Lead - Data Engineer

Role & responsibilities

3 to 4+ years of hands-on experience in SQL database design, data architecture, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Mart, Data Lake, Big Data, Cloud and Data Governance domains. • Take ownership of the technical aspects of implementing data pipeline & migration requirements, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building applications around business stakeholder needs. • Interface directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and own the automated end-to-end data engineering solutions. • Implement data pipelines to automate the ingestion, transformation, and augmentation of both structured, unstructured, real-time data, and provide best practices for pipeline operations • Troubleshoot and remediate data quality issues raised by pipeline alerts or downstream consumers. Implement Data Governance best practices. • Create and maintain clear documentation on data models/schemas as well as transformation/validation rules. • Implement tools that help data consumers to extract, analyze, and visualize data faster through data pipelines. • Implement data security, privacy, and compliance protocols to ensure safe data handling in line with regulatory requirements. • Optimize data workflows and queries to ensure low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency. • Leading the entire software lifecycle including hands-on development, code reviews, testing, deployment, and documentation for batch ETL's. • Work directly with our internal product/technical teams to ensure that our technology infrastructure is seamlessly and effectively integrated • Migrate current data applications & pipelines to Cloud leveraging technologies in future

Preferred candidate profile

• Graduate with Engineering Degree (CS/Electronics/IT) / MCA / MCS or equivalent with substantial data engineering experience. • 3+ years of recent hands-on experience with a modern programming language (Scala, Python, Java) is required; Spark/ Pyspark is preferred. • Experience with configuration management and version control apps (ie: Git) and experience working within a CI/CD framework is a plus. • 3+ years of recent hands-on SQL programming experience in a Big Data environment is required. • Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, RDBMS, NoSQL and columnar databases. • Experience developing and maintaining ETL applications and data pipelines using big data technologies is required; Apache Kafka, Spark, Airflow experience is a must. • Knowledge of API and microservice integration with applications. • Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes). • Experience building data solutions for Power BI and Web visualization applications. • Experience with Cloud is a plus. • Experience in managing multiple projects and stakeholders with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Ability to develop and organize high-quality documentation. • Superior analytical skills and a strong sense of ownership in your work. • Collaborate with data scientists on several projects. Contribute to development and support of analytics including AI/ML. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously. • Prior Energy & Utilities industry experience is a big plus. Experience (Min. Max. in yrs.): 3+ years of core/relevant experience Location: Mumbai (Onsite)