Data Team Lead

Role Overview :

The Data Team Lead will be responsible for driving the overall strategy, governance, and operational excellence of the enterprise data platform. This role involves leading vendor-based data engineering and architecture teams, ensuring efficient resource planning, and overseeing critical platform initiatives.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead and manage vendor Data Engineering and Architecture teams, including task allocation and resource planning.
• Serve as the primary owner of the Data Platform strategy and its roadmap.
• Oversee Data Platform reporting activities, including system go-lives, KPI tracking, usage insights, and FinOps monitoring.
• Act as the subject matter expert for the Data Platform ecosystem (Snowflake, AWS, Glue, etc.).
• Define and evolve long-term platform strategy in alignment with business and technology goals.
• Collaborate closely with Delivery and Operations Leads to address and prioritize business requirements.
• Own the DRM process and establish future Data Catalogue and data-modelling standards, ensuring robust data architecture practices.

Skills and Qualifications :

The ideal candidate should have worked on end-to-end data warehousing, data lake solutions in cloud platforms (AWS). The candidate should have the following skills sets :

Key Technology – AWS Data Services (e.g. Glue), Snowflake, AWS Cloud Services