Position: Tech Lead Data Engineer
Company: Akvelon Tech Ukraine
Experience required: 5y
Category: Data Engineer
English level: upper
Published: 2023-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Role expectations:
- Work as an IC 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
- 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 criteria, quality, completeness, raising any risks, technical concerns etc.
- Resolving Issues 
- Experience preparing proposals
- Estimate and manage complexity/scope of technical tasks for level of effort.
 -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)
- Experience onboarding new team members to the project
- Experience managing team member performance and expectations, providing regular feedback to HRs and DMs

Qualifications:
- 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
- Communication skills: verbal & written

Nice to have:
- Experience 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
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We offer:
- Professional and personal growth.
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills.
- Compensation for sick leaves and regular vacations.
- Flexible work hours, remote.