Vice President, Azure Data Technical Lead

• Analyse the current practices, processes, and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging Microsoft Azure Data and Analytics Services.
• Provide technical and thought leadership as a senior member of the Analytics Practice in areas such as data access & ingestion, data processing, data integration, data modelling, database design & implementation, data visualization, and advanced analytics.
• Collaborate with project managers in estimating technical tasks and deliverables.
• Develop best practices including reusable code, libraries, patterns, and consumable frameworks for cloud-based data warehousing and ETL.
• Maintain best practice standards for the development or cloud-based data warehouse solutioning including naming standards.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Manage Information Science, Banking and Finance or equivalent.
• Min. 10 years of experience in Data Warehousing, Data Analytics, Realtime data integration or Business Intelligence
• Min. 3 years of experience as a Data Architect, Solution Architect or Technical Lead
• Min. 2 years of experience in managing technical team and leading on Azure data platform implementation.
• Knowledge in both traditional and modern data architecture and processing concepts such as SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and business analytics
• Proficiency in Databricks is a must.
• Experience in technology skillsets:
• Azure database platforms e.g. Azure SQL database, Azure Databricks, Azure data Lake Gen2
• Azure data integration tools e.g. Azure Synapse, Azure Data factory, Azure Event Hub.
• Data visualisation tools e.g. QlikView, Power BI
• Programming language: R & Python
• Possess architectural sense in connecting data sources, data visualization, structured and unstructured data.
• Candidates with traditional ETL knowledge may be considered.
• Knowledge in financial sector technologies, products and services will be an advantage.
• Able to multi-task in a challenging technical environment to deliver high quality solutions
• A meticulous team player who has proactive and positive attitude
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills