Big Data Tech Lead

• Lead and manage teams working on large, complex, end-to-end data platforms and pipelines.
• Develop deep understanding of the structure, semantics, and business meaning of complex data landscapes.
• Own the technical architecture of the platform, designing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud-based data solutions.
• Translate business requirements into technical strategies and execution plans for projects of any size.
• Create and communicate technical artifacts, including architecture diagrams, data models, data dictionaries, and technical design documentation.
• Act as the primary technical authority, unblocking the team and guiding complex technical decisions.
• Define delivery plans, estimates, and priorities; clearly communicate plans, progress, and risks to the team and to clients.
• Ensure high-quality delivery at both code and platform levels, enforcing engineering, data quality, and operational standards.
• Perform and oversee peer code reviews, promoting clean code, reusable patterns, testing, and strong Git practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform reliability, efficiency, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Anticipate technical, delivery, and operational risks; escalate issues proactively and plan mitigations.
• Own responsibilities beyond development, including infrastructure, monitoring, production support, maintenance, and operational processes.
• Establish and enforce observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs/SLAs) and lead incident response when needed.
• Work across teams, providing architectural guidance and governance beyond the immediate team.
• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and career growth.
• Participate in talent assessment decisions to ensure strong team composition.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading teams on complex IT or data platform projects.
• Strong experience with end-to-end big data pipelines (batch, streaming, or hybrid).
• Advanced proficiency in SQL (queries, performance tuning, indexing, partitioning).
• Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages, following clean and modular engineering practices.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and cost optimization.
• Expertise in data platform architecture, including modern paradigms such as Lambda, Kappa, microservices, and event-driven pipelines.
• Strong background in data modeling (dimensional, normalized, and data vault models).
• Ability to independently deliver and oversee tasks of any complexity.
• Excellent business and technical acumen, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business impact.
• Proven experience defining and managing CI/CD pipelines, automation, and release strategies.
• Strong experience debugging and resolving complex production issues in data platforms.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence driving discussions and providing clear updates to clients and stakeholders.
• Experience working with agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum).
• Strong organizational skills, including prioritization, estimation, and management of competing priorities.
• Advanced English proficiency for client-facing communication and documentation.
• Experience defining organization-wide data quality frameworks, data contracts, and anomaly detection.
• Hands-on experience with data governance, lineage, cataloging, and access control.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
• Experience leading technology evaluations and Proofs of Concept (PoCs).
• Experience providing cross-team architectural governance or acting as a platform steward.
• Background influencing engineering culture at scale, including documentation, observability, and review practices.
• Must be based in Latin America.