Data Engineer

Role: Principal Software Engineer

We looking for a passionate Principle Engineer - Analytics to build data products that extract valuable business insights for efficiency and customer experience. This role will require managing, processing and analyzing large amounts of raw information and in scalable databases. This will also involve developing unique data structures and writing algorithms for the entirely new set of products. The candidate will be required to have critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The candidates must be experienced with software development with advanced algorithms and must be able to handle large volume of data. Exposure with statistics and machine learning algorithms is a big plus. The candidate should have some exposure to cloud environment, continuous integration and agile scrum processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects both as a principal investigator and project manager, responsible for meeting project requirements on schedule

• Software Development that creates data driven intelligence in the products which deals with Big Data backends

• Exploratory analysis of the data to be able to come up with efficient data structures and algorithms for given requirements

• The system may or may not involve machine learning models and pipelines but will require advanced algorithm development

• Managing, data in large scale data stores (such as NoSQL DBs, time series DBs, Geospatial DBs etc.)

• Creating metrics and evaluation of algorithm for better accuracy and recall

• Ensuring efficient access and usage of data through the means of indexing, clustering etc.

• Collaborate with engineering and product development teams.

Requirements:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in one of these domains - Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or related field from top-tier school

• OR Master’s degree or higher in Statistics, Mathematics, with hands on background in software development.

• Experience of 8 to 10 year with product development, having done algorithmic work

• 5+ years of experience working with large data sets or do large scale quantitative analysis

• Understanding of SaaS based products and services.

• Strong algorithmic problem-solving skills

• Able to mentor and manage team and take responsibilities of team deadline.

Skill set required:

• In depth Knowledge Python programming languages

• Understanding of software architecture and software design

• Must have fully managed a project with a team

• Having worked with Agile project management practices

• Experience with data processing analytics and visualization tools in Python (such as pandas, matplotlib, Scipy, etc.)

• Strong understanding of SQL and querying to NoSQL database (eg. Mongo, Casandra, Redis

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and manage cloud resources in AWS 
• Data ingestion from different data sources which exposes data using different technologies, such as: RDBMS, REST HTTP API, flat files, Streams, and Time series data based on various proprietary systems. Implement data ingestion and processing with the help of Big Data technologies 
• Data processing/transformation using various technologies such as Spark and Cloud Services. You will need to understand your part of business logic and implement it using the language supported by the base data platform 
• Develop automated data quality check to make sure right data enters the platform and verifying the results of the calculations 
• Develop an infrastructure to collect, transform, combine and publish/distribute customer data.
• Define process improvement opportunities to optimize data collection, insights and displays.
• Ensure data and results are accessible, scalable, efficient, accurate, complete and flexible 
• Identify and interpret trends and patterns from complex data sets 
• Construct a framework utilizing data visualization tools and techniques to present consolidated analytical and actionable results to relevant stakeholders. 
• Key participant in regular Scrum ceremonies with the agile teams  
• Proficient at developing queries, writing reports and presenting findings 
• Mentor junior members and bring best industry practices 

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7+ years’ experience as data engineer in consumer finance or equivalent industry (consumer loans, collections, servicing, optional product, and insurance sales) 
• Strong background in math, statistics, computer science, data science or related discipline
• Advanced knowledge one of language: Java, Scala, Python, C# 
• Production experience with: HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Oozie / Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker / Kubernetes, Snowflake  
• Proficient with
• Data mining/programming tools (e.g. SAS, SQL, R, Python)
• Database technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake. and Greenplum)
• Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Looker, MicroStrategy)
• Comfortable learning about and deploying new technologies and tools. 
• Organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and meet established deadlines. 
• Good written and oral communication skills and ability to present results to non-technical audiences 
• Knowledge of business intelligence and analytical tools, technologies and techniques.

Mandatory Requirements 

• Experience in AWS Glue
• Experience in Apache Parquet 
• Proficient in AWS S3 and data lake 
• Knowledge of Snowflake
• Understanding of file-based ingestion best practices.
• Scripting language - Python & pyspark

• The incumbent should have hands on experience in data engineering and GCP data technologies.

• Should Work with client teams to design and implement modern, scalable data solutions using a range of new and emerging technologies from the Google Cloud Platform.

• Should Work with Agile and DevOps techniques and implementation approaches in the delivery.

• Showcase your GCP Data engineering experience when communicating with clients on their requirements, turning these into technical data solutions.

• Build and deliver Data solutions using GCP products and offerings.
• Have hands on Experience on Python 
Experience on SQL or MySQL. Experience on Looker is an added advantage.

Required skill

• Around 6- 8.5 years of experience and around 4+ years in AI / Machine learning space
• Extensive experience in designing large scale machine learning solution for the ML use case,  large scale deployments and establishing continues automated improvement / retraining framework.
• Strong experience in Python and Java is required.
• Hands on experience on Scikit-learn, Pandas, NLTK
• Experience in Handling of Timeseries data and associated techniques like Prophet, LSTM
• Experience in Regression, Clustering, classification algorithms
• Extensive experience in buildings traditional Machine Learning SVM, XGBoost, Decision tree and Deep Neural Network models like RNN, Feedforward is required.
• Experience in AutoML like TPOT or other
• Must have strong hands on experience in Deep learning frameworks like Keras, TensorFlow or PyTorch 
• Knowledge of Capsule Network or reinforcement learning, SageMaker is a desirable skill
• Understanding of Financial domain is desirable skill

 Responsibilities 

• Design and implementation of solutions for ML Use cases
• Productionize System and Maintain those
• Lead and implement data acquisition process for ML work
• Learn new methods and model quickly and utilize those in solving use cases