Familiarity with event-driven architectures (CDC and streaming). Strong technical leadership and communication skills. 8+ years of professional software engineering experience. 5+ years focused on data systems (databases, pipelines, infrastructure). Experience with very large-scale datasets. Strong SQL skills and experience designing schemas and optimizing queries. Proficiency in Python and PySpark. Understanding of data quality, governance, and compliance principles. Experience scaling production datastores and managing data migrations. Familiarity with AWS data infrastructure (RDS, S3, Kinesis, Redshift), cloud-native scaling, and infrastructure as code.