Position: Tech Lead/Data Engineer from Ukraine
Company: Akvelon
Category: Data Engineer
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We invite you to join our team as Tech Lead/Data Engineer for a fixed-budget data engineering project to create Google Cloud Composer Tutorials. It’s a remote, full-time position.

Tech Lead role expectations:
•	Work as an Individual Contractor Data Engineer (write DAGs, scripts, write content) + mentor/manage a team of 2 engineers
•	Cross-functional collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, e.g., technical writers, marketing to help define tutorial scope and outline
•	Technical research to define technical scope, examples, data sets, integrations etc. based on tutorial goals and flow outline
•	IC development of Airflow DAGs, configurations, sizing execution environment, and integrations with various Google Cloud services based on tutorial outlines
•	Technical leadership of 1 SDE, part-time DevOps
•	Create and maintain technical design documents (TDDs) and gain acceptance on TDD from reviewers (Google, open-source etc.)
•	Create and maintain project WBS using fixed budget estimates to track project milestones
•	Breakdown of requirements to tasks, acceptance crireria, quality, completeness, raising any risks, technical concerns etc.
•	Resolving Issues - Technical, technical content
•	Experience preparing proposals - proposal document preparation - summary, technical, milestones, schedule, risks and assumptions
•	Estimate and mangage complexity/scope of technical tasks for level of effort (what's possible for included estimate, what requires a change request)
•	Identify technical risks and escalate to DM
•	Experience creating technical design documents and gaining acceptance by reviewers (Google, open source, etc.)
•	Experience interviewing and evaluating candidates (assumes completed office training to interview candidates)
•	Experienence onboarding new team members to the project
•	Experience managing team member performance and expectations, providing regular feedback to HRs and DMs
Required technical skills:
•	Apache Airflow - including troubleshooting, writing and working with dynamic DAGs, scheduling, high scale/high performance workloads, error troubleshooting, memory troubleshooting, scheduler troubleshooting
•	Python
•	Experience researching and defining technical scope from business requirements, including breaking down business requirements into technical tasks, proposing technical designs to meet business requirements, investigating technical and product documentation
•	Creating and writing technical guides, documentation, readme, TDD, requirements
•	Experience setting and maintaining high-quality written deliverables and code deliverables to meet high-quality expectations

Preferred:
•	Team management and cross fucross-functionalxperience leading cross-functional teams in Data Engineering, DevOps, collaborating with technical writers and product marketing
•	Cloud Composer - including troubleshooting, working with dynamic DAGs, scheduling, high scale/high-performance workloads, error troubleshooting
•	Google Cloud DevOps: Terraform, environment sizing, load testing environment size
•	GKE
•	Communication skills: verbal & written

Overlap - till 11 am PST