Technical Lead (Dart) | €450/day | Hybrid | Madrid
hace 22 horas
Madrid
Technical Lead (DART) Rate: €450 per day Experience: 4-8 years Location: Madrid, Spain (Hybrid working) Languages: Spanish and English My client, an innovative accelerator company specializing in digital transformation, working with a diverse range of clients is looking for a strong Technical Lead (DART) with 4-8 years proven industry experience. Role Purpose: The Technical Lead (TL) provides end‑to‑end technical leadership and governance across the DART teams, ensuring engineering practices, cost transparency, and architectural consistency while enabling delivery at pace. The TL is fully dedicated to this role and acts as the primary technical authority connecting multiple organisations and delivery units (ACOE, AIDA, D&A, Local Markets), owning technical standards, cost governance, and platform integrity — without being accountable for defining long‑term technology roadmaps. Role Characteristics • Full‑time, dedicated role (no split delivery responsibilities), • Senior technical leadership position with enterprise‑wide influence, • Strong collaboration focus across markets and central teams, • High accountability with decision‑making authority Key Responsibilities 1. Role Ownership and Decision Accountability • Act as the single point of ownership for technical problems and their resolution across Data & AI initiatives., • Manage priorities and dependencies across four key actors (ACOE, AIDA, D&A, Local Markets), facilitating negotiations and resolving conflicts effectively., • Ensure clarity of ownership for technical decisions, risks, and outcomes, avoiding ambiguity and duplicated accountability. 2. Access, Authority, and Governance • Hold unrestricted access to all relevant GCP projects to enable architecture reviews, recommendations, innovation assessments, and cost analysis., • Exercise authority to allocate resources, enforce standards, and manage accountability across teams not directly reporting into the role., • Chair and operate a Technical Assurance Board with the mandate to make binding decisions, including approval, rejection, or blocking of technical demands. 3. Collaborative Technical Leadership • Provide technical guidance through collaboration, not command-and-control, working jointly with:, • Product Owners, • Platform Engineering, • Solution Design, • Delivery Leads, • Connect teams, understand end‑to‑end complexity, and guide outcomes without needing to have all the answers personally. 4. Stakeholder Representation and Alignment • Share formal accountability with D&A Group representative., • Communicate through squad-level representatives to ensure scalable, efficient alignment and avoid unnecessary centralisation., • Act as the escalation point for cross‑squad technical and cost conflicts. 5. Cost Modelling and Input Governance • Ensure accurate and reliable cost models by enforcing input ownership from source system owners, including:, • Data volumes and growth, • Compute patterns and run times, • Lineage and dependencies, • SLAs and availability expectations, • Make clear that without validated input data, GCP cost prediction, budgeting, and optimisation cannot be considered reliable. 6. Innovation and Rationalisation • Create a safe space for innovation, enabling experimentation with new approaches and technologies., • Drive platform rationalisation by:, • Reviewing legacy artefacts, • Migrating non‑standard solutions, • Promoting standard, reusable templates and platforms, • Balance innovation with long‑term sustainability. 7. Standardisation and Lessons Learned • Track, document, and share lessons learned across programmes and markets., • Actively balance delivery velocity vs reusability, avoiding inefficient copy‑paste solutions., • Promote parametrised, reusable engineering patterns as default practice. 8. Cost Monitoring and Platform Governance • Define and enforce cost monitoring strategies and tooling to control and reduce platform run costs., • Standardise on approved technological platforms and patterns., • Ensure governance decisions are supported by transparent data and enforced consistently through the Technical Assurance Board. 9. Action Plan and Continuous Improvement The TL is accountable for defining and driving a clear improvement roadmap, including: • Mandatory run‑cost estimation gates for all initiatives, • Standardised cost monitoring via Cloud Smart, • Freezing and retiring non‑standard data movement paths, • Establishing and operating a Technical Assurance Board with:, • Clear roles and responsibilities, • Decision rights, • Transparent communication mechanisms Defined Accountability Areas (TL Owns) • Engineering and architectural standards, • Approval or rejection of technical demand based on cost and sustainability, • Definition and maintenance of golden paths for data ingestion, transformation, and serving, • Telemetry, observability, and monitoring standards, • Partnership with Finance on budgeting and forecasting, • Chairing the Technical Assurance Board, • Portfolio hygiene reviews and legacy rationalisation, • Publishing reference cost models and benchmarks, • Escalating risks that threaten platform standards, budgets, or long‑term sustainability