Lead Data Engineer - Managed Services

🚀 About the Role

As a Lead Data Engineer, you'll be instrumental in helping Hakkoda's clients optimize their data usage. You'll be part of a team focused on providing Snowflake administration services, including break-fix management, monitoring, enhancement backlogs, and troubleshooting. You'll also play a key role in creating innovative data and analytic solutions. A key aspect of this role involves measuring and optimizing system performance for continuous improvement. Mentorship and coaching of other team members is also expected.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
• Design and develop data warehouses (experience with Teradata, Oracle Exadata, Netezza, SQL Server, or Spark is a plus).
• Build ETL/ELT ingestion pipelines using tools like DataStage, Informatica, or Matillion.
• Demonstrate advanced SQL knowledge, including query tuning and plan analysis.
• Work with data visualization tools.
• Contribute to business intelligence/data analytics initiatives.
• Proactively identify problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
• Monitor production environments, ensuring system health.
• Manage people and agile projects.
• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs.
• Work with internal and client teams to prevent incidents and ensure smooth system operation.

💪 Requirements

• Essential: Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, or a related field; 4+ years in related technical roles, with 1+ year in management or team leadership; experience hiring, developing, and managing a technical team; advanced knowledge of SQL and tuning; experience with data visualization tools; business intelligence/data analytics experience; Snowflake or AWS cloud experience; advanced English.
• Preferred: Experience with Azure and GCP; Python expertise and experience applying modern data science languages; experience with DataStage, Informatica, and Matillion.

🎁 Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• Competitive meal allowance
• Annual bonus opportunities
• 22 days of paid time off + 2 additional days (birthday and Christmas Eve)
• Initial home office budget
• Work-from-home allowance
• Technical training and certification programs
• Access to a co-working space in Lisbon (Saldanha)