Lead Data Engineer with Scala

Why join GFT?

You will work with and learn from top IT experts. You will join a crew of experienced engineers: 60% of our employees are senior level.

Interested in the cloud? You will enjoy our full support in developing your skills: training programs, certifications and our internal community of experts. We have strong partnerships with top cloud providers: Google, Amazon and Microsoft - we are number one in Poland in numbers of GCP certificates. Apart from GCP, you can also develop in AWS or Azure.

We are focused on development and knowledge sharing. Internal expert communities provide a comfortable environment where you can develop your skillset in areas such as blockchain, Big Data, cloud computing or artificial intelligence.

You will work in a stable company (32 years on the market) in demanding and challenging projects for the biggest financial institutions in the world.

What will you do?

As a Lead Data Engineer your responsibilities will include the maintenance, design and implementation of modern data processing. On a daily basis you will work in Scrum, lead and motivate a team of engineers as a line manager, shape the team by interviewing and onboarding new joiners, take responsibility for project deliverables, monitor and report progress of the project (timesheet, risk management, project status) and cooperate with client on a daily basis. 

Your skills:

• Strong programming experience with Java or Scala (minumum 5 years of experience)
• Experience in Data Lake / Data Mart design
• Experience implementing Spark data pipelines as well as resource management and query optimization
• Excellent data modelling and schema design skills
• Experience with integration of data from multiple data sources
• Advanced knowledge Storage/Database-optimization and management
• Advanced SQL
• Understanding database storage types and usage scenarios e.g. SQL / NoSQL, Row / Column oriented, In-memory, Graph, Data Lake, etc.
• Strong programming experience with Java or Scala
• Knowledge of build tools: Maven / Gradle
• Experience with organizing code reviews
• Experience as tech lead / lead dev in Data projects

Nice to have:

• Data Governance experience
• Knowledge of at least one of the main clouds: GCP, Azure or AWS
• Streaming technologies e.g. Kafka

We offer you:

• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Competitive salary and extra benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
• Permanent contract
• On-line training and certifications fit for career path
• Free on-line foreign languages lessons
• Regular social events
• Access to e-learning platform
• Ergonomic and functional working space with 2 monitors (you can also borrow monitors for your home office)