Your new company
Our client is a well-established business currently undergoing an enterprise-level data transformation. To support their expanding data capabilities, they are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to join their team and drive the design, development, and enhancement of enterprise data platforms and modern data solutions.
Your new role
- Lead one of the data engineering squads, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and support to team members while remaining actively involved in solution delivery.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust data processing pipelines and end-to-end ETL/ELT workflows.
- Build and optimize scalable data platforms capable of processing and analysing large volumes of structured and unstructured data securely and efficiently.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise data platforms to support business intelligence, analytics, reporting, and future AI initiatives.
- Drive the design and implementation of data integration frameworks within complex enterprise application environments.
- Integrate and manage data flows across enterprise applications, databases, cloud platforms, APIs, and third-party systems.
- Support the implementation and optimisation of Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Lakehouse architectures.
- Contribute to data platform architecture decisions, technical standards, and best practices across the engineering team.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, architects, platform teams, and developers to deliver scalable and reliable data solutions.
- Support platform reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence through modern engineering practices.
What you'll need to succeed
- Bachelor's Degree or above in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Development, Data Architecture, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience in team leadership such as leading small technical teams, mentoring junior engineers on large-scale data initiatives.
- Proven experience designing and developing data infrastructure using technologies such as PySpark, Kafka, Hadoop, or similar big data platforms.
- Strong experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, data migration solutions, and complex integration layers between enterprise applications and centralized cloud/on-premises environments.
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks (preferred), Snowflake, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting data ingestion, transformation, and synchronization across enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, BI platforms, and other business-critical applications.
- Experience working with at least one major cloud platform, including Microsoft Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.
- Experience building and supporting real-time or streaming data platforms using technologies such as Kafka, Event Hub, or equivalent solutions.
- Exposure to platform engineering and DevOps practices, including tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies.
- Strong knowledge of data modelling, database design, and enterprise data architecture principles.
- Exposure to, or curiosity to explore, modern data, AI, and Generative AI technologies, with a willingness to continuously learn and adopt new tools and best practices.
- Proficient in spoken and written English, and currently based in Hong Kong with a valid work permit.
What you need to do now
If you’re interested in this exciting opportunity, please don’t delay and click APPLY NOW. For more information, please contact Kelvin Chu at
[email protected].