Data Engineer Team Lead - ODS

Location: Madrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Open Digital Services is the software development company of Santander Group powering the next generation of banks by creating innovative banking products and implementing them in collaboration with Santander Group Affiliates. 

Santander Group is one of the world's largest financial institutions and the Eurozone's leader, we're committed to being the best Digital Bank with Branches in the industry.     

Our mission at ODS is to design and support an advanced digital and omnichannel platform, ensuring the best customer experience using cutting-edge technology. Openbank, our flagship partner, is where we develop our most advanced concepts first. Be part of our Best-in-Class  team and help us create unique value for our customers!   

Join us to tackle exciting tech challenges in an agile environment, benefiting from learning, growth, and local and international career opportunities in a modern, diverse setting.

Mission and responsibilities:

We're looking for a leader with strong technical expertise and management skills to lead technical projects in the Big Data domain. You will play a key role in implementing the ODS data lake across various entities within Santander group internationally. This role offers a great chance to innovate, work with the latest technologies, and collaborate with a talented team to make a global impact.
The ideal candidate must be proficient in Spark, Scala, AWS, and Big Data ecosystems. Additionally, they should have strong management abilities to lead projects, resolve issues and blockers, and execute end-to-end data projects.

The main tasks of this position will be the following:

• Project Planning: Define the scope, objectives, and timelines of projects focused on designing and implementing production big data environments using modern technologies. Develop a detailed plan that includes tasks, resources, and schedules for building, validating, and optimizing large-scale big data solutions in heterogeneous data environments. This includes developing and managing ETLs in batch (Spark and Scala) and streaming (Apache Flink), working with the AWS Ecosystem (EMR, EC2, IAM, GLUE, ATHENA, S3, CloudFormation, LakeFormation, Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS, ECS & ECR.

• Team and Scrum Leadership: Form and lead teams, assign tasks according to members' skills, promote collaboration and conflict resolution, organize sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, unblock tasks, and work on tickets alongside the team.

• Analysis and Resolution of Functional Issues in Production: Identify, analyze, and resolve functional issues that arise in the production environment.

• Technical Advisor: Translate complex technical concepts into actionable plans within the product development lifecycle, providing recommendations and technical guidance to the development team.

• Communication: Maintain open communication with all stakeholders, providing updates and responding to inquiries. Understanding customers’ needs and expectations, translating them into technical requirements.

• Risk and Quality Management: Identify and mitigate potential risks to minimize their impact on the project, and implement processes to ensure deliverables meet agreed-upon standards.

To be successful in the role you must have

• At least 2 years managing Big Data Projects with responsabilities like those described above.

• At least 4 years of experience working with big data – Scala, Spark, and AWS are a must.

• Professional working proficiency in English and Spanish (at least B2-C1)

·      Strong management skills and the ability to solve complex problems.
·      Experience in implementing end-to-end data solutions.
·      Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Nice to have

• Experience working in agile continuous integration/DevOps paradigm and tool set (Git, Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus, Jira, and Splunk).

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or other STEM, and related fields, or equivalent work experience.

• Experience with data warehousing, apache iceberg, and visualisation tools.

• Experience with NRT applications: Apache Flink, spark streaming.

What do we offer?

- Joining a dynamic and agile company undergoing international expansion.

- Working in start-up mode with the support of the Santander Group.

- Competitive remuneration and attractive benefits package.

- Possibility of growth within the company and the Group.

- Collaborating on international projects in different countries.

- Excellent work environment, social clubs and frequent events.

Would you like to grow with us? Join our team!

ODS is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered as equal without paying attention to gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, age, political orientation, union membership nor disability status.

We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify, and build.

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