Data Engineering Head Job in Kinara Capital

Job Responsibilities:

• Play a critical role as a member of the leadership team in shaping and supporting our overall company vision, day-to-day operations, and culture

• Set the technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale; including defining long-term goals and strategies

• Define best practices around coding methodologies, software development, and quality assurance

• Define innovative technical requirements and systems while balancing time, feasibility, cost and customer experience

• Build and support production products

• Ensure our internal processes and services comply with privacy and security regulations

• Establish a high performing, inclusive engineering culture focused on innovation, execution, growth and development

• Set a high bar for our overall engineering practices in support of our mission and goals

• Develop goals, roadmaps and delivery dates to help us scale quickly and sustainably

• Collaborate closely with Product, Business, Marketing and Data Science

• Experience with financial and transactional systems

• Experience engineering for large volumes of data at scale

• Experience with financial audit and compliance is a plus

• Experience building a successful consumer facing web and mobile apps at scale

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor s degree in Data Science/ Stats or other quantitative fields (CS, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics ) from a top university

• Work Experience: 10+ years of experience building and leading growing engineering functions, ideally for a fintech offering

Other Requirements:

• A thoughtful and proven approach to hiring, mentoring and scaling a top-notch engineering team

• Execute against strategy in cooperation with other teams, including Product Management, Data Science, Business, and Marketing Teams

Skills & Competencies

Technical Skills

• A strong track record of creating engaging, intuitive and highly secure engineering products from conception to production

• Experience in AWS infrastructure and developer operations environments

• Ability to write clean code and have top-notch general programming skills along with experience coding JavaScript (Node.js) applications/services using frameworks such as Express.

• Experience with Python and Flask is a plus as is Java.

• Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases (eg. MongoDB)

• Performance production databases (eg. DynamoDB) is ideal and experience with big data frameworks (eg. Spark) is a bonus.

• Data savviness

Soft Skills

• Entrepreneurial mentality with the passion for our mission and in building a highly successful company

• Proven ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

• Deep Curiosity and Humility

Competencies

• High social responsibility and mission-driven culture

• Team player

• High Integrity and focus on Building relationships

• Inspiring Leader who instills confidence

• People-oriented and Goal-oriented

Behavioral Traits

• Constantly curious

• Initiator

• High Social Responsibility

• Assertiveness