Job Mandate
As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining end-to-end data solutions in the Enterprise Data Platform. You will be responsible for building scalable, efficient, reliable, and reusable data pipelines and analytic applications and your expertise will be leveraged in both backend and frontend development. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, architect data solutions, and implement best practices for data engineering and analytics.
Duties and Responsibilities
Data Design, Ingestion, Integration, and Processing
- Design, develop, and implement data solutions including data ingestion pipelines to acquire data from various source systems, storage processing, and visualization as needed, leveraging Azure Data Platforms and Databricks.
- Design and define data models, schemas, and structures to support analytical and reporting needs, ensuring scalability, performance, and data integrity.
- Configure and manage data storage solutions to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms for performance, cost efficiency, and compliance with data governance standards and regulations.
- Designing and implementing data integration/ingestion/transformation/migration/extraction which includes effectively mapping and converting data from source systems to target systems, ensuring precision and uniformity of data migration and integration.
- Design, upgrade, and implement new data workflows, automation, tools, and API integrations.
Implementation Expectations
- Perform unit and integration testing. Provide support in UAT, user training, pre-implementation and post-implementation support activities.
- Provide support/executive analysis needs including ad-hoc reporting analysis, dashboard creation, design of data models, etc.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to support their data needs and to ensure that data is properly integrated and aligned with business requirements.
- Create technical documents such as solution design, program specifications, and other required documentation in the SDLC process.
DevOps and Automation
- Implement DevOps practices and automation workflows to streamline the development, deployment, and monitoring of data pipelines and applications.
- Collaborate with DevOps team to define CI/CD pipelines, automate testing, and ensure reliability and scalability of data solutions.
Performance Optimization and Tuning
- Monitor and optimize the performance of data pipelines and analytics applications, identifying bottlenecks, optimizing query performance, and tuning Spark jobs for efficiency.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Education
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience as data engineer, software engineer with a focus on data engineering and analytics
- Problem Solving: Ability to think critically, analyze, and solve complex problems effectively.
- Teamwork: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with an aptitude for working in cross-functional teams.
- Adaptability: Agile in adapting to change and learning new technologies.
- Attention to Detail: High level of precision in coding, debugging, and documentation.
Work Experience
Skills
Technical Skills
- Experience in creating data pipelines and developing complex and optimized queries.
- Having at least 2 years experience in Databricks and Microsoft Azure Data Platform.
- Experience in SQL, Python, Shell, Scala as well as experience with data manipulation processing using Apache Spark and Databricks.
- Strong understanding of data architecture principles, data modeling techniques, and data integration patterns, with experience in designing scalable and efficient data pipelines.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps is a strong advantage.
- Familiarity with data visualization and reporting tools such as PowerBI is a strong advantage.
Behavioral Skills
- Problem Solving: Ability to think critically, analyze, and solve complex problems effectively.
- Teamwork: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with an aptitude for working in cross-functional teams.
- Adaptability: Agile in adapting to change and learning new technologies.
- Attention to Detail: High level of precision in coding, debugging, and documentation.