Data Engineering Manager

Job Description

Job Purpose

This position exists to oversee the design, development, and maintenance of our data application technical setup. This includes managing a team of data engineers, ensuring the quality of data being collected and stored, and developing data pipelines to support data-driven decision-making using reports and dashboards.

Key Accountability Areas

– Lead a team of data engineers/Developers to design, build, and maintain data models and extracts to support reporting and analytics requirements.
– Provide leadership and guidance to team members to ensure quality deliverables and professional development opportunities.
– Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data collected and stored in the data warehouse.
– Ensure adherence to best practices, management processes, and technical constraints.
– Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business requirements for data infrastructure and develop solutions to meet those needs.
– Manage data governance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with regulations and industry best practices.
– Manage and implement data security and access controls to protect sensitive data
– Monitor and troubleshoot data technical application setup to ensure high availability and performance.
– Manage system upgrades, testing, and deployment of new features and functionality.
– Stay up to date with industry trends and technologies related to data engineering, and evaluate new tools and techniques for potential use in the organization.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:
– Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
– Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
– Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
– Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
– Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:
– Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
– Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
– Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:
– Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
– Making a Tangible Difference:
– Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:
– Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
– Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
– Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
– Provide periodic work progress reports.
– Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:
– Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
– Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:
– Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
– Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
– Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:
– Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:
– Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:
– Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.