Technical Lead, Data Ingestion (Tech Lead)

Mandate Overview:

• The Tech Lead leads the ingestion POD of the CDAC project, which integrates several legacy systems and the new group insurance system into an Azure cloud environment, exposed to users through Power BI. He builds the complex components, configures ingestion pipelines and takes part in data loading, while supporting and coordinating developers. Technical governance is explicit: validating infrastructure configurations (repo, ingestion and enrichment framework, Synapse and SQL databases, gateways, MFT flows, file servers), validating access against the security model, refactoring, and coordinating branches and promotions with the other PODS. The context is strongly schedule-driven, and the targeted seniority is 8 years and more.
  
  
  


• Target candidate: a senior data developer, 8+ years, who has led a development team on Azure ingestion pipelines (Data Factory, Data Lake, Synapse) in a large organization while remaining the main code contributor. He shows tooled quality practices (TDD, automated testing, CI/CD) and command of production releases in an environment with standardized processes.
  
  
  

Requirements

Required:

• Excellent ETL knowledge
  
  
  


• Experience in data projects
  
  
  


• Azure data storage environments (Data Storage, Data Lake, Blob Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Synapse Analytics, Flyway)
  
  
  


• Relational and dimensional models
  
  
  


• Testing approaches: TDD, user interface testing, automated testing, continuous integration
  
  
  


• Source control and deployment (GitHub, GitHub Actions, Concourse)
  
  
  


• Power BI (Desktop, Service, components including gateway)
  
  
  


• Architecture patterns: object-oriented, cloud (IaaS, CaaS, PaaS, SaaS, iPaaS), application resilience, event-driven
  
  
  


• Functional knowledge
  
  
  


• Soft skills: leadership, resourcefulness, autonomy, teamwork and task sharing, standardized processes, pleasant personality
  
  
  

Desired:

• Industry knowledge (checked on the form)
  
  
  


• Checked competencies: action-oriented, managing complexity, results-driven, analysis and synthesis
  
  
  

Asset:

• Domain Driven Design (DDD)
  
  
  


• Security principles and protocols: SSO, Auth0, SAML, OpenID, JWT, OAuth2, ABAC/RBAC
  
  
  

Profiles to Exclude:

• Profile mentioning Azure Data Factory or Synapse without an ingestion pipeline built and deployed in a described mandate.



• BI analyst or developer profile whose experience is limited to Power BI reports and dashboards, without ETL development.



• Team lead or development manager profile without hands-on development in recent mandates.



• Data or solution architect profile who designs without developing or executing production releases.



• Profile whose ETL experience is exclusively on on-premise tools, without a completed Azure project.



• Profile without demonstrated automated testing or continuous integration practice in a mandate.