Chapter Lead Data Interaction in Amsterdam

You are an ambitious, enthusiastic software engineer. You enjoy designing, developing, testing and maintaining complex data-driven systems. Preferably, you have worked with low-latency distributed systems before, or you have read about them and tried some things out for yourself.

You are a good programmer with a strong theoretical basis; nobody has to explain you the details of KISS, DRY, YAGNI and the GoF OOP design patterns. You have some experience in functional programming and know its core principles. You are able to write clean, correct, efficient and maintainable code.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage and achieve IT maturity and the squad's mission
• Spends approximately half of the time working as an Engineer in his/ her squad.
• Has an up-to-date vision regarding IT expertise and keeps abreast of developments:
• Stays one step ahead in the domain of data and reporting and applies learnings in its specific context
• Defines and ensures application of standards in his/her own area of IT expertise.
• Organizes regular meetings to share relevant insights/developments in his/her own IT expertise with members of his/her own and possibly also other chapters.

People and Chapter management

• Encourages chapter members to develop themselves and facilitates this (e.g. providing training opportunities).
• Provides coaching both in terms of professional and of personal development. Constantly ensures development of individual members' expertise.
• Is responsible for the personal development and evaluation of the chapter members, based on input from the Product Owner, the Agile Coach and individual squad members.
• Identifies top performance and takes action at an early stage for underperformance.
• Supports talent acquisition and retention management activities (e.g. interview applicants)
• Discusses resource planning for squads and chapter with the IT Area Lead and Product Owner.

Delivery

• Is a key member of the Product Owner, Chapter Lead and Agile Coach (POCLAC) sessions, where ways to optimize performance and improvement of capabilities of the squad are discussed
• Creating and safeguarding the 'new' culture
• Has an active role in embedding the Agile way of working within a Spotify Model.
• Functions as an ambassador for cultural change and advocates the 'organization doing' principles rather than ‘organizational talking’ ones.
• Puts in place a culture of self-development and high performing teams.

Skill and Competences

• REST APIs
• Scala, Akka, Python
• Cassandra
• Kafka
• Spark/Flink
• Docker / Kubernetes / Openshift

Do you recognize yourself in this profile:

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science or related subject
• Knowledge of data manipulation and transformation, e.g. SQL
• Strong programming skills in Scala with passion for FP. Thrive on challenges around microservices, performance, scalability and concurrency
• Hands-on experience managing and further developing distributed systems and clusters for both batch as well as streaming data (Hadoop/Spark and/or Kafka/Flink)
• Experience in setting up both SQL as well as noSQL databases
• Deployment and provisioning automation tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, CI/CD
• Bash scripting and Linux systems administration
• Security, authentication and authorization (LDAP / Kerberos / PAM)
• Affinity with Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning
• Is inspiring and bring energy and passion.
• Has a keen IT market focus
• Is focused on collaboration
• Actively seeks help and feedback, but is not afraid to give feedback either.
• Is curious and always looks out for innovation opportunities in his/her focus area.