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Data Engineer Lead at Fintech Company · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 6 - 8 years · ₹15L - ₹25L / yr · Posted 24 Jan 2022

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Data Engineer Lead

at Fintech Company

Agency job
6 - 8 yrs
₹15L - ₹25L / yr
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
Spark
Hadoop
Big Data
Data engineering
PySpark

Purpose of Job:
We are looking for an exceptionally talented Lead data engineer who has
exposure in implementing AWS services to build data pipelines, api
integration and designing data warehouse. Candidate with both hands-on
and leadership capabilities will be ideal for this position.

 

Job Responsibilities:
• Total 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer and 2+
years of experience in managing a team
• Have minimum 3 years of AWS Cloud experience.
• Well versed in languages such as Python, PySpark, SQL, NodeJS etc
• Has extensive experience in Spark ecosystem and has
worked on both real time and batch processing
• Have experience in AWS Glue, EMR, DMS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Step functions, Airflow, RDS, Aurora etc.
• Experience with modern Database systems such as
Redshift, Presto, Hive etc.
• Worked on building data lakes in the past on S3 or
Apache Hudi • Solid understanding of Data Warehousing Concepts
• Good to have experience on tools such as Kafka or Kinesis
• Good to have AWS Developer Associate or Solutions
Architect Associate Certification
• Have experience in managing a team


Qualifications:
At least a bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Applied
Mathematics. Preferred Masters degree. Other Requirements: Team Management skills, Learning Attitude, Ownership skills

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  • Own and design end-to-end data lake architecture, including data ingestion, staging, curated layers, and data consumption.
  • Lead data engineering pipelines using AWS services, Apache Airflow, Spark/PySpark, and dbt.
  • Manage AWS data services such as S3, EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Lambda, RDS, IAM, and DMS.
  • Design and support API/data-serving solutions using PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL, or similar technologies.
  • Improve pipeline performance, platform reliability, monitoring, and service-level agreements (SLAs).
  • Ensure data security, access control, personally identifiable information (PII) protection, and governance.
  • Mentor data engineers, conduct code reviews, and handle production incidents and root-cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with business and application teams to deliver data and reporting solutions.

Required Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or platform engineering, including technical leadership.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS data services and enterprise data lake architecture.
  • Production experience with Apache Airflow, Spark/PySpark, and SQL.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling and layered data architecture.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL and Hasura GraphQL or a similar API/data-serving layer.
  • Proven experience in technical leadership, production support, and troubleshooting.

Good to Have

  • Experience with dbt and lakehouse table formats.
  • Knowledge of Kafka or streaming data ingestion.
  • Experience with Redshift optimization and workload design.


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