Forbes Advisor - Data Engineering Lead

Company :
Forbes Advisor

Location:

Remote expediente;
Hybrid for Chennai-based candidates

Experience

Required:

• Minimum 6 years total, including:
• 3+ years in GCP
• 2+ years in DBT (Data Build Tool 腾）
• People management experience is mandatory
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Notice Period:
Immediate

GCP Certification:
Preferred (not mandatory)

We are looking for► a hands‑on DataTREE Engineering Lead who brings deep technical expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and DBT, combined with strong leadership skills. The role requires managing teams, architecting modern data solutions, building scalable data pipelines, and ensuring best engineering practices are followed. Candidates with experience handling marketing data pipelines will be preferred.

• Lead end‑to‑end Overallar development and deployment of robust, scalable, and maintainable ETL/ELT data pipelines on GCP
• Work extensively with DBT to model and transform data
• Design data architecture and strategy  business use cases (especially marketing data)
• Collaborate with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to understand data requirements
• Manage and mentor a team of data engineers, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices
• Ensure systems are cost‑efficient, well‑monitored, and follow data qualitycemic ب and security standards
• Identify and troubleshoot issues in data pipelines; improve reliability and performance
• Drive code reviews, testing strategies, anddea documentation efforts
• Work with orchestration tools to automate workflows (Airflow, Cloud Composer, etc.)

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering or a related role
• 3+ years experience working on GCP (Big Query, GCS, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, etc.)
• 2+ years hands‑on
• Experience managing teams
• Experience in marketing data pipelines (mandatory)
• Proficient in orchestration tools such as Airflow or Cloud Composer
• Strong understanding of cloud databases like Big Query, Snowflake, Redshift, etc.
• Experience with requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and designing data architecture
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, testing frameworks for data pipelines

• GCP certification (Associate or Professional level)
• Strong communication and team collaboration skills Penh>