Job Description
We are looking for a Data Team Lead to join our fast growing data vertical. The prospect will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data practice, as well as optimizing and maturing the data team and incorporating best practices. The ideal candidate is an experienced data workstreams practitioner with similar lead roles in the past and who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Lead will support our software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on various initiatives and will ensure optimal delivery. Candidates must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the needs of multiple teams, systems and products.
People Management
- Manage a team of data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, data architects and should be comfortable working closely with UI/ UX team and Devops teams
- Hire, train and work towards team retention plans, providing them balanced learning and growth opportunities
Project Leadership
- Interpret and analyze industry data challenges in conventional and AI space and convert them into business opportunities
- Conceive, plan and prioritize data projects
Strategic
- Align data projects with organizational goals
- Lead data mining and collection procedures
- Ensure data quality and integrity
- Qualify sales leads into opportunities - supporting sales and pre-sales - including furnishing of proposals and commercial activities
Operations
Lead the following activities through their team:
- Test performance of data-driven products
- Visualize data and create reports and dashboards
- Experiment with new models and techniques
- Build analytic systems and predictive models
- Assemble large, complex data sets and build data pipelines that meet functional, non-functional business and data monetization requirements.
- Architect and implement large scale data warehousing and intelligence solutions
- Understand data transformation and translation requirements and leverage right tools to ensure risk free deliveries
- Enable teams providing production level support for Data Warehouse management
- Understand data pipelines and suggest modern ways of automating them over cloud and web services
- Translate requirements for BI and Reporting to database design
- Sign off on conceptual, physical and logical data models
- Utilize database and web application technologies to design, develop, and evaluate innovative business intelligence tools and automate reports
- Merge BI platforms with enterprise systems and applications and document models, solutions and implementations.