We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Manager of Data Engineering to join our young and highly motivated team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a highly qualified team and solving complex problems. You will partner with multiple stakeholders across the organization to efficiently deliver data infrastructure, data modeling, and also play the role of an architect in the team. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, leadership abilities, and a passion for data-driven decision making. You create positive collaborative outcomes and ensure solutions are reliable, scalable, and secure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Highly developed verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work up and down within the organization to influence others and achieve results.
- Partner with key stakeholders across all levels to drive solutions to meet business needs.
- Line manage a team of 7 direct report Data and Analytics Engineers.
- Accountable for the technical delivery of features to achieve business outcomes.
- Mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of innovation.
- Participate in solution approaches/designs and operating principles.
- Initial point of escalation for team to remove blockers.
- Manage the development of efficient ETL processes to gather, clean, and transform data from various sources.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and tools, evaluating their potential to enhance our data capabilities.
- Foster an Engineering Mindset.
- Demonstrate a commitment and passion for associate development, driving the talent agenda.
- Set clear goals and expectations around performance, providing timely feedback and stretching targets.
- Set the highest standards for talent development, holding self and others accountable for meeting crucial talent needs for the future across the business.
- Work with peers to identify opportunities to develop cross-functionally.
- Set a standard for driving continuous improvement and focus on being a high-performance organization.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that all solutions are tested and meet the required quality standards.
What You Will Need (Minimum Qualifications):
- Typically has 8-15 years prior experience in Data Engineering.
- 3-5 years of team management experience.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and development teams.
- Experience with stakeholder management.
Technology Experience with:
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
- Proficient with AWS Cloud technologies (i.e., S3, Lambda, Dynamo, EC2), Python, Spark.
- Strong proficiency in data warehousing and ETL processes.
- 6+ years’ experience with batch and real-time streaming mandatory.
- 8+ years of experience in a wide variety of distributed systems and frameworks – such as Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Databricks, Streaming, and more.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills.
- Experience in performance tuning, optimization, and scaling solutions from a storage/processing standpoint.
- 6+ years of development experience using Java, Python, Scala.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent engineering skillset, training, or technical work experience.
- Experience with source code control and continuous integration tools.
- Problem-solving and critical thinking skills to solve complex technical problems.
- Solid understanding of data validation, data modeling, data performance, and cost optimization.
- Expertise in SQL.
- Experience in building AI/ML driven platforms is a huge plus.
About Junglee Games:
Junglee Games is a leader in the skill-gaming space, with more than 100 million users. Founded in San Francisco in 2012, and part of the $30 Bn Flutter Entertainment Group, Junglee Games is the fastest-growing skill-gaming company in the world. Some of our notable games are Junglee Rummy, Howzat, Eatme.io, Poker, and Carrom Stars.
Our mission is to build entertainment for millions of people around the world and connect people through high-quality games. The games are available on multiple platforms, including web browsers, Android, and iOS devices, emphasizing creating engaging and immersive gaming experiences while incorporating social features to foster interaction and competition among players.
Since founding, we've drawn 700 of the world’s most talented people into our ranks. Our team has worked on international AAA titles like Transformers, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Real Steel, Rio, Mech Conquest, and Dueling Blades. Our designers have worked on some of Hollywood’s biggest hits including the movie Avatar.
Junglee is not just a gaming business - it is a blend of data science, innovation, cutting-edge technology, and, most importantly, a values-driven culture that creates the next set of conscious leaders. Junglee Games is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Junglee has gained recognition in the gaming industry and has received various accolades for its contributions to the online gaming space and continues to innovate and develop new games, expanding its presence in the global gaming market.