Data Platform Engineer Lead | IT & Technology Services | Financial Industry
Techforce Group Limited Data Platform Engineer Lead | IT & Technology Services | Financial Industry
Summary
Techforce Group is hiring a Data Platform Engineer Lead in Hong Kong's financial industry to lead and mentor data engineers and vendors while hands-on building enterprise data platforms, data lakes/lakehouses, and ETL/ELT pipelines. Core stack: SQL, PL/SQL/Oracle, Python, and modern platforms like Databricks or Microsoft Fabric.
Data Platform Engineer Lead | IT & Technology Services | Financial Industry
Lead, mentor, and coordinate a team of Data Engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing solutions, allocating work, and ensuring engineering quality and timely delivery. Drive the design and implementation of enterprise data platforms, data lakes, lakehouses, and target-state data architectures. Provide hands‑on technical leadership for the design, development, automation, and optimization of complex ETL/ELT processes, data migrations, and data pipelines using SQL, PL/SQL, Python, and modern data engineering frameworks.
Key responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and coordinate a team of Data Engineers, providing technical direction, reviewing solutions, allocating work, and ensuring engineering quality and timely delivery
Manage delivery across internal engineering teams and external vendors, aligning responsibilities, technical standards, dependencies, deliverables, and timelines
Work closely with Technical Project Managers, Data Analysts, Data Architects, business stakeholders, and other technology teams to translate business and project requirements into scalable technical solutions
Drive the design and implementation of enterprise data platforms, data lakes, lakehouses, and target-state data architectures
Provide hands‑on technical leadership for the design, development, automation, and optimization of complex ETL/ELT processes, data migrations, and data pipelines
Establish and enforce engineering standards covering data quality, security, governance, code quality, architecture, performance, and operational readiness
Partner with Technical PMs to manage technical priorities, dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery milestones
Build robust, scalable data foundations that support analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI use cases
About you
7+ years of IT/data engineering experience, with proven experience in a senior engineering, technical lead, or data team leadership role
Demonstrated experience coordinating internal engineering teams and third‑party vendors, with strong ownership of technical quality and project delivery
Strong experience working with Technical PMs, Data Analysts, architects, business stakeholders, and engineering teams throughout the project delivery lifecycle
Strong hands‑on experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks or Microsoft Fabric, and data engineering technologies including SQL, PL/SQL/Oracle, and Python
Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT, data pipelines, data integration, data migration, data modeling, data lakes/lakehouses, and enterprise data architecture
Ability to make technical decisions, review engineering approaches, troubleshoot complex issues, establish engineering standards, and guide engineers and vendors toward scalable solutions
Strong problem‑solving, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to bridge business requirements, project delivery, and technical implementation
Strong communication skills in English and Chinese, with Mandarin and/or Cantonese suitable for working across technical teams and stakeholders
North Point, Eastern District, HK
Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong District, HK
Software Engineering (SE)