Data Platform Lead: Strategic Innovation

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa iLaunch Full time
About the Role

iLaunch is seeking a highly skilled Product Area Lead: Data Engineering Excellence to lead our full stack engineering teams in accelerating autonomous value creation through Insights and Machine Learning.

Responsibilities
  • Information Flow - Achieve a seamless flow of information between internal users and teams.
  • Product Vision - Establish a compelling product vision, gain funding for, and deliver an ambitious transformative roadmap.
  • PRD's - Write detailed Product Requirements Documents.
  • Success Metrics - Define or refine success metrics and Service Level Objectives (SLO's).
  • Talent Development - Develop and retain world-class product management talent.
  • Data Ingestion - Focus on enabling the company to quickly and reliably ingest, transform, process data, and adhere to the highest standards of privacy and security.

Requirements
  • Education - Matric /Grade 12.
  • Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Statistics/Informatics or National Diploma in Information Technology or related discipline.
  • Experience - 7+ years' experience in leading data platform teams with about 2 years in cloud technologies.
  • Budget Management - Experience owning and managing a budget, including resource planning from storage and compute costs, cost of team development, and retention.


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