Data Engineering Head Job in Kinara Capital
Data Engineering Head
- Bengaluru, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka
- Not Disclosed
- Full-time
- Permanent
Job Responsibilities:
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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
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Set the technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale; including defining long-term goals and strategies
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Define best practices around coding methodologies, software development, and quality assurance
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Define innovative technical requirements and systems while balancing time, feasibility, cost and customer experience
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Build and support production products
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Ensure our internal processes and services comply with privacy and security regulations
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Establish a high performing, inclusive engineering culture focused on innovation, execution, growth and development
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Set a high bar for our overall engineering practices in support of our mission and goals
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Develop goals, roadmaps and delivery dates to help us scale quickly and sustainably
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Collaborate closely with Product, Business, Marketing and Data Science
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Experience with financial and transactional systems
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Experience engineering for large volumes of data at scale
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Experience with financial audit and compliance is a plus
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Experience building a successful consumer facing web and mobile apps at scale
Qualifications:
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Education: Bachelor s degree in Data Science/ Stats or other quantitative fields (CS, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics ) from a top university
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Work Experience: 10+ years of experience building and leading growing engineering functions, ideally for a fintech offering
Other Requirements:
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A thoughtful and proven approach to hiring, mentoring and scaling a top-notch engineering team
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Execute against strategy in cooperation with other teams, including Product Management, Data Science, Business, and Marketing Teams
Skills & Competencies
Technical Skills
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A strong track record of creating engaging, intuitive and highly secure engineering products from conception to production
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Experience in AWS infrastructure and developer operations environments
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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.
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Experience with Python and Flask is a plus as is Java.
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Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases (eg. MongoDB)
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Performance production databases (eg. DynamoDB) is ideal and experience with big data frameworks (eg. Spark) is a bonus.
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Data savviness
Soft Skills
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Entrepreneurial mentality with the passion for our mission and in building a highly successful company
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Proven ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
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Analytical and problem-solving mindset
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Deep Curiosity and Humility
Competencies
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High social responsibility and mission-driven culture
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Team player
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High Integrity and focus on Building relationships
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Inspiring Leader who instills confidence
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People-oriented and Goal-oriented
Behavioral Traits
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Constantly curious
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Initiator
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High Social Responsibility
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Assertiveness
Fresher
2 - 4 Hires