• This is a hybrid role encompassing circa 75% of technical duties, with around 25% of time meant for team/people management. Foreseen size of the team is: this position, plus 4 engineers. Functional management of engineers is to be primarily driven from HQ, similarly as own technical tasks to be assigned by one of HQ Team heads.

• Close collaboration with the Head of IT BI and other IT BI Teamheads to execute the IT BI strategy, while supporting our fast-evolving company needs.

• Co-driving cross-departments initiatives, like architecture, best practices, knowledge sharing, etc.

• Design and Implementation of Spark Solutions end-to-end, from Data Ingestion, Data Lake Design and ELT Design.

• Building of prototypes for Solution Architects in technological areas of Apache Spark, Synapse Pipelines, Python.

• Deep understanding of all technical components of Azure Synapse/Spark Landscape.

• Extension of BI tabular cube solutions using star schema data modeling 

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

•University degree in Computer Sciences or a similar field of studies

•5 years of experience in Azure environment. Ideally accomplished MS courses DP-203, AZ-104 and AZ 304

•Strong understanding of the following Azure BI Services: Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse Pipelines; Apache Spark for Synapse, Synapse Studio)

•3 years of previous coding in Python; Pyspark; Spark SQL and T SQL

•Good skills in DAX (using DAX Studio, Tabular Editor)

•Prior team/people (not tasks!) management is an additional attribute

•Very high motivation in helping/guiding teammates to succeed in projects

•Fluent in business English