# Asia Group Functions Lead Data Engineer

**Company**: Manulife Financial Corporation
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Manulife is seeking a skilled and motivated Lead Data Engineer to join their diverse team and play a key role in implementing, optimizing, and maintaining assets that deliver new data capabilities.

The ideal candidate possesses a solid background in data engineering, ETL processes, and data integration, with a passion for understanding data to drive strategic business decisions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide technical guidance and leadership to build a high-performing data engineering team

- Mentor and coach data engineers on the team

- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team culture

- Ensure team members meet project timelines and deliver high-quality solutions

- Stay up-to-date with the latest tools and technologies and identify opportunities to enhance Manulife's data infrastructure

- Partner with other lead data engineers, data analysts, business collaborators, and data scientists to understand data requirements

- Design, develop, and manage data pipelines that facilitate the extraction, transformation, and loading of data from diverse sources

- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand and design schemas for data from various source systems

- Continuously improve and optimize ETL processes to enhance data flow efficiency

- Implement data cleansing, enrichment, and transformation processes to ensure high-quality data

- Design testing plans, develop and implement data quality checks, and validation rules

- Collaborate with technical resources to identify and implement improvements to the infrastructure

- Work closely with business leads and data architects to design and implement end-to-end architecture

- Develop and maintain detailed documentation for data pipelines, processes, and configurations

- Monitor data pipeline performance and solve issues to ensure efficient data flow

- Ensure consistency with data privacy and compliance standards throughout the data lifecycle

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

- 10+ years of experience as a Data Engineer

- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Python/Pyspark, Java, Scala

- Understanding of Azure infrastructure and security principles

- Experience deploying and integrating Azure Data Services using DevOps tools and principles

- Knowledge of Azure Data Lake Storage and its topology

- Proficient in data mart fact and dimension design concepts, ETL/ELT logic

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with LLM and AI tools

- Experience using Unity Catalog

- Experience using Power BI to connect to sources with ADLS

- Solid understanding of data privacy and compliance regulations

- Excellent problem-solving skills and effective communication skills

## Skills

### Required
- Azure Data Factory
- Databricks
- Python
- Pyspark
- Java
- Scala
- Azure infrastructure
- DevOps tools
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- ETL/ELT logic

### Nice to have
- LLM and AI tools
- Unity Catalog
- Power BI

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