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Alternative Path is seeking an experience Technical Manager to engage and mentor a team of skilled Data engineer who collaborate on client projects with an asset management firm. In this role, you will collaborate with individuals across the team and various company departments to shape and innovate new products and features for our platform, enhancing existing ones. You will have a large degree of independence and trust, accompanied by team of Engineers. This is an opportunity to join a team-first meritocracy and help grow an entrepreneurial group inside Alternative Path. You will be asked to contribute, given ownership, and will be expected to make your voice heard.
Role Summary
Leading and mentoring a team of seasoned Data engineers performing Web Scraping using various scraping techniques and then utilizing Python’s Pandas library for data cleaning and manipulation. Then ingesting the data into a Database/Warehouse, and scheduling the scrapers using Airflow or other tools.
Role Overview
The Web Scraping Team at Alternative Path is seeking a creative and detail-oriented Leaders to contribute to client projects and lead by examples. This team develops essential applications, datasets, and alerts that directly support client investment decisions. Our focus is to maintain operational excellence by providing highquality proprietary datasets, timely notifications, and exceptional service. The ideal candidate will be selfmotivated, self-sufficient, and possess a passion for tinkering and a love for automation.
What we need
➢ Technical Leadership
- Oversee the design and implementation of web scraping projects to ensure scalability, efficiency, and accuracy.
- Stay updated with and implement the latest technologies, tools, and frameworks in web scraping and data processing.
- Review and approve pull requests to ensure clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Identify and solve complex technical challenges in data extraction, handling, and storage.
- Design and implement monitoring tools and dashboards to ensure system reliability and performance.
➢ Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers to achieve project goals and professional growth.
- Conduct regular one-on-ones to provide feedback, set objectives, and discuss career development.
- Monitor team productivity and allocate resources effectively to meet deadlines.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team culture that promotes innovation and ownership.
➢ Strategic Planning and Execution
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into actionable plans.
- Develop long-term strategies for web scraping solutions, including data storage, compliance, and scalability.
- Drive continuous improvements in process, tools, and methodologies for the team.
- Align team efforts with business goals and identify opportunities for automation and process optimization.
➢ Operational Excellence
- Ensure high-quality deliverables by enforcing best practices in coding, testing, and documentation.
- Optimize the data pipeline to handle large-scale data ingestion and cleaning.
- Implement safeguards for compliance with web scraping regulations and ethical practices.
- Ensure the team adopts best practices for handling sensitive and proprietary data.
Qualifications
Bachelors/master’s degree in computer science or in any related field
Technical Skills Required
- Proficiency in Python and SQL/Database skills is required.
- Must have strong expertise in using Panda’s library (Python).
- Experience with web technologies (HTML/JS, APIs, etc.) is essential.
- Should have a good understanding of tools such as Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, and Selenium.
- Responsible for reviewing and approving pull requests to ensure clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Experience building scalable scraping solutions for large-scale data collection
- Familiarity with AWS technologies like S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, and others is necessary.
Interview Process
The selection process involves two key stages. In the initial phase, candidates will undergo screening and interviews conducted by Alternative Path’s experienced team. This stage aims to assess the candidate's overall fit for the role, including their skills, experience, and cultural alignment.
Following successful completion of the initial phase, candidates will progress to the second stage, which involves additional interviews conducted by the client's team. These interviews will delve deeper into technical aspects, allowing the client to evaluate the candidate's proficiency in key areas relevant to the role.
All interviews will be conducted remotely, providing flexibility and convenience. As part of the process, candidates may be required to undertake an online screening test; however, this may be optional for certain candidates. However, all candidates will go through two to three rounds of technical interviews, where they will be asked to solve technical problems online.
To participate effectively in these technical interviews, candidates must have access to a laptop equipped for programming problem-solving, screen sharing, and video communication. This approach ensures a thorough evaluation of the candidate's technical skills and suitability for the role.
Overall, the interview process is designed to be comprehensive and fair, allowing candidates to showcase their expertise while enabling both Alternative Path and the client to make informed decisions regarding the fit for this dynamic and impactful position.
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About Alternative Path
About
Alternative Path provides technology, business intelligence, and financial services. We help small to medium sized enterprises establish their presence in India in the technology and finance space.
Our teams' decades of experience in setting up of Centers of Excellence (COE) and smaller teams have helped organizations harness the full potential of skilled and diverse talent in India. Our implementation teams have delivered numerous projects across technology functions such as Software Quality Assurance, Application Development, Technology Infrastructure, Application Support, and Data Management and Analysis and Finance functions such as Fund Accounting, Management Reporting, Investor Reporting, Reconciliation, Treasury Workflow and Deal Management, and Record to Report processes.
As our name, Alternative Path, suggests we were formed to take a different approach, which is rooted deep in a Quality driven delivery process that is missing in typical service engagements large or small.
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Alternative Path provides technology, business intelligence, and financial services to small-medium sized enterprises and help them establish their presence in India. We work with clients globally.
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