Lead Data Engineer

Data Engineering Team Lead

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you'll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We're driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a Data Engineering Team Lead to engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practice data architecture using Google Cloud solutions.

We really value in-person collaboration, so we're looking for you to spend at least 60% of your time on-site. This means being at our company offices or at a client's site.

How You'll Shape Our Success

The purpose of this role is to lead a team of highly talented Data Engineering Consultants, ensuring they are motivated and have the tools and training to perform their roles to a high standard.

What You'll Do

Lead and inspire an experienced team of data engineers and scientists:

• Carry out one-to-ones with your team members to discuss any issues they're facing, provide support and encouragement and discuss their career goals.
• Design L&D KPIs for your team, helping to grow their skills over time and scale your own knowledge and experience
• Keep on top of administrative duties relating to team leadership - performance reviews, absence management, arranging team-building events etc.
• Play an active role in the recruitment process to bring new people into the business.

Lead client engagements and project delivery:

• Lead client engagements and team lead on client-facing delivery projects
• Consult, design, coordinate architecture to modernise infrastructure for performance, scalability, latency, and reliability
• Identify, scope, and participate in the design and delivery of cloud data platform solutions

Deliver highly scalable big data architecture solutions using Google Cloud Technology:

• Create and maintain appropriate standards and best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and other data technologies
• Design and execute a platform modernization approach for customers' data environments
• Document and share technical best practices/insights with engineering colleagues and the Data Engineering community
• Mentor and develop engineers within the Qodea Data Team and within our customers' engineering teams
• Act as the point of escalation with client-facing problems that need solving