Data Engineer (DevOps)

• Bachelor qualification in a computer science or STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) related field.
• At least 8+ years of strong data warehousing experience using RDBMS and Non-RDBMS databases.
• At least 5 years of recent hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as a data engineer (back-end software engineer considered).
• Professional experience working in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment is required.
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS) is highly preferred.
• Understanding of data streaming and scalable data processing is preferred to have.
• Experience with large scale datasets, data lake and data warehouse technologies such as AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake. Snowflake is highly preferred.
• Atleast 2+ years of experience in ETL (AWS Glue), Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Lambda, Apache Airflows, Amazon Step Functions.
• Strong knowledge in scripting languages like Python, UNIX shell and Spark is required.
• Understanding of RDBMS, Data ingestions, Data flows, Data Integrations etc.
• Understanding of TCP/IP network protocols including TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc.
• Understanding of AWS VPC networking and IAM access control policy.
• Technical expertise with data models, data mining and segmentation techniques.
• Experience with full SDLC lifecycle and Lean or Agile development methodologies.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and GIT Deployments.
• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment.
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions to diverse teams namely, technical, business and management teams.

Requirements

• Work with stakeholders to understand needs for data structure, availability, scalability, and accessibility.
• Develop tools to improve data flows between internal/external systems and the data lake/warehouse.
• Build robust and reproducible data ingest pipelines to collect, clean, harmonize, merge, and consolidate data sources.
• Understanding existing data applications and infrastructure architecture
• Build and support new data feeds for various Data Management layers and Data Lakes
• Evaluate business needs and requirements
• Support migration of existing data transformation jobs in Oracle, and MS-SQL to Snowflake.
• Lead the migration of the existing data transformation jobs in Oracle, Hive, Impala etc. into Spark, Python on Glue etc.
• Able to document the processes and steps.
• Develop and maintain datasets.
• Improve data quality and efficiency.
• Lead Business requirements and deliver accordingly.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Architect and Team on several Data Analytics projects.
• Collaborate with DevOps Engineer to improve system deployment and monitoring process.
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment and coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a geographically distributed team.
• Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs.
• Ability to work within a diverse and inclusive team.
• Technically curious, self-motivated, versatile and solution oriented.