🚀 Tech Lead, Data & Intelligence
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Lead the founding data and intelligence team by designing the platform architecture and establishing data culture. Own the end-to-end delivery of the data roadmap while mentoring engineers and partnering with business stakeholders.
✨ About the Role
Equiem is a global PropTech company that has spent 14 years building a platform that transforms how people experience buildings. In that time, we've accumulated something remarkable: 7 years of rich behavioural event data from buildings across three continents — every tenant check-in, booking, event RSVP, access swipe, and login flowing through our platform is captured by Cortex, our central metrics service.
Until now, that data has been underutilised. Engineering has operated as a "human API" — fielding manual export requests from Customer Success, Support, and Product teams who can't self-serve. Business logic has been buried in QuickSight, invisible to engineers and inconsistent across reports. Ad-hoc queries have gone through a single person. That's changing.
We're forming a dedicated data & intelligence team for the first time, and this is the founding leadership position. You'll be building something genuinely new a team, an architecture, and a data culture on top of a solid foundation: a serverless AWS pipeline, a dbt transformation layer, and evolving BI tools.
As Tech Lead of the data & intelligence team, you'll sit at the intersection of technical architecture and team leadership. You'll shape how the data platform evolves, own its quality and reliability, grow the engineers around you, and be the bridge between data and the broader business.
🎯 What You'll Do
Essential:
• Strong hands-on data engineering background you've built and operated production ELT/ETL pipelines
• Deep dbt experience you know staging, intermediate, and mart models and have strong opinions on data modelling
• Solid familiarity with AWS data services: Athena, S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, and/or Redshift
• Proven track record of technical leadership writing RFCs, leading architectural decisions, helping teams execute
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers with examples of measurably improved capability
• Strong SQL skills write complex analytical queries, diagnose slow queries, design efficient mart tables
• Excellent communication translate data model decisions and pipeline tradeoffs for Product and CS teams
• Comfort with greenfield and emergent architecture
Nice to Have:
• Experience building or owning a BI platform end-to-end not just transformation but tooling layers too
• Familiarity with event-driven data pipelines and streaming architectures (Kinesis, Kafka)
• Experience with customer-facing data products APIs, scheduled feeds, data integration
• Exposure to AI/ML data requirements
• Experience managing third-party delivery partners on data platforms
• Background in B2B SaaS, PropTech, or event-heavy platform businesses
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI DSS, GDPR)
💚 Why You'll Love It Here
Equiem is a global PropTech company that has spent 14 years building a platform that transforms how people experience buildings. In that time, we've accumulated something remarkable: 7 years of rich behavioural event data from buildings across three continents — every tenant check-in, booking, event RSVP, access swipe, and login flowing through our platform is captured by Cortex, our central metrics service.
Until now, that data has been underutilised. Engineering has operated as a "human API" — fielding manual export requests from Customer Success, Support, and Product teams who can't self-serve. Business logic has been buried in QuickSight, invisible to engineers and inconsistent across reports. Ad-hoc queries have gone through a single person. That's changing.
We're forming a dedicated data & intelligence team for the first time, and this is the founding leadership position. You'll be building something genuinely new a team, an architecture, and a data culture on top of a solid foundation: a serverless AWS pipeline, a dbt transformation layer, and evolving BI tools.
As Tech Lead of the data & intelligence team, you'll sit at the intersection of technical architecture and team leadership. You'll shape how the data platform evolves, own its quality and reliability, grow the engineers around you, and be the bridge between data and the broader business.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Own and evolve the data platform architecture making principled decisions about the data platform shape, shared data model, and pipeline patterns.
- Lead technical design for the team writing RFCs, ADRs, facilitating architecture discussions.
- Hold the standard for dbt model quality: staging → intermediate → mart discipline with meaningful tests and clear documentation.
- Identify and address non-functional requirements data freshness SLAs, reliability, PII handling, cost optimization.
- Provide technical mentorship to data engineers at all levels through design reviews, PR feedback, and pairing.
- Drive end-to-end delivery of the data team's roadmap from requirements through production-quality models and pipelines.
- Be the primary technical partner for Product, Customer Success, and Support on all data matters.
Essential:
• Strong hands-on data engineering background you've built and operated production ELT/ETL pipelines
• Deep dbt experience you know staging, intermediate, and mart models and have strong opinions on data modelling
• Solid familiarity with AWS data services: Athena, S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, and/or Redshift
• Proven track record of technical leadership writing RFCs, leading architectural decisions, helping teams execute
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers with examples of measurably improved capability
• Strong SQL skills write complex analytical queries, diagnose slow queries, design efficient mart tables
• Excellent communication translate data model decisions and pipeline tradeoffs for Product and CS teams
• Comfort with greenfield and emergent architecture
Nice to Have:
• Experience building or owning a BI platform end-to-end not just transformation but tooling layers too
• Familiarity with event-driven data pipelines and streaming architectures (Kinesis, Kafka)
• Experience with customer-facing data products APIs, scheduled feeds, data integration
• Exposure to AI/ML data requirements
• Experience managing third-party delivery partners on data platforms
• Background in B2B SaaS, PropTech, or event-heavy platform businesses
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI DSS, GDPR)
💚 Why You'll Love It Here
- Flexible remote working, wellbeing leave, paid parental leave, EAP, leadership development, great culture
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