Lead Data Engineer at PowerUp Leadership
Dublin, Dublin County, Ireland -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Dec, 26

Salary

55000.0

Posted On

24 Sep, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Description

About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to design, scale, and own the data architecture that processes millions of events daily across a high-traffic consumer rewards app and digital advertising network. In addition to driving deep technical excellence, you will build, hire, and lead a high-performing data engineering team from the ground up. If you are a deeply technical leader who thrives on building scalable systems zero-to-one and mentoring top engineering talent, this is your next high-impact role.

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Team Building . Hire, mentor, and lead a world-class team of data engineers.. Define the technical roadmap, set data engineering standards, and establish best practices across the organization.

Architecture & Scalability . Take platform challenges from zero-to-one.. Design and build scalable integrations across product, payment, advertising, and partner systems pulling data from APIs, databases, events, and webhooks.

End-to-End Pipeline Ownership . Own data flows bi-directionally—managing high-throughput ingestion into modern cloud warehouses as well as reverse ETL pipelines into operational tools.

Real-Time Data Processing . Build event-driven, high-frequency ingestion systems capable of processing real-time and asynchronous streams at volume.

Data Modeling & Governance . Model and transform complex datasets using dbt to create clean, reusable, and trusted data structures for downstream analytics and ML.

Infra & DevOps . Ship cloud infrastructure as code (IaC) and maintain CI/CD pipelines.. Own services end-to-end, from API design to automated deployment and monitoring.

Observability & Cost Management . Establish robust systems to monitor failure rates, data freshness, latency, and quality while optimizing cloud infrastructure costs.

What We’re Looking For:

Proven Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers and a strong desire or proven ability to recruit, grow, and lead a data engineering function.

Production Mastery : Extensive background operating high-reliability, large-scale data platforms in production environments.

Core Technical Skills: Mastery of Python, advanced SQL, data modeling, incremental processing, and schema evolution.

Cloud & Warehouse Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery) and AWS/GCP platforms.

Software Engineering Fundamentals: Solid foundation in Git, Docker, CI/CD, testing, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Transformation & Ingestion: Proficiency with dbt (or similar transformation frameworks) and experience managing event-driven architectures, APIs, and partner webhooks.

Mindset: Pragmatic approach with a bias toward simple, scalable solutions; excellent communication skills; and high operational ownership.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Data & Storage: Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, dbtCloud & Infra: AWS, GCP, Terraform, DockerLanguages: Python, SQL, TypeScriptTooling: Airbyte, Hex, GitHub Actions, Git
Responsibilities

About the Role:

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to design, scale, and own the data architecture that processes millions of events daily across a high-traffic consumer rewards app and digital advertising network. In addition to driving deep technical excellence, you will build, hire, and lead a high-performing data engineering team from the ground up. If you are a deeply technical leader who thrives on building scalable systems zero-to-one and mentoring top engineering talent, this is your next high-impact role.

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Team Building . Hire, mentor, and lead a world-class team of data engineers.. Define the technical roadmap, set data engineering standards, and establish best practices across the organization.

Architecture & Scalability . Take platform challenges from zero-to-one.. Design and build scalable integrations across product, payment, advertising, and partner systems pulling data from APIs, databases, events, and webhooks.

End-to-End Pipeline Ownership . Own data flows bi-directionally—managing high-throughput ingestion into modern cloud warehouses as well as reverse ETL pipelines into operational tools.

Real-Time Data Processing . Build event-driven, high-frequency ingestion systems capable of processing real-time and asynchronous streams at volume.

Data Modeling & Governance . Model and transform complex datasets using dbt to create clean, reusable, and trusted data structures for downstream analytics and ML.

Infra & DevOps . Ship cloud infrastructure as code (IaC) and maintain CI/CD pipelines.. Own services end-to-end, from API design to automated deployment and monitoring.

Observability & Cost Management . Establish robust systems to monitor failure rates, data freshness, latency, and quality while optimizing cloud infrastructure costs.

What We’re Looking For:

Proven Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers and a strong desire or proven ability to recruit, grow, and lead a data engineering function.

Production Mastery : Extensive background operating high-reliability, large-scale data platforms in production environments.

Core Technical Skills: Mastery of Python, advanced SQL, data modeling, incremental processing, and schema evolution.

Cloud & Warehouse Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery) and AWS/GCP platforms.

Software Engineering Fundamentals: Solid foundation in Git, Docker, CI/CD, testing, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Transformation & Ingestion: Proficiency with dbt (or similar transformation frameworks) and experience managing event-driven architectures, APIs, and partner webhooks.

Mindset: Pragmatic approach with a bias toward simple, scalable solutions; excellent communication skills; and high operational ownership.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Data & Storage: Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, dbtCloud & Infra: AWS, GCP, Terraform, DockerLanguages: Python, SQL, TypeScriptTooling: Airbyte, Hex, GitHub Actions, Git
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