Tech Lead - Scala Data Engineering
London
Up to £110,000 + package
This role is for a Technical Lead to lead a data platform and team using Scala, Spark, AWS and Kafka. You will be in responsible for the design and architecture of an enterprise data platform.
The Company
This company were formed in 2006 and were built to disrupt two markets - the insurance industry and the comparison industry. Since being formed, they have always been cutting edge with data. They were on of the first adopters of a Cloudera Hadoop platform, being moving to a scala/spark architecture and have since moved to AWS and Kafka.
The Role
As the Technical Lead, you will:
- Lead architectural discussions and technical decision making.
- Play a key role in the development of the core data platform, mainly using scala.
- Take an active role in the team's engineering culture and quality assurance - eg using TDD, code reviews, paired programming etc.
Require Skills & Experience
As the Technical Lead, you will have:
- Strong experience in Data Engineering
- Experience in Scala, Spark, Python, AWS platform
- Have a growth mindset
- Thrives in a fast-paced digital environment
- Customer and quality focused (Agile, CI/CD and TDD/BDD approach)
- Active learner, keeps up to date with industry knowledge and keen to learn new languages and tools
- Experience leading other Data Engineers
KEYWORDS
Scala, AWS, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, TDD