Technical Lead - Data Engineering

Frontwalker Sri Lankalinkedin.com

Oct 8, 2026, 11:48 AM2w ago

Full-timeColombo, Western ProvinceData engineeringLead (5+ yrs)

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About the role

The Technical Lead - Data Engineering will be responsible for designing and developing large-scale data processing solutions for a major global corporation in the food marketing and distribution sector. The role involves collaborating with agile, cross-functional teams, guiding database design and optimization, and ensuring adherence to DevOps principles. The position also requires involvement throughout the software lifecycle, from development and QA to deployment and post-production support. Candidates should have significant experience in enterprise application development, data integration, and team management, as well as 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