Technical Lead

We are looking for a passionate and highly skilled Technical Lead to spearhead our data engineering team. In this role, you will play a critical part in building, and scaling our data infrastructure and pipelines, leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Snowflake and DBT. You will also be responsible for guiding and mentoring a team of talented data engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

Key Responsibilities: 

Data Architecture & Modeling:

• Design and implement robust data models optimized for Snowflake, incorporating best practices such as Data Vault 2.0, Snowflake and Star Schema methodologies.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries, ensuring consistency and clarity across the data landscape.

Data Pipeline Development & Management:

• Build, and maintain highly scalable and efficient data pipelines using Snowflake and DBT.
• Implement robust data quality checks and monitoring processes to ensure data integrity.
• Excellent command of writing complex transformations using Snowflake Script(SQL), and stored procedures in Javascript and Python. 

Technology Leadership:

• Drive the adoption and implementation of DBT within the data engineering team, establishing best practices and workflows.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends and technologies in data engineering, evaluating and recommending new tools and approaches.

Team Leadership & Mentorship:

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of data engineers, fostering their growth and development.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of total experience
• Extensive experience in data warehousing and data modelling, with a strong understanding of Data Vault 2.0 (ideally 3+ years of implementation experience), Snowflake and Star Schema methodologies
• Proven expertise in Snowflake (ideally 4+ years), including writing complex queries, data loading, transformation, and optimization techniques. Experience with performance tuning features like Time Travel, Streams, and Tasks, security best practices, and various data ingestion methods (Snowpipe, bulk loading) is highly desired.
• Experience with DBT (ideally 2+ years) or similar data transformation tools is required.
• Experience with DBT Cloud or DBT CLI, implementing tests and documentation, complex project structures and macros, and CI/CD pipelines for DBT is also preferred.
• Proficiency in SQL and other data manipulation languages such as Java Script and Python.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively lead and mentor a team (2+ years of experience leading engineering teams).
• Strong ability to define BI use cases into data engineering use cases, provide estimation, and drive the team to complete those user stories using agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us. 

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