Team Lead, DataOps
About this job opportunity
Our Vision
To be the world's most trusted global payroll partner, simplifying pay for all employees.
Our Mission
Empowering global workforces with seamless, compliant, and innovative payroll and payment solutions, enabling businesses to thrive in a connected world.
Our People
Our fundamental beliefs at CloudPay are built on core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork. We value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We're committed to providing an excellent employee experience through fulfilling projects, empowerment to make a difference, and an environment that inspires innovation.
What makes this role exciting
The DataOps Team Lead is responsible for leading and scaling CloudPay’s DataOps capability, ensuring the reliable, secure, and efficient operation of data pipelines, platforms, and analytics services. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, platform operations, and analytics, enabling rapid, trustworthy data delivery across the business while maintaining strong governance and compliance.
You will lead a team of DataOps engineers, define best practices, and partner closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Security, Product, and Infrastructure teams to support CloudPay’s global data estate.
Main responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing DataOps team
Set technical direction, priorities, and operating standards for DataOps
Foster a culture of reliability, automation, ownership, and continuous improvement
Support hiring, onboarding, and career development within the team
Data Platform & Operations
Own the operational health, performance, and availability of CloudPay’s data platforms
Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident management for data pipelines
Ensure SLAs, SLOs, and data freshness commitments are met
Drive automation to reduce manual intervention and operational risk
Data Pipeline Reliability & Quality
Implement robust CI/CD processes for data pipelines and analytics assets
Establish data quality checks, validation frameworks, and anomaly detection
Partner with Data Engineering to improve pipeline resilience, scalability, and cost efficiency
Manage schema evolution, dependency tracking, and lineage visibility
Governance, Security & Compliance
Ensure strong data access controls, auditability, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR)
Support payroll- and payment-grade data accuracy and traceability
Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams on policies and controls
Promote best practices in data privacy, retention, and classification
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
Act as a bridge between Data Engineering, Analytics, Product, and Operations
Enable self‑service analytics while protecting platform stability
Influence roadmap decisions with operational insights and metrics
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Experience needed for this role
Strong experience in DataOps, Data Engineering, or Platform Engineering
Hands-on knowledge of modern data stacks (e.g. cloud data warehouses, ETL/ELT tools, orchestration frameworks)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Preferred), Azure, or GCP)
Proficiency in MySQL and at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
Experience implementing CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing for data systems
Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and alerting tools
Leadership & Ways of Working
Proven experience leading or mentoring technical teams
Strong problem-solving and operational mindset
Experience working in Agile or DevOps-oriented environments
Comfortable owning incidents, post-mortems, and continuous improvement actions
What will give you the advantage
Experience in SaaS, fintech, payroll, payments, or regulated environments
Exposure to large-scale, high-volume, business-critical datasets
Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance principles
About you and Our core values
Taking ownership, working with integrity and respect
Being a team player is key to our culture
Solution and customer focused
Great initiative with the goal for excellence in achieving results
Dedicated to developing and always looking for continuous improvements
Be creative, be committed, be engaged and enjoy what you do
We are hiring in Poland, Spain, or the Philippines, with local packages and Benefits to apply.
CloudPay is committed to being an equal opportunities employer.
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The CloudPay culture is built upon on five core values, from which we develop our service, our technology and our business strategies. Our fundamental beliefs are a promise to our employees, customers and partners, built on the core values of professionalism, passion, empowerment, innovation, and teamwork.
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