Lead II - Data/platform engineer

Duties of Lead Data/platform engineer We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Ascend Cloud Foundation Platform team. We unlock the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. At life's big moments – from buying a home or car, to sending a child to university, to growing a business exponentially by connecting it with new customers – we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence so they can maximize every opportunity. Reporting into our Engineering Director, you will join an established agile team, with a passion and lead a technical team that supports innovation, learning and collaboration. Ensure that the team follows the highest technical standards. Support Agile methods to deliver high value outcomes.

Lead an outstanding Agile technical team Build data pipelines and data lake Deliver quality software Collaborate with the risk, security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS) and industry standards related to data privacy and security Understand where there are overlapping technical requirements in your team and other teams and help build out technology roadmaps Codebase ownership Technical Application ownership

Qualifications

Strong experience with DevOps & IaC tooling - Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins Strong experience of developing on Apache Spark/Hadoop Strong experience with AWS cloud services including (but not limited to) AWS Glue, S3, Step Strong experience building data pipelines and data lake Experience of the full development lifecycle/application Lifecycle Management Tools - BitBucket & Jira Significant experience of programming using Scala or Python. Configuration as code principles and API integration Ability to explain solutions to technical and non-technical audiences Write clean, scalable and re-usable code that implements SOLID principles, common design patterns where applicable and adheres to published coding standards Ability to analyse, investigate and compare large data sets when required Functions, Lambdas, EventBridge, SQS and Lake formation Experience with automated testing methodologies