Lead Data Engineer

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Kathmandu, Bagmati Province and two nearshore delivery centres. Karmacharya Software employs 830 people across engineering hubs in Kathmandu and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

The role

We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will help replace a set of fragile nightly scripts with tested, monitored pipelines. Remote, open to candidates across Nepal. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

What you'll be doing

• Respond to pipeline failures and backfill data when needed.
• Document datasets and lineage in a catalogue such as DataHub or Atlan.
• Maintain CI for data code and review pull requests.
• Process large datasets with Spark on Databricks or EMR.
• Model data in dbt using staging, intermediate and mart layers.

Required qualifications

• 8-10 years of data engineering, or backend work with data at volume.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and slowly changing dimensions.
• Expert SQL, including window functions and query tuning.
• Hands-on with an orchestration tool such as Airflow.
• Strong Python for data processing.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD and testing practices for data code.

Preferred

• Dbt Certified Developer or Databricks certification.
• Terraform for data infrastructure.
• Reverse ETL tools like Hightouch or Census.

What you get

• Medical insurance.
• Company laptop.
• Dashain bonus.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Karmacharya Software.