Manager – Data Engineer
CapCircle Management Consultants
Job description
About the role
We are looking for a Manager – Data Engineer to lead a team in designing and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines within a fast‑paced telecommunications environment. The role involves overseeing the development of enterprise‑grade data platforms while ensuring data governance, quality, and performance across cloud and hybrid systems.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines and integration workflows across multiple systems.
- Lead a team of data engineers to build and support enterprise‑grade data platforms.
- Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance are embedded in engineering solutions.
- Optimize data ingestion, transformation, and storage in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Collaborate with architecture, governance, and analytics teams to align with business needs and platform strategy.
- Stay current with evolving data engineering best practices and emerging technologies.
Required profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field (Master’s preferred).
- 6–10 years of data engineering, ETL development or data warehousing experience, with at least 2 years in a team‑lead or managerial capacity.
- Hands‑on experience building and maintaining data pipelines in high‑volume transactional environments.
- Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Analytics, Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate, Apache Spark or Kafka.
Required skills
- Data lakehouse architecture, real‑time streaming and batch processing.
- Cloud platforms: Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure.
- Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.
- ETL development and data pipeline construction.
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