Lead Data Engineer/Data Engineering Lead

Job Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage IT projects and programs within the insurance domain.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of data projects using AWS native data services.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.
• Work closely with Data Architecture, and Data platform team to define business cases technical feasibility
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Manage project risks and issues, and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Communicate project status, progress, and updates to stakeholders regularly.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, analysts, and business users.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and ensure best practices in project management are followeds

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or any related field.
• Must have at least 7 years of experience in IT project/program management.
• Must have 6+ years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering.
• Must have strong background in the insurance domain.
• Proven stakeholder expectation management skills.
• Strong technical knowledge in data engineering.
• Must have hands-on technical experience with AWS native data services (such as AWS S3, DMS, Glue, EMR, Athena, Lake Formation, Redshift, etc.).
• Excellent expression and communication skills
• Must be amenable to work on a day shift schedule
• Must be amenable to work in the office at least 2-3x a week in Taguig (remaining days - wfh)