Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

For our Client - leader in investment banking in Poland, we are seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

Location: Wrocław, Poland (hybrid - 4 days per week in office, 1 day remote)

How you will make an impact:

• Work closely with source system owners, reporting teams, and data consumers to gather requirements and translate them into scalable database solutions.
• Understand end-to-end data flows, key entities, attributes, and relationships across upstream and downstream systems.
• Convert analytical and reporting needs into logical and physical data models.
• Create and maintain model documentation (ERDs, entity/attribute definitions, mapping specs, naming standards).
• Develop and optimize database objects such as tables, views, indexes, materialized views, sequences, stored procedures/functions, and packages.
• Apply performance tuning techniques (SQL tuning, indexing strategy, partitioning, query plans) to ensure efficient processing at scale.
• Implement validation checks, reconciliation logic, and exception handling to detect and resolve data issues.
• Enforce standards for data definitions and ensure consistency across environments (e.g., dev/qa/prod, multiple platforms).
• Maintain data dictionaries, reference/master data rules, and metadata needed for governance and traceability.
• Promote standard naming conventions, code sets, and reusable patterns.
• Build/maintain database-side ETL/ELT logic and scheduling dependencies where applicable.
• Monitor loads, troubleshoot failures, analyze root cause, and implement corrective actions.
• Identify opportunities to improve data sharing and reduce duplicated data transformations across teams.
• Contribute to data stewardship practices: definitions, ownership, access controls, and auditability.
• Recommend long-term fixes for recurring data defects and performance bottlenecks.
• Support changes through impact analysis, backward/forward compatibility planning, and controlled deployments.

What we are looking for:

• At least 4 years of experience in a similar role
• Strong experience with Oracle and exposure to Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
• Hands-on ability to build scalable workflows using Unix, PL/SQL, and Python
• Experience with AI Agentic Workflows and Automation.
• Strong data engineering capability with real-world, production-grade delivery experience
• Experience building and optimizing batch pipelines running in Unix/Linux environments
• Ability to write complex, performance-tuned SQL (execution plans, indexing awareness, tuning approach)
• Practical experience with ETL/ELT (extraction, transformation, load, controls, audit, restartability)
• Proven ability to handle large datasets with strong focus on data quality, reconciliation, and reliability
• Strong troubleshooting skills for batch failures, data issues, and performance bottlenecks
• Strong scripting knowledge: Shell scripting + good Unix command-line understanding
• RESTful web service experience.
• Strong experience in SDLC, DevOps processes – CI/CD tools, Git, etc.
• Understand microservices based, scalable architecture (previous experience working with Kafka).
• Experience implementing caching (using Hazel cast/ earache / Memcached/others) will be plus.

Benefits & Rewards

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a culture of excellence and a pay‑for‑performance philosophy. You’ll have access to flexible global resources and tools to support your personal and professional journey. Our Client prioritize your health, resilience, and financial wellbeing, and offer generous paid leave — including volunteer time — to support you and your family through life’s important moments.

Hays Poland sp. z o.o. is an employment agency registered in a registry kept by Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship under the number 361