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Data Technical Lead

Dublin, Leinster, IEFull-time2026-10-07 → 2026-11-09

Core

Hands-on technical leadership for a squad of data engineers building data pipelines and models on Databricks to deliver business outcomes.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC data technical lead

Builds

Production data pipelines, curated datasets, and data models on Databricks

Domain

Data engineering on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SQL, Python, Spark, Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake), cloud data platforms, CI/CD, Git, infrastructure-as-code, data modeling, data quality, team leadership

Preferred skills

dbt, data governance patterns, document/unstructured data ingestion, LLM-based tooling, financial services/insurance domain experience

Technologies

Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark, AWS, Azure, Git, CI/CD

Responsibilities

Lead a squad of 4-8 data engineers (employees and contractors), design medallion architectures and data models, write code and debug production issues, engage with business stakeholders to translate requirements, drive engineering standards and code reviews

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC