Associate Technical Lead - Data Engineering
The Big Picture
Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.
Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide, and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion.
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations. Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of “Connecting the world to share food and care for one another”, and our work directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry.
For more information visit: www.syscolabs.lk
We are currently on the lookout for an Associate Technical Lead - Data Engineering - to join our team.
What you will be responsible for:
- The design and development of Business Intelligence solutions for one of the world’s largest corporations involved in the marketing and distribution of food products.
- Design, develop, optimize and maintain Fabric/Power BI semantic models and Reports.
- Maintain Financial Data warehouses.
- Perform data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
- Ensure high code quality by following software engineering best practices.
- Work collaboratively in a cross functional team in an Agile delivery environment.
- Adhere to DevOps principles and be involved in projects throughout their full software lifecycle: from development, QA, and deployment, to post-production support.
What you need to have to apply for this position:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 4+ years of experience in developing enterprise grade data processing applications.
- A strong programming background in Data ops and Business intelligence (Python, Shell, SQL).
- Strong experience in code management and CICD tools such as GitHub, Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
- Hands on experience in building semantic models in Power BI and writing DAX.
- Experience in processing large volumes of data.
- Hands on experience in ETL design and development using ETL tools (Preferably Apache Airflow, SSIS, Spark, Informatica and Lambda).
- Hands on experience in working with relational/NoSQL databases and distributed storage engines (S3, Redshift, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server DB).
- Hands on experience in Basic Linux administration.
- Hands on experience in DB administration.
- Recognized accounting/finance certification and knowledge will be an added advantage.
- Experience in working with financial data (using tools such as SSAS, Excel-Pivots, Power BI).
- Experience in API development and user interfaces and related tools (C#, DotNet MVC) will be an added advantage.
- Working in a Scrum Agile delivery environment and DevOps practices.
- Experience in an agile environment and aligning Pod members on technical vision and path to implementation.
- A strong desire to continue to grow your skillset.
- Strong communication skills that are influential and convincing.
Benefits:
- US dollar-linked compensation
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Paid birthday leave
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
- Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
- Hybrid work arrangement
Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
