Lead Data Engineer
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FYSTFintech
PortugalFull-TimeLead
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Job Details
- Languages
- English (B2 level) and fluent Russian
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonKafkaSnowflakeData engineeringGo
Requirements
- 5+ years in data engineering with end-to-end ownership of production pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL CDC, and Kafka.
- Solid AWS experience (S3, RDS, Aurora, cloud data infrastructure).
- Data quality engineering mindset: monitoring, reconciliation, and lineage.
- Technical leadership experience: project ownership, cross-team alignment, and delivery.
- Comfortable defining data contracts and driving requirements with backend teams.
- Familiarity with gRPC, RabbitMQ, and reading Go or Python service code.
- English language skills at the B2 level.
- Fluent Russian language.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or dbt is a plus.
- Payments domain knowledge (settlement, transaction lifecycle) is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design the target-state data architecture: Postgres CDC → Kafka → Snowflake → client-facing data products.
- Own tooling decisions across ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and quality layers.
- Implement CDC-based ingestion from PostgreSQL services using Debezium or equivalent.
- Build streaming and near-real-time pipelines with defined SLAs.
- Build a data quality control layer: checksums, reconciliation, schema validation, anomaly detection, and alerting.
- Define and enforce data contracts with service-owning teams.
- Build the external data delivery layer: financial settlement, transaction status, processor reconciliation, and client analytics.
- Design tenant separation and implement replay/reload mechanisms for failure recovery.
- Start hands-on, then gradually hire and grow a small data engineering team.
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