Team Lead - Data Engineering (English speaking)(M/F/D)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Köln

First insights

Are you a seasoned data engineer with a keen desire to inspire and motivate others? Do you thrive in an environment where you can multiply your experience building reliable data pipelines and valuable data products with a team of talented individuals? Do you enjoy enabling a high-performing and collaborative team culture by guiding your team towards designing robust data architectures and following good engineering practices?

If you're passionate about people management and data engineering, we need YOU on our team!

That’s what it’s about

As a Team Lead for Data Engineering, your main goal will be leading a team of data engineers towards engineering excellence.

  • Encourage strong collaboration with Product Owners and Tech Leads to ensure alignment of team's efforts with customer needs.

  • Facilitate smooth communication and coordination within your team, acting as a bridge between the expectations of upper management and the team members.

  • Strive for continuous improvement of engineering practices by fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, productivity, and engagement within your team.

  • Deliver feedback and guide your team in their professional development within MobiLab, giving direction on personal growth and skill enhancement.

  • Lead the onboarding process of new team members and provide support whenever necessary.

  • Empower team members to take ownership of their projects and tasks.

  • Act as a point of contact for any issues within the team.

As a data engineer yourself, you:

  • Help our customers to become cloud-native and data-driven companies.

  • Build reliable data pipelines and well-defined data products.

  • Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architectures.

  • Implement and maintain the ingestion of diverse data sources.

  • Analyse, manipulate, transform and process datasets of various size and complexity.

  • Enable training and operationalise machine learning models.

  • Support your team with active knowledge transfer.

  • Work in an agile environment and cross functional team.

This is you

You’re a seasoned data engineer who strives for engineering excellence in your team:

  • You have at least 5 years of professional experience as a Data Engineer and at least 2 years of experience in leading a team of engineers in a data-centric environment.

  • You have a bachelor in Computer Science, Data Science, Data Engineering or a relevant subject such as mathematics or physics.

  • You have experience in modelling of data landscapes and are familiar with concepts such as Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Vault, Data Mart.

  • You are comfortable working with analytics processing engines (i.e. Spark, Flink), have experience with different storage formats (i.e. JSON, Parquet, ORC), and have a deep understanding of storage systems and their capabilities (i.e. distributed filesystems, SQL and noSQL data stores).

  • You are proficient in structuring data pipelines for reliability, scalability and optimal performance.

  • You meet challenges with creative problem-solving and a hand-on approach, encouraging the same within your team.

  • You inspire your team, contributing fully to your role and motivating others to do the same.

  • You are fluent in English.

About us

At MobiLab you have the possibility to bring your creative mindset to production and pave the way for our customers to become a cloud-native company. You can enjoy a lot of freedom which allows you to codify the company culture and have a lasting ink at MobiLab. Our team is energetic, dynamic and international and we are glued together through the purpose of bringing our customers forward. Our open and respectful company culture will make you feel at home and allows you to grow and expand your knowledge. Our new office in the heart of the harbor district in Cologne offers a creative and inspiring working environment. To make you feel completely supported we offer some perks besides exciting projects. Besides the job ticket for your region and the participation in a yearly conference of your choice, we have further employee benefits like a company pension scheme as well as support of child care expenses. Enjoy regular company events such as beer & wine evenings, as well as company BBQs to connect with your peers.

If you’re passionate about growing and learning from the complexities of Cloud Integration by searching for Engineering Perfection then become part of our MobiLab Team.

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