Protegrity - Engineering Manager - Big Data (12-16 yrs)

Protegrity is seeking a passionate and talented Manager, Engineering Big Data to join our team. This position is a remote role.

Data Privacy is important to all of us. At Protegrity our products make this possible in rest, in motion and in view for some of the largest companies in the world. Protegrity puts our customers in the best possible position to choose how they want to protect their data and make it private. Thanks to the centralized management and transparency of our platform- a single pane of glass- teams can see where the data resides and what its purpose is.

Unlike other data protection options, the Protegrity data Protection Platform clarifies the state of data so organizations can choose how to protect it and keep it private using the full range of methods from basic monitoring and dynamic data masking to highly secure vaultless tokenization

Since our founding over 10 years ago, we are fully vested in helping clients protect their information. Whether encrypting, tokenizing, or applying privacy methods, our platform secures the data behind the many operational systems that drive the day-to-day functions of business, as well as the analytical systems behind decision-making, personalized customer experiences, and AI modelling.

All of this propels businesses forward by fuelling innovation and giving clients a competitive advantage over less savvy competitors. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a global team with a product that the business marketplace MUST have in place to do business.

This job is for you if :

You are a seasoned technology professional interested in mentoring/leading people/team and at the same time stay abreast with cutting edge technology. You are passionate about technology and leadership of technical product team. As part of talented team, you will mentor and oversee talented engineers and make them more effective with your experience and skills. As part of R&D team you will also contribute to product development in a fast-paced Agile environment.

This also includes leading by example on hands on work but not limited to it. As a manager you will also be part of an end-to-end process of product development starting from problem definition to a customer release.

Responsibilities :

- Primary responsibility is to manage research and development of a product. The person should have techno-managerial abilities to deliver product features, work with associated technologies and manage the team delivering it. The individual should be hands on to the product development and interest towards technology.

- Take ownership of performance management, competency development, learning and career development opportunities for your team direct reports, follow processes laid down by Human Resources. Manage team resources including hiring and onboarding the right people as per company requirement and direction from leadership.

- Your expertise should help team members to have clear requirements and focus on the goals to be achieved for every sprint and release. Align the teams and individuals to the required skill levels to effectively contribute to their jobs. Lead the team/individuals with motivation and examples.

- Participate as a process contributor in one or more Agile teams. Work with the Scrum Master to set rationale objectives for team members. Assist to Agile teams to prioritize Product Backlog and to streamline execution of project priorities in conjunction with set goals as per the leadership guidance. Manage the engineering product backlog of the associated product team as an owner.

- Adaptability to learn and enhance skills in the domain of data security alongside the products technology requirements

- Ability to review work of reporting engineers.

- Ability to be a good team player and soft skilled person.

Qualification :

- 10+ years of relevant experience in developing enterprise software & leading/managing a team.

- Provide technical guidance and build high performing team to deliver organization goals.

- Self-driven with the ability to motivate the team.

- Ability to mentor & review work of other engineers and capable to be hands on in development too.

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to mentor inside the team and across the teams.

- Communication : Effective written and verbal communication to collaborate with agile teams, Product Management and customers seamlessly.

- Collaborate with other functions in the organization effectively to ensure effective implementation of various operational processes and best practices to improve team efficiency

- Sufficient knowledge of office productivity tools to represent formal exchange of technical content & interpersonal communication.

- Analytical and Problem-Solving Skill : Should employ Analytical skills and creative thinking to gather and analyse data, solve problems and to make optimum decisions quickly.

Preferred Qualifications :

Preferred Technical Skills :

Good knowledge of working in the below technology domains :

- Cloud Computing as a developer on any of the public or private clouds.

- Should be good at concepts of Cloud Computing.

- Good understanding of Big Data systems like Cloudera, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Databricks, EMR etc.

- Exposure to data warehouses and processing of data in data lakes.

- Preferred hands-on to Databricks SQL, Starburst Trino, Snowflake, Redshift (Programming exposure is expected alongside SQL knowledge)

- Good programming expertise.

- Preferred programming languages Java, Python, C/C++

- Hands on experience in working with Linux & Windows OS

- Data Storage and File Systems with exposure to programming associated with it

- Cryptography and Security (Network Security or Information Security or Data Security)

- Familiarity to DevOps and automation tools. Knowledge of Jenkins/TeamCity preferred.

- Familiarity to source code management tools like GIT.

- Knowledge of modern SDLC practices, agile methodologies & tools such as JIRA.

- Knowledge of cryptography and cryptographic algorithms. Understanding of data security requirements and associated standards like NIST, OWASP, PCI-DSS etc.