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Technical Lead

Location
Sri Lanka
Type
FullTime
We're looking for an experienced Technical Lead to drive the next phase of our Data Platform at Cut+Dry. This is a senior, hands-on technical role for someone who has built and scaled data platforms(Data warehouse), owned the reliability of business-critical reporting, and is ready to set the technical direction for a small data engineering team. You'll be the senior technical voice for our data warehouse, ingestion pipelines, and analytics delivery - partnering with engineering, product, analytics, and business stakeholders to make sure data at Cut+Dry is accurate, timely, performant, and cost-efficient. You'll write code, design systems, set standards, and mentor in roughly that order of frequency.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

  • Own the architecture and roadmap for the Snowflake data platform, ingestion pipelines, and reporting infrastructure.

  • Set technical standards for data modeling, schema design, query patterns, testing, and observability across the data team.

  • Lead design reviews and make build-vs-buy calls on tooling (ELT platforms, orchestration, BI, replication).

  • Drive multi-quarter initiatives such as warehouse migrations, schema redesigns, and reporting platform consolidations.

Hands-On Data Engineering

  • Design and build scalable ELT/ETL pipelines using Python, SQL, Airbyte, and similar tools - including ingestion from external partner data sources (e.g., third-party catalog/match providers) and internal product databases.

  • Build and maintain reporting suites delivered via internal tooling, scheduled jobs, and email

  • Tune Snowflake performance and spend: warehouse sizing, clustering, caching, query rewrites, and storage management.

  • Own the operational health of business-critical dashboards - including cache strategy, latency targets, and incident response on Highest-priority data issues.

  • Establish SLAs and monitoring for pipelines and dashboards; lead root-cause investigation for data-quality and freshness incidents.

  • Partner with backend engineering on application-to-warehouse integration and event/data contract design.

  • Operate and evolve data workloads on AWS (S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM) and integrate with the broader application infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering / Data Engineering, with at least 2 years in a senior, tech-lead, or staff-equivalent capacity owning a data platform or major data domain.

  • Deep, production-level expertise with data platforms - including schema design, performance tuning, RBAC, cost optimization, and operational practices (credential rotation, replication, recovery).

  • Expert-level Python and SQL for production pipelines, transformations, and tooling.

  • Strong track record designing and operating ELT/ETL systems (Airbyte, Fivetran, dbt, custom Python - any equivalent stack).

  • Experience building reporting and analytics products end-to-end: ingestion → modeling → delivery (BI, embedded dashboards, scheduled email, internal tools).

  • Solid AWS experience (S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM) and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD for data workloads.

  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives that span multiple teams and quarters.

  • Excellent communication - comfortable presenting trade-offs to engineering leadership and translating business asks into technical scope.

Why Work at Cut+Dry
                                                                                                                                        

  • Results-driven company culture that encourages a balanced lifestyle.                                                                                                                  

  • Flexible remote working environment.

  • Above-market remuneration, based on experience and skill level, paid in USD.                                                                                                          

  • Work on cutting-edge platform problems - the kind that meaningfully improves the life of every engineer on the team - in a collaborative and innovative setting.               

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