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Technical Lead - Data Engineering

Frontwalker Sri Lankalinkedin.com
Nov 11, 2026, 10:20 AM1d ago
Full-timeColombo, Western ProvinceData engineeringLead (5+ yrs)

About the role

The Technical Lead - Data Engineering will be responsible for designing and developing large data processing solutions for a major global food marketing and distribution corporation. The role involves collaborating with agile cross-functional teams, providing guidance on database design and optimization, and ensuring adherence to DevOps principles. The position also includes developing scalability plans for data infrastructure, maintaining high code quality through best practices, and participating in all phases of the software lifecycle from development to post-production support. Candidates should have significant experience in enterprise application development, data integration, and team management, along with strong communication and leadership skills.

Must have

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, and 5/6+ years ofexperience developing production enterprise applications, data integration solutions and in managing teams.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills.
  • Hands on experience working with large volumes of data and distributed processing frameworks (preferably Apache Spark).
  • Hands-on experience in designand development of ETLs to process large volumes of data.
  • Hands-on experience in workingwith large relational databases (preferably MySql).
  • In-depth understanding of the database design/optimization methodologies (OLAP/OLTP database design techniques, query plan analysis).
  • In-depth understanding of the software engineering methodologies (UML/Design patterns).

Nice to have

  • Experience in working with NoSql databasesand bigdata (Hadoop,Elasticsearch, CouchDB, MongoDB) technologies will be an added advantage.
  • Working in a Scrum Agile delivery environment and DevOps practices, as well as prior experience working with Cloud IaaS or PaaS providers such as AWS will be an added advantage.

Technologies

  • Agile
  • AWS
  • CI/CD
  • CouchDB
  • Data Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Elasticsearch
  • ETL
  • Hadoop
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • NoSQL
  • Scrum
  • Spark
  • UML

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