Data Platform Tech Lead - Cloud & ML Pipelines

Zinkworks; Athlone; On-site; EUR 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zinkworks is forming a dedicated delivery squad for a high-growth international client in Ireland. You will lead data engineering efforts, owning the data foundations, ingestion, modeling and quality layers to enable proactive issue detection and remediation.

The role centers on building scalable, compliant pipelines for real-time and batch data while guiding a multidisciplinary team. You'll partner with a Solution Architect and ML/backend/frontend specialists, leveraging Google Cloud tools and

Qualifications

• Significant commercial data engineering experience, including time technically leading a team or workstream.
• Strong Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience building batch and near-real-time pipelines on a cloud platform, ideally Google Cloud (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer/Airflow).
• Strong data modelling skills, including joining and reconciling data from multiple sources.
• Experience implementing data quality, freshness and completeness monitoring.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) and CI/CD for data pipelines.
• Clear communication with client stakeholders, and experience mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad technically: set engineering standards, guide design decisions, review code and unblock the team, working with the Solution Architect on design authority and integration contracts.
• Build ingestion for multiple feeds, including high-frequency telemetry with historical backfill, customer support data, business data and third-party performance data.
• Design a canonical data model with cross-source validation.
• Build data quality, freshness and completeness monitoring, and serve curated marts and feature pipelines for the ML team.
• Scale ingestion to high-volume, granular data with geographic enrichment and aggregation hierarchies.
• Automate business data feeds from source systems and build data marts that support strategic commercial decisions.
• Partner with platform engineering on the Google Cloud landing zone, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and cost guardrails.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Team leadership

Tools

Terraform

BigQuery

Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Airflow

Job description

Zinkworks is forming a dedicated delivery squad for a high-growth international client in Ireland. You will lead data engineering efforts, owning the data foundations, ingestion, modeling and quality layers to enable proactive issue detection and remediation.

The role centers on building scalable, compliant pipelines for real-time and batch data while guiding a multidisciplinary team. You'll partner with a Solution Architect and ML/backend/frontend specialists, leveraging Google Cloud tools and