Position: Engineering Manager for Big Data Competency  Staff Engineer
Company: Processica
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

The company's cloud-based analytics platform provides operational efficiency and improves on-time delivery by arming Supply Chain teams with data and actions aimed at reducing shortages, optimizing inventory, and improving work. The platform utilizes predictive and prescriptive analytics to support inventory decisions, find opportunities to get ahead of future shortages, and drive collaboration across teams, suppliers, and factory sites.

The company is looking for a high-level technical leadership for the team. The technical leader for the team:

Analyses future roadmap product requirements and technology trends, and builds a technology roadmap for the team: what technologies will we use? How will they benefit our customers and internal needs? How will we migrate to these technologies? What sort of resources will be needed for these transitions? What are the steps to get to the adoption of these technologies? What is a realistic timeline for these transitions?
Introduces new concepts and technologies, acting as an individual contributor that builds prototypes all the way through usage in production.
Sets guidelines and standards for newly introduced technologies and their usage.
Introduces development tools for using new technologies.
Mentors team members on adopting new technologies.

Requirements:

Experience Implementing systems using Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, ColumnStore, or other big data processing systems.
Proficiency with Java and relational databases
Experience in the introduction of new technologies to a software development team:
Inception and driving decision for the technology stack
Planning resources and time
Prototyping and risk mitigation
Laying out the roadmap and driving the on-time completion of the project
Rolling out to production at scale
Excellent capability to mentor team members in new technologies
Building dev tools
Writing easy to follow guidelines and how-to’s
Working 1:1 with developers to ensure smooth adoption of the technology
A high degree of business acumen and understanding of our market that allows aligning company and product goals to the technology roadmap
Proven ability to work with other departments (Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Support, Sales) to understand pain points and ensure that the solutions being implemented address those.

Nice to Have:

Experience with AWS technologies such as Athena, Glue, Sagemaker, Lambda, Step Functions, Terraform, CloudFormation