Tech Lead – DataOps
Location
Spain
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Tech Lead – DataOps
Talan
• Lead the transversal platform and reliability efforts, driving industrialization, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and overall platform stability in a fully remote, multicultural environment. • Define and evolve technical standards, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of data workflows. • Lead industrialization and automation initiatives across development and deployment processes, supporting multiple squads on DataOps best practices. • Contribute to technical roadmap definitions, architecture decisions, and continuous ecosystem improvements. • Design, maintain, and evolve internal development and deployment tooling around dbt, Airflow, and Snowflake. • Develop and optimize internal CLI tools for automated dbt model generation, YAML testing, DAG creation, and deployment automation. • Contribute to the integration of AI/LLM capabilities into development and DataOps workflows to reduce manual operations. • Design, implement, and maintain secure and automated multi-environment Data CI/CD pipelines. • Ensure deployment quality during release cycles, collaborating with project squads and supporting release governance. • Supervise, optimize, and design Apache Airflow orchestration workflows and execution DAGs. • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities to maximize platform stability and operational efficiency. • Contribute to incident resolution and root cause analysis.
Job Requirements
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Data Vault 2.0 methodology applied to enterprise data platforms.
- Advanced proficiency in Python (focused on data platforms/automation) and SQL query optimization.
- Solid hands-on experience with dbt and Apache Airflow (including DAG design and workflow optimization).
- Good knowledge of DevOps practices using Git/GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Snowflake (or equivalent MPP platforms).
- Strong transversal technical leadership, an autonomous/proactive mindset, and excellent communication skills to collaborate with multicultural, distributed teams.
- Professional proficiency in both English and French is required.
- Nice to have skills: Experience with specific data modeling and automation tools like AutomateDV and DBSchema. Practical exposure to modern observability and data platform reliability practices. Experience or strong interest in integrating AI/LLM tooling (such as GitHub Copilot) into DataOps development and deployment workflows.
Benefits
- Employees can work remotely
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