Technical Lead (DWH team)

About the Position

We are seeking a Technical Lead (DWH team) for our team in Bucharest, Romania. The role involves overseeing the technical direction, quality, and delivery enablement of the data platform within the team. The ideal candidate will ensure scalable architecture, reliable releases, and strong engineering practices while enabling the team to deliver efficiently within defined engineering and release standards.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Owns end-to-end technical design across Snowflake, dbt, ADF, and Azure components
• Acts as the final technical decision authority within the team
• Ensures alignment with enterprise architecture and data governance standards
• Maintains architecture documentation and diagrams

Engineering Excellence

• Defines and enforces coding standards and best practices
• Reviews critical PRs and ensures maintainability and scalability
• Drives performance optimization and cost efficiency
• Continuously improves development efficiency by reducing technical complexity and removing bottlenecks

CI/CD & Release Ownership

• Owns and improves CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Defines and enforces the release process, ensuring it is standardized and consistently followed
• Establishes release criteria based on Definition of Done, testing, and required approvals
• Ensures all changes meet release criteria before deployment to production
• Oversees and coordinates production releases, including validation of readiness and risk assessment
• Has authority to block releases that do not meet defined quality and governance standards
• Ensures pipelines enforce quality gates (tests, validations, approvals where required)
• Continuously improves release safety and reduces production incidents

Quality & Definition of Done

• Ensures adherence to Definition of Done (including testing and documentation)
• Works with QA and team to ensure test coverage aligns with acceptance criteria

Team Enablement & Mentoring

• Mentors engineers and supports technical growth
• Leads knowledge sharing and supports complex problem-solving

Planning & Delivery Support

• Contributes to sprint planning with technical estimates, risks, and dependencies
• Owns identification and prioritization of technical debt in collaboration with the Product Owner

Production Ownership

• Leads incident analysis and root cause resolution
• Ensures monitoring, alerting, and data quality validation mechanisms are in place across pipelines and in production
• Maintains runbooks for operational readiness

Ways of Working

• Collaborates closely with Product Owner and Scrum Master to align technical delivery with business priorities; supports team continuity and helps facilitate meetings when the Scrum Master is absent
• Proactively works with upstream data source teams and other squads to resolve cross-team dependencies, data issues, and production bugs
• Drives technical alignment across teams/squads where shared data models, pipelines, or integrations are involved
• Acts as the primary technical point of contact for external teams and stakeholders

Requirements

Must have

• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering and development of DWH solutions
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, Azure Data Factory
• Experience with Azure Cloud Solutions, Azure DevOps
• Practical experience and understanding of CI/CD processes
• Experience of technical leadership in Agile SDLC

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud solutions
• Certifications related to DWH

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Competitive salary package
• Relocation support for the right candidate
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

At Luxoft, we are committed to delivering high-quality software solutions and services to our clients. Our team is passionate about technology and innovation, and we are always looking for talented individuals to join us on our journey.

Apply

If you are a passionate and experienced Technical Lead looking for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team in Bucharest, Romania.