Engineering Team Lead (Data Platform)

A company on a mission to help deliver the world's most effective behavioral care through data, measurement, and personalization is seeking a Data Engineering Team Lead to play a pivotal role in building and maintaining its robust data platform. You will lead a talented team of data engineers, data analysts, and BI analysts, ensuring a collaborative and high-performing environment within and outside the team.

In this role, you will be responsible for the BI architecture strategy and vision. You will manage structural changes to concepts and tables, provide accessible solutions, and develop and maintain tools that the entire company can use.

The ideal candidate must have excellent business understanding, attention to detail, technical and analytical abilities, and BI expertise. The candidate will be self-driven, independent, able to coordinate with different teams and groups and handle ambiguity well within the organization.

How will you contribute?

Provide technical leadership and direction for the data platform, including data pipelines, data lake, data governance, and data security.
Partner with data analysts and BI analysts to understand their needs and ensure the platform effectively supports their work.
Design, develop, and implement solutions to optimize data ingestion, storage, processing, and analysis.
Oversee data platform projects
Build self-serve accessibility tools and platforms for the entire company to use
Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within the data teams.
Mentor and develop the technical and analytical skills of the team members.
Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and technologies in data platforms and analytics.
Communicate effectively with stakeholders across technical and non-technical departments.

Require Skills and Experience:

5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field - must
2+ years of proven experience in leading and managing a data team - must
Fluency in Python, Airflow and DBT - must
Proficiency in data modeling, ETL, SQL, data visualization and BI tools - must
Strong technical skills in data platform technologies like Spark, Kafka, Athena, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and orchestration frameworks - must
Ability to learn new technologies and lead complex projects
Solid understanding of data lake concepts and data modeling principles.
Experience in global data and BI project management.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication and collaboration skills - Hebrew and English - written and verbal
Experience with data governance and data security best practices - advantage

What qualifications and skills will help you to be successful?

Accountability - we can trust you to take ownership of your tasks from A-Z and understand the gravity of the data you are working with.
Agility and adaptability - we can trust you to get things done, learn what it takes on your own and adapt to a very dynamic environment
Communication - you are able to successfully communicate complex issues and problems
An analytical mind with problem-solving capabilities
Great interpersonal skills
This is a unique opportunity to join a startup that is having a meaningful impact on the well-being and mental health of thousands.