Sr Data Engineer

Assess client needs and convert business requirements into business intelligence (BI) solutions roadmap relating to complex issues involving long-term or multi-work streams.

Analyze technical issues and questions identifying data needs and delivery mechanisms

Implement data structures using best practices in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, Spark, Scala, SQL, database, and OLAP technologies

Manage overall development cycle, driving best practices and ensuring development of high quality code for common assets and framework components

Develop test-driven solutions and provide technical guidance and heavily contribute to a team of high caliber Data Engineers by developing test-driven solutions and BI Applications that can be deployed quickly and in an automated fashion.

Manage and execute against agile plans and set deadlines based on client, business, and technical requirements

Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build, deployment, and operations

Ensure all code adheres to development & security standards

About you:

4 year degree or equivalent experience

4+ years of software development experience preferably in a data engineering/Hadoop development (Hive, Spark etc)

Hands on Experience in Object Oriented or functional programming such as Scala / Java / Python

Knowledge or experience with a variety of database technologies (Postgres, Cassandra, SQL Server)

Knowledge with design of data integration using API and streaming technologies (Kafka) as well as ETL and other data Integration patterns

Experience with cloud platforms like Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure. Hands on Experience on BigQuery will be an added advantage

Good understanding of distributed storage(HDFS, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3) and processing(Spark, Google Dataproc, Amazon EMR or Databricks)

Experience with CI/CD toolchain (Drone, Jenkins, Vela, Kubernetes) a plus

Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and technologies.

Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

Constant learner and team player who enjoys solving tech challenges with global team.

Hands on experience in building complex data pipelines and flow optimizations

Be able to understand the data, draw insights and make recommendations and be able to identify any data quality issues upfront

Experience with test-driven development and software test automation

Follow best coding practices & engineering guidelines as prescribed

Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences