About this role
Section: About the Role
FirstBank is seeking an experienced Team Lead, Data Engineering to lead its data engineering team in designing, building, and managing secure, scalable data platforms and pipelines while ensuring operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
Section: Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop data engineers while enforcing engineering standards and best practices.
- Design scalable data platforms, pipelines, data models, and warehousing solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Implement CI/CD, infrastructure automation, containerisation, testing, and monitoring.
- Ensure data security, privacy, governance, compliance, and data loss prevention.
- Collaborate with architects, analytics teams, product owners, and business stakeholders.
- Oversee production support, incident response, disaster recovery, and root cause analysis.
- Manage project delivery, team resources, budgets, risks, and service-level agreements.
- Drive innovation, automation, and continuous improvement.
Section: Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field. A Master's degree or relevant certifications is an advantage.
- At least 8 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or software engineering, including 2 years in a technical or people leadership role.
- Experience building large-scale data platforms using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hadoop, Snowflake, Databricks, or Airflow.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages.
- Experience with databases, streaming architectures, APIs, microservices, and RESTful systems.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong understanding of data security, encryption, access controls, and regulatory compliance.
- Proven ability to drive innovation, automation, and operational excellence.