Data Engineer Support Lead (Azure)

Role & responsibilities

Project management

• To design Solution, overview and manage end to end implementation of Data projects and enhancements.
• Evaluate/Recommend solution architecture.
• Review of project plan to ensure that adequate timeframe is committed for IT activities and to ensure that all aspects of Change Management are covered.
• Understand HDFC Banks operational and business project needs.
• Stakeholder Management
• Understand data requirements projects of various internal department and regulators i.e. RBI, Compliance officers, Operations users.
• Review solution designs and improvise, write down and review test scenario, test plans. 
• Prepare test bed for release deployment and perform testing as per test plan and strategy
• Maintaining and tracking defect tracker sheet
• Understanding the Source system Field Mapping for CDC ingestion and downstream pipeline.
• Use analytical tools to prepare sample reports/dashboard of requirements and take sign off.

Performance and Support Management

• Review of volume estimations for new solutions, basis which infra requirements and performance tests to be planned and executed.
• Conduct periodic application projects review.
• Conduct application performance reviews with Vendor
• Identify potential system performance bottlenecks, get system architecture reviewed and change wherever required to resolve the performance bottlenecks. 
• Build sufficient scalability in the applications to cater to high seasonal demands 

Progress Reporting

• Periodic presentation to Senior Management
• Contribute to improvements & enhance efficiency of processes for effectiveness.
• Prepare project MIS to track, report and monitor the project schedule.
• Application Obsolescence Management 

Change release management & Audit Compliance

• Follow the Change and Release Management processes defined for the projects and tasks initiated as part of Project Management, Performance Management and Application Obsolescence Management
• Compliance to Bank IT governance policy and processes
• Ensure compliance for all the processes of project implementation within the team.

Keyskills:

• Knowledge & practices of SDLC process and agile methodologies
• Excellent knowledge of on premise & cloud technologies (Azure preferred ).
• Excellent knowledge of working with Azure Cloud Technologies : ADLS Gen 2, Databricks, Events hub, Azure ADF, Azure function , Azure Logic Apps and DB repositories, Synapse, Delta Tables
• Experience working with relational databases Oracle , MSSQL , Db2 , Netezza etc.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases PostgreSQL, Mongo DB etc
• Experience working with scripting
• Excellent experience in data ingestion/message queue technologies - Golden gate , Kafka , Solace etc.
• Experience working with servers and OS - Unix , Linux , AIX etc.
• Experience working with scheduling tools – Autosys, Azure Monitor etc.
• Experience working with project management, collaboration tools – MPP , MS Share point, MS Teams
• Experience working with Incident Management, Defect Management Tools – Service Now , JIRA etc.
• Exposure to application support / architectural concepts/design across diverse technology platforms