Data Engineering Technical Lead

📊 Data Engineering Technical Lead

Locations: Colombo

PetDesk combines user-friendly client engagement tools with a top-rated pet parent app to simplify veterinary clinic operations and strengthen client relationships. The company is expanding its data engineering capacity to support a growing product portfolio and rising analytical demand.

About the Role

PetDesk is seeking an experienced hands-on technical lead to drive data engineering initiatives within its growing Sri Lanka-based engineering group. In this contractor role, you will take ownership of technical direction, pipeline architecture, and data modeling while collaborating closely with international teams.

What You Will Do

• Lead technical design for assigned workstreams and produce written proposals prior to implementation.
• Build and maintain production data models and pipelines using dbt Core, Snowflake SQL, and Python.
• Investigate raw source data directly to determine modeling requirements and join logic.
• Review pull requests daily to uphold rigorous modeling conventions and performance standards.
• Manage pipeline reliability, proactively diagnosing failures and configuring alerts.
• Mentor local engineers through pairing and design feedback to foster platform ownership.
• Coordinate daily across regions to translate business questions into actionable technical scopes.

What You Need

• At least 8 years of experience in data or software engineering, including 2+ years as a technical lead, architect, or owner of a major data platform.
• Expert SQL skills, including analytical functions and cloud data warehouse performance tuning, with Snowflake strongly preferred.
• Deep production experience with dbt Core, encompassing multi-repo structures, testing strategies, macros, and incremental models.
• Strong Python skills for pipeline development, API integrations, and orchestration using Airflow or similar tools.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret raw, undocumented source systems and design robust models independently.
• Working familiarity with ingestion tooling such as Airbyte or Fivetran, CDC patterns, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines like Buildkite or GitHub Actions, and AWS scripting or infrastructure-as-code.
• Clear communication skills in English, with a track record of documenting decisions and elevating engineering standards.

Work Arrangement

• Contractor engagement based in Colombo, collaborating closely with regional and US-based teams.

How to Apply

Apply through the organisation's careers page via the Apply button.

Contact Information

• Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/petdesk/ef639182-d513-4eaa-b1fc-9f5483a05d42

PetDesk combines user-friendly client engagement tools with a top-rated pet parent app to simplify veterinary clinic operations and strengthen client relationships. The company is expanding its data engineering capacity to support a growing product portfolio and rising analytical demand.