Data Engineer Lead

In accordance with the applicable laws and regulations on personal data protection, including the Law on Personal Data Protection and its implementing regulations, Home Credit Vietnam Finance Company Limited (“Home Credit”) collects and processes candidates’ personal data for recruitment purposes and other related purposes in accordance with the Agreement, Notice and Acceptance for Personal Data Processing.

By submitting your application to Home Credit through Linkedin, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to the contents of the Agreement, Notice and Acceptance for Personal Data Processing available at the following link: https://career.homecredit.vn/en/article/agreement-notice-acceptance-for-personal-data-processing/, and consent to Home Credit collecting and processing your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership and Management:

• Lead and mentor agile team of data and AI/ML engineers towards self-organization and empowerment
• Pioneer close collaboration with data/feature analysts and data scientist in virtual team setup based on principles of agile and open-source
• Conduct performance reviews and provide professional development opportunities
• Present team achievements in internal and external events

Continuous Improvement, Technical Excellence and Accountability:

• Ensure proper data model design and feasibility of data products including AI/ML model training/serving, act as a primary contact for technical aspects of data product
• Oversee the technical design and implementation compliance with company strategy and policies
• Follow, select and apply the latest technologies and best practices in data integration and AI/ML

Delivery Tracking:

• Oversee the end-to-end development process from technical perspective
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, in alignment with product owner and users’ expectations, including non-functional requirements (performance, security, stability, observability, continuity)
• Manage expectations, risks and resolve issues that arise during development

Collaboration with Product Owner:

• Work closely with the Product Owner to align development efforts with product goals
• Provide technical input and feasibility assessments for product features and enhancements
• Ensure clear communication and coordination between the team and the Product Owner

Automated testing, code quality and documentation:

• Implement and maintain quality standards for data products
• Ensure regular testing and validation are implemented as vital part of automated CI/CD
• Monitor and improve the performance and efficiency of data flows

Data Governance and Compliance:

• Ensure data products comply with relevant data privacy and security regulations and policies
• Manage data access and usage to protect personal data and other sensitive information

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or related field
• Previous experience with leading data engineering or AI/ML engineering team
• 5+ years in a software development environment preferably involving cross-team dependencies.
• Good knowledge of data modelling, integration, transformation and MLOps on following (or similar) platforms: KServe, Spark, MLflow, Trino, Cassandra, Airflow, Kafka, CEPH, Jupyter, Gitlab, OpenMetadata
• Good level of understanding of typical data consumer use cases including applications, model training, model serving and various visualization tools (PowerBI, Grafana, Evidently).
• Ready to put your hands on to solve the problem
• Thorough understanding and appreciation for the agile and open-source software values and principles
• You’re comfortable around people, your domain expertise coexists with your strong ability to negotiate, influence and provide feedback
• You prefer trusting people and empowerment over micro-management
• You seek continual improvement - Constantly learning to grow your expertise, yourself, and your team.
• Attitude of transparency – Desire and aptitude to bring disclosure and to grow trust between the business and IT
• Fluent English

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• 13th Salary Fixed and KPI Bonus
• Premium Health Care for personal & 3 dependents
• 24/7 Accidental Insurance
• 100% Social Insurance
• Meal + Phone Allowance
• Yearly Medical Checkup
• 18 Annual Leaves
• Professional and Transparent Working Environment
• Apply Latest Financial Technology in the World