Senior Software Engineer – Data Platform (Tech Lead) - CTBC

▪ Own and govern the data ingestion and integration architecture for the enterprise data platform.

▪ Define and evolve scalable, reusable, and production-grade data interfaces across all source systems and business domains.

▪ Provide technical leadership and design authority for all data platform ingestion and integration components, ensuring engineering quality, scalability, and reliability.

▪ Establish and enforce software engineering and architecture standards across data platform development (CI/CD, testing, observability, design patterns).

▪ Act as the primary escalation point and technical authority for complex ingestion, integration, and data platform challenges.

▪ Guide and support a distributed team of software engineers and data engineers in building production-grade ingestion services and platform components.

▪ Collaborate closely with platform architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business IT teams to ensure secure, compliant, and sustainable system design.

▪ Drive consistency and reuse across data platform patterns, frameworks, and engineering practices.

Main Tasks:

▪ Define and evolve ingestion frameworks for batch, streaming, API-based, and event-driven architectures.

▪ Establish and govern standards for structured and unstructured data (JSON, CSV, XML), including schema evolution and compatibility strategies.

▪ Design and review production-grade ingestion and integration patterns, ensuring fault tolerance, observability, and performance.

▪ Define and enforce API design standards, reliability patterns, and contract management.

▪ Lead design reviews for high-risk or complex ingestion pipelines, focusing on scalability, security, and maintainability.

▪ Support engineers in implementing robust error handling, retry mechanisms, orchestration, and monitoring.

▪ Collaborate with system owners to define interface specifications and integration strategies.

▪ Align ingestion architecture with overall platform design, governance, and business requirements.

▪ Enable ingestion patterns for advanced use cases, including data science, machine learning, and AI/LLM integrations.

▪ Maintain and evolve reusable libraries, templates, and framework components to accelerate development.

▪ Promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, testing strategies (unit, integration), and CI/CD pipelines.

▪ Define and maintain architecture blueprints, design guidelines, and engineering standards.

▪ Create reusable architecture patterns for lakehouse-based data platform.

▪ Provide guidance on scalability strategies, resource utilization, and performance optimization.

▪ Support cost transparency, usage optimization, and efficient resource consumption across the platform.

Qualifications

▪ Degree in Computer Science or a related field.

▪ 6–10 years of experience in software engineering and data platform development, with a focus on large-scale, enterprise-grade systems.

▪ Proven track record of technical leadership and architectural ownership in distributed systems or data platforms.

▪ Strong hands-on experience with Scala / Java and Python in a production software engineering environment.

▪ Deep understanding of data integration patterns (APIs, CDC, streaming, event-driven architectures).

▪ Experience designing and governing reusable frameworks, platform components, and engineering standards.

▪ Strong knowledge of CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and observability practices.

▪ Experience with Microsoft Azure or other hyperscaler environments.

▪ Familiarity with lakehouse and data warehousing architectures; Databricks experience is a plus.

▪ Ability to guide and mentor engineers while collaborating across global teams and stakeholders.

NOT a fit if your experience is primarily:

▪ Notebook-based data processing (e.g. Jupyter, ad-hoc PySpark) without production deployment

▪ Dashboarding / analytics / BI tools

▪ SQL-only roles without software engineering experience

Additional Information

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;
Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;
Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;
Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;
Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;
Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;
Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;
System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);
Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;
Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;
Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);
Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.
Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;
Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.