data platform Engineer managerJapan Tobacco International

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DATA PLATFORM ENGINEER MANAGER
Provides guidance on design and management of data for data applications, formulate best practices and development standards, organize processes for data management, governance and evolution. Build processes and tools to maintain high data availability, quality and maintainability. He/She will develop and maintain architectural roadmap for data products and data services plus ensuring alignment with the business and Enterprise Architecture strategies and standards.
The incumbent will determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies, keeping in mind performance, reliability, scalability, usability, security, flexibility, and cost.
He/She will explore new ways to implement/automate data quality and reliability processes with the aim to reduce development times and to provide most optimal and cost effective data assets for Data Analyst and Data Scientists to consume.
Define best practices for source code control and align with DEVOPS platform. Ensure that traceability of source code is always possible to help and facilitate the maintenance and tracking of releases to Production specially in cases of roll-backs.
The incumbent will manage the Power BI service incl. architecture, operations, change requests, incident management, financials and data protection.
The incumbent will participate along with data engineers in the onboarding of new projects.
The incumbent will define and propose PoC's to test and assess new Azure or Power BI functionalities.
Provide consultancy for new projects and support the customer in finding the best solution/architecture for reporting, visualization and data models in Power BI.
Analyze the impact of new and evolving business requirements and explore the feasibility of how to accommodate them.
Work with Data & Analytics, IT-BTS and Functions together with external development teams in order to ensure that the configuration and customization meet business requirements and performance baseline.
Monitor and continuos follow-up of incident resoultion in the CDLP.
Design monitoring processes for performance and consumption in every CDLP project.
Discover and design enhancements in the CDLP processes.
What will you do?
1). Central Data Lake Platform re-enginner towards a new Data Mesh paradigm under the Data Platform and Operations team governance, which includes:
Intensively collaborate in the implementation of the Data Mesh concept by provisioning azure resources that will be needed by the data domains or the data federation modules.
Design and develop artifacts that will reduce the deployment time of new data domains inside the Data Mesh concept
Participate on new data initiatives: Purview, Trident, in order to facilitate their implementation.
Design the data pipelines for the corresponding projects ensuring that are highly available, scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective
Collaborate with GTC, EA and IT Security teams to receive the green light for the chosen topology; ensure that new development will fulfil the security and technical requirements
Design and document the application topology, technology recommendation and delivery methodology;
Work with the project manager and external service providers to estimate the resources, budget and plan. Highlight the known risks.
Design unit/integration tests, contributes to engineering wiki, and documents work.
Supervise the development up to the UAT phase and coordinate bug fixing during UAT
Roll outs and deployments to Production support. Ensuring the cutover is defined and followed up.
Ensure Data pipelines maintenance and performance testing.
Responsible for the CI/CD of developments
2). Central Data Lake Platform Governance monitoring, automation, optimization and support:
Institute patterns that support data ingestion, data movement, transformations, aggregations, and more.
Create optimal data pipeline architecture ensuring that the data has the best suitable format from the point of view of consumption and cost in every stage of the datalake.
Conceptualizing and generating infrastructure that allows big data to be accessed and analyzed
Reformulating existing data frameworks to optimize their functioning
Remaining up-to-date with industry standards and technological advancements that will improve the operation and quality of the data platform
Design and implement monitoring processes of the whole Central Data Lake Platform, including: performance, cost, availability indicators at the project/resource level.
Provide, review and confirm technical solutions aligned with the Data Platform Delivery Team Manager
Identify and design internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
Ensure that technical specs documentation is regularly maintained and updated
3). Power BI service platform architecture, maintenance and support:
Provide, review and confirm technical solutions aligned with the Data Platform Delivery Team Manager
Provide consultancy for new projects and support the customer in finding the best solution/architecture for workspaces, datasets, dataflows, datamarts, reports and dashboards.
Manage the service including operations, change requests, incident management, financials and data protection.
Along with the data projects requirements, define the best suitable security model to be implemented
Monitor Power BI assets usage, prevent outages and detect underused resources.
Elaborate dataset and dataflow development standards
Provide support to the data modelers on the optimization of DAX queries and Power Query transformations.
Continuosly evaluate Power BI updates and advice data modelers on new functionalities.
Ensure lifecycle of existing PowerBi artifacts
4). Central Data Lake Platform innovation:
Identify development tasks where the implementation time can be reduced: standard and configurable data factory pipelines, databricks classes, sql data model for configuration, control and logging of data pipelines, generic logic apps, azure functions and arm templates
Work with Delivery Team Managers within Data Platform team to review and identify developments and processes that could be parametrized in the CDLP and ensure adoption across projects for optimization purposes (time and cost).
Stay abreast of trends and new capabilities of the CDLP and PowerBI platform
Work closely with Microsoft counterpart to identify new features in the roadmap, assess and analyze and decide with early adoption would be beneficial for JTI.
Proactively analyze technology trends & JTI business demand to identify upcoming opportunities
Drive internal proof of concept initiatives. When needed, quickly design and implement a prototype of a system or component with a proper architecture, and then upon succesfull POC, hand it over to a development teams to implement.
Who are we looking for?
College or University degree
10+ years of experience in Data and Analytics with high exposure to IT architecture and solutioning for data flows among system and applications.
5+ years delivering solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform with a special emphasis on data solutions and services
5+ years delivering solutions on the Power BI platform with a special emphasis on architecture, security and maintenance.
5+ years of DEVOPS, CI/CD
Azure Data Lakes, DataBricks and Data Factory experience is a must.
Experience in Power BI reporting solutions and Capacity Management
CI/CD experience and Microsoft DEVOPS solution is a must
Very good understanding of Azure PaaS management and resource monitoring and security principles
Very good Database skills (Azure SQL and Synapse), scripting and data modeling
Strong analytical skills and troubleshooting skills
Excellent team leadership and communication skills.
Very good written and spoken English.
What's in it for you?
Work in a brand-new office located in BGC McKinley West
Be covered with medical insurance upon hiring, with dependent coverage and medicine allowance
Receive cash allowances such as meal and transport allowance
Flexible working arrangements
Have access to over 200 company training
Be part of a truly international and diverse company with over 40,000 employees in 130 countries.
Experience the culture of an Investors in People certified company
Find out why 9 out of 10 employees recommend us to a friend.
Understand why 9 out of 10 employees say they feel free to be themselves
What are the next steps - Recruitment Process:
Thank you very much for applying!
We will make sure to provide feedback on your application within 2 weeks after the application deadline.
Japan Tobacco International

Taguig City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time