Data Engineering Tech Lead (Kafka, AWS)
Aviva Investors3 months ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of data and backend engineers.
- Own technical delivery and act as the team’s technical escalation point.
- Design and implement Kafka/MSK-based streaming pipelines and AWS Glue ETL jobs.
- Build containerized microservices using ECS, Spring Boot, and Python.
- Implement end-to-end Operational Data Store data flows using API-based and event-driven integration patterns.
- Establish scalable, resilient, high-performing engineering standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, logging, metrics, and observability.
- Apply canonical data models, schemas, configuration-driven and metadata-driven approaches, and reusable ingestion, transformation, and publishing patterns.
- Contribute to the organization’s golden path for domain onboarding.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Proven expertise with Kafka and event-driven architectures, preferably MSK.
- Experience with the AWS data stack, including Glue, S3, ECS, and Postgres/Aurora.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
- Experience building scalable data ingestion, processing, and data movement solutions.
- Ability to write and review code in Java, Python, or another modern programming language.
- Understanding of Operational Data Stores, data modeling and transformation patterns, and API, event streaming, and CDC integration patterns.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in large-scale transformation programs.
Benefits
- Contract of employment and performance bonus.
- Private medical care, cafeteria benefits such as a MultiSport card, and employer-funded group insurance.
- Employee Shares Plan, paid time off to volunteer, and an additional day off for birthdays.
- Additional parental leave and shortened working time after parental leave.
- Additional leave acquired over time, including up to five extra days per year, and two weeks of paid Wellbeing Leave after 10 years of service.
- Psychological support consultations and access to e-learning platforms.
- Internal employee referral program.
- Hybrid working model from Poland with a few days per month in the Warsaw office.
- Additional entitlements for people with disabilities and an inclusive, diversity-focused work environment.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Aviva Investors
Aviva Investors is the global asset management business of Aviva plc, headquartered in London and founded in 2008. It manages fixed income, equity, real assets, multi-asset, and alternative strategies, including ESG-oriented mandates, for institutional, wholesale, and retirement clients worldwide. Its business model centers on management and performance fees from pooled funds and segregated mandates across global markets.