Lead Data Engineer

Summary

Join Hakkoda as a Managed Services Data Engineer Lead and contribute to the reliability, performance, and availability of our software systems. You will work directly with customers, collaborate with internal and external teams, and mentor other associates. As a Lead, you will measure and optimize system performance, anticipate customer needs, and drive continuous improvement. We value open communication and collaboration in a positive and fun team environment. We encourage applications even if you don't meet all qualifications. Hakkoda Portugal offers remote-first work flexibility with access to a Lisbon co-working space.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Mathematics, or a similar analytical field
• 4+ years in related technical roles, 1+ year in management or team leadership
• Experience hiring, developing, and managing a technical team
• Experience designing and developing data warehouses (Teradata, Oracle Exadata, Netezza, SQL Server, Spark)
• Experience building ETL / ELT ingestion pipelines with tools like DataStage, Informatica, Matillion
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and tuning SQL, including analysis of query plans
• Working knowledge of data visualization tools
• Experience with business intelligence/data analytics
• Cloud experience on Snowflake or AWS
• Advanced English
• Management skills (people and agile projects)

Responsibilities

• Monitor, automate, and improve software systems' reliability, performance, and availability
• Work directly with customers to understand their needs
• Collaborate with internal and customer teams to prevent incidents
• Manage infrastructure
• Build effective monitoring systems
• Ensure the smooth operation of computer systems
• Mentor and coach other associates
• Stay current on the ever-changing technical landscape
• Measure and optimize system performance
• Push our capabilities forward
• Get ahead of customer needs
• Innovate for continual improvement
• Challenge yourself and those around you to create high-quality analytical products and services
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud experience on Azure, and GCP
• Experience and expertise in Python and familiarity with the application of modern data science language
• A proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• Competitive meal allowance
• Annual bonus opportunities
• 22 days of paid time off, plus 2 additional days (your birthday and Christmas Eve)
• Initial home office budget
• Work from home allowance
• Technical training and certification programs
• Full access to our cosy co-working space in the heart of Lisbon (Saldanha)