Senior Manager Data

TechSurge Inc.; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 6,500,000 - 12,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TechSurge Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Data Engineer in Karachi to design and maintain scalable data architectures, pipelines, and data models. You will lead a team of data engineers, guide governance and security, and drive data solutions across Wholesale, Risk, and CX digitalization initiatives.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience with Azure, Spark, SQL, Python, and data governance, with a proven track record delivering end-to-end data platforms in complex environments.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of experience in Big Data, data lakes/meshes, and cloud platforms (Azure and AWS).
• Proven track record delivering production-grade data pipelines and data models.
• Experience with data governance, security, and compliance in financial domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data architectures, pipelines, models, and integration strategies.
• Lead a team of data engineers; mentor and manage delivery across projects.
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT processes and ensure data quality, lineage, and security.
• Monitor pipelines, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and cost.
• Evaluate and integrate new data tools and platforms.

Skills

Big Data

Data Architecture

SQL

Python

Spark

Azure

Java/C#

Data Governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Databricks

Kafka

Hive

Pyspark

Job description

Job Description:

• Data Architecture Design: As a Senior Data Engineer, one of the primary responsibilities is to design and maintain the data architecture. This involves creating scalable, efficient, and robust data pipelines, data models, and data integration strategies.
• Business Focus Deliverables:
• Managed to build scalable & robust data visualization platform supported as per organization strategical tools & technology.
• Develops/maintains scalable Business Solutions for Wholesales Operations, Risk, Compliance/Client Experience (CX) Digitalization
• Understand clients' problems and decide how to cater to their needs, business problems.
• Proficient in requirement gathering, finalizing scope, consensus building across diverse stakeholders, formulating BRD's, concluding UAT, demos and trainings, tracking Agile Scrum & rituals.
• Team Leadership and Management: Leading a team of data engineers is a crucial aspect of this role. KRAs include managing team members (both FTE's and EC's), assigning tasks, mentoring junior engineers, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Data Pipeline Development: Developing and optimizing data pipelines is essential to ensure smooth data flow from various sources to the data warehouse or data lake. This KRA involves implementing ETL/ELT processes, data ingestion, and transformation workflows.
• Data Quality and Governance: Ensuring the quality, integrity, lineage, and security of data is another vital aspect of a Lead Data Engineer's role. This involves implementing data governance policies, data monitoring mechanisms, and error handling procedures.
• Performance Optimization: Responsible for optimizing data processing/query performance. This may involve tuning database queries, optimizing data storage, leveraging distributed computing technologies.
• Technology Selection and Integration: Keeping up with the latest trends and advancements in data engineering technologies is crucial. Evaluating and integrating new tools and frameworks to enhance the data engineering processes can be a significant KRA.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitoring new and existing data pipelines to identify and resolve issues is an essential responsibility. This KRA involves setting up monitoring systems and establishing procedures for quick troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Scalability and Resilience: Ensuring that the data engineering infrastructure can scale with increasing data volume and handle failures gracefully is critical. This KRA involves designing for high availability and fault tolerance.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 12-15 Years of Experience in Big Data, Hadoop, Data Lake, Data Mesh Architectures, Azure Cloud, Microsoft SQL Server, Unix, and platform migrations, Apache Spark, Pyspark, Hive, Azure data bricks, ADF.
• Should have managed successful execution of minimum 1large engagement into production go live.
• Must have knowledge of Platform Management of Cloud, DWH, Azure and Data Lake.
• Good in Data Management Fundamentals and Data Architect, Modelling, Governance and Data security.
• Strong in writing & tuning the Data Ingestion jobs, Spark applications, python, Hive, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL.
• Proficient in SQL, Python, C#, Java, or another JVM-based language.
• Proficient in Spark, Hive, Sqoop, ADLS, ADB, ADF and Kafka.
• Public/Private cloud experience in AWS and/or Azure.
• Good knowledge of RDBMS/NoSQL database design and best practices.
• Experience in DWH to Data Lake offloading.
• Proficient in Data Modeling and Data Governance concepts.
• Good Domain Knowledge in Banking/Finance area.