Telecom (Billing and/or CRM) and Supply Chain systems

Our global headquarters in Southlake TX is easily accessible to both Dallas and Fort Worth and we are 5 minutes from Southlake Town Square. We offer competitive compensation, market leading benefits and many fantastic onsite amenities through our real estate partner, VariSpace. VariSpace is designed to elevate the way businesses approach the office. Our innovative workspace brings a first-class employee experience with covered parking, spacious break areas, raffles/games, onsite gym, cafeteria, and state of the art facilities.