Job Description

Team Overview
We are looking for a Data Engineering Operations Lead to join our growing Data Engineering and Analytics Practice who will drive building next generation suite of products and platforms by designing, coding, building, and deploying highly scalable and robust data solutions. The team reports to the Head of Data Engineering & Analytics and is part of the wider Global Technology function.

Role Overview and Core Responsibilities
The role exists to own and manage the internal function responsible for development, support and operation of our ingestion pipelines as well as the assets created and owned by the team across our cloud (GCP) and on-premises environments. As Data Engineering Operations lead, you will be responsible to ensure the quality and robustness of the developed pipelines, operational resilience, SLA compliance for all of our main data assets created by our team. As a lead engineer most of your time will be spent on hands-on engineering work with expected ~25% spent on operational activities.

Responsibilities include:




- Own and manage daily Data Engineering operations, including data ingestion workflows, pipeline monitoring, and incident resolution.
- Oversee end-to-end pipeline health - proactively monitor, triage, and resolve failures, bottlenecks, and data quality issues across all ingestion layers.
- Organize and prioritize the engineering operations function’s daily workload - assign tasks, track progress, and remove blockers to ensure smooth operational delivery.
- Maintain and improve ingestion pipelines from various data sources into data lakes, warehouses, and real-time streaming systems.
- Act as the first point of escalation for pipeline failures, SLA breaches, and data anomalies - driving root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
- Define and enforce operational standards - runbooks, alerting thresholds, on-call procedures, and incident management practices.
- Coordinate with upstream data providers and downstrea

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