Technical Lead (DWH team)

Description

Owns the technical direction, quality, and delivery enablement of the data platform within the team. Ensures scalable architecture, reliable releases, and strong engineering practices while enabling the team to deliver efficiently within defined engineering and release standards. ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________

What we offer

• Global Relocation - (Relocation options; Experience in an international environment; Cross-cultural experience)

• Recognition and Evaluation - (Feedback culture; Regular appraisals)

• Time Off - (Annual holiday - 20 or 26 days. The duration of the leave depends on the overall seniority; Occasional leave - 1 or 2 days/ depending on the circumstances; Child care leave - 2 days or 16 hours per year; Absence due to force majeure - 2 days or 16 hours per year; Maternity Leave - 20 weeks; Parental Leave - 41 weeks; Paternity Leave - 14 days)

• Luxoft Training Center - (Expert-led tech courses covering basic to advanced topics; Internal instructor-led soft skills courses; Comprehensive in-house self-learning resources for both soft and hard skills; Access to external self-learning libraries like ProQuest eBook and Udemy for Business; Cloud Programs: MS Cloud Academy, AWS Partner Academy, Google Cloud Academy; Custom Learning Programs: upskilling, reskilling, technical mentorship; Leadership Programs for Managers)

• Well-being and Work-life Balance - (Multisport card; Possibility to order Multisport card at the corporate rate for family members; LuxGood Program: wellbeing seminars, contests, relaxation sessions, yoga sessions, etc.; One Team Program: Buddy for each New Joiner; seminars, meeting and workplace space to support integration with local community and culture; “Hire me” workshops for partners; Preferential banking offer; Preferential car leasing offer; Cafeteria program discounts for shops, cinema tickets, holiday offers; Luxoft Social Benefit Fund: sport and recreation benefits, the possibility to receive financial support)

• Health Care - (Private Healthcare Insurance with unlimited access to specialists; Full dental support; Travel Insurance; Possibility to add private healthcare coverage for family members at the corporate rate; Life insurance at the corporate rate for employees and family members, including payment of the basic package for the employee by the employer; Reimbursement for corrective glasses)

• Company Events and Friendly Environment - (Many fun social activities organized by the Luxoft team offline in your city; Online entertainment events for whole company and local team events; A workplace where you’re treated with respect within a multicultural team)

• Internal Mobility - (Rotation between projects and accounts; New career opportunities)

• Self-Learning Library

• CSR Projects

Other

• Languages: English: C1 Advanced

• Seniority: Lead

Requirements

• 7+ experience in Data Engineering and development of DWH solutions

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory

• Experience with Azure Cloud Solutions, Azure DevOps

• Practical experience and understanding of CI/CD processes

• Experience of technical leadership in Agile SDLC

• Experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud solutions

• Certifications related to DWH

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Owns end-to-end technical design across Snowflake, dbt, ADF, and Azure components

• Acts as the final technical decision authority within the team

• Ensures alignment with enterprise architecture and data governance standards

• Maintains architecture documentation and diagrams

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• Engineering Excellence

• Defines and enforces coding standards and best practices

• Reviews critical PRs and ensures maintainability and scalability

• Drives performance optimization and cost efficiency

• Continuously improves development efficiency by reducing technical complexity and removing bottlenecks

• CI/CD & Release Ownership

• Owns and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes

• Defines and enforces the release process, ensuring it is standardized and consistently followed

• Establishes release criteria based on Definition of Done, testing, and required approvals

• Ensures all changes meet release criteria before deployment to production

• Oversees and coordinates production releases, including validation of readiness and risk assessment

• Has authority to block releases that do not meet defined quality and governance standards

• Ensures pipelines enforce quality gates (tests, validations, approvals where required)

• Continuously improves release safety and reduces production incidents

• Quality & Definition of Done

• Ensures adherence to Definition of Done (including testing and documentation)

• Works with QA and team to ensure test coverage aligns with acceptance criteria

• Team Enablement & Mentoring

• Mentors engineers and supports technical growth

• Leads knowledge sharing and supports complex problem-solving

• Planning & Delivery Support

• Contributes to sprint planning with technical estimates, risks, and dependencies

• Owns identification and prioritization of technical debt in collaboration with the Product Owner

• Production Ownership

• Leads incident analysis and root cause resolution

• Ensures monitoring, alerting, and data quality validation mechanisms are in place across pipelines and in production

• Maintains runbooks for operational readiness

• Ways of Working

• Collaborates closely with Product Owner and Scrum Master to align technical delivery with business priorities; supports team continuity and helps facilitate meetings when the Scrum Master is absent

• Proactively works with upstream data source teams and other squads to resolve cross-team dependencies, data issues, and production bugs

• Drives technical alignment across teams/squads where shared data models, pipelines, or integrations are involved

• Acts as the primary technical point of contact for external teams and stakeholders