Senior Data Engineer

About UpSolve

Work on cutting-edge tech stack. Build innovative solutions. Computer Vision, NLP, Video Analytics and IOT.

Job Role

• Ideate use cases to include recent tech releases.
• Discuss business plans and assist teams in aligning with dynamic KPIs.
• Design solution architecture from input to infrastructure and services used to data store.

Job Requirements

• Working knowledge about Azure Cognitive Services.
• Project Experience in building AI solutions like Chatbots, sentiment analysis, Image Classification, etc.
• Quick Learner and Problem Solver.

Job Qualifications

• Work Experience: 2 years +
• Education: Computer Science/IT Engineer
• Location: Mumbai

Lead Data Engineer

Data Engineers develop modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions. You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems. On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product. It could also be a software delivery project where you're equally happy coding and tech-leading the team to implement the solution.

Job responsibilities

·      You might spend a few weeks with a new client on a deep technical review or a complete organizational review, helping them to understand the potential that data brings to solve their most pressing problems

·      You will partner with teammates to create complex data processing pipelines in order to solve our clients' most ambitious challenges

·      You will collaborate with Data Scientists in order to design scalable implementations of their models

·      You will pair to write clean and iterative code based on TDD

·      Leverage various continuous delivery practices to deploy, support and operate data pipelines

·      Advise and educate clients on how to use different distributed storage and computing technologies from the plethora of options available

·      Develop and operate modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions

·      Create data models and speak to the tradeoffs of different modeling approaches

·      On other projects, you might be acting as the architect, leading the design of technical solutions, or perhaps overseeing a program inception to build a new product

·      Seamlessly incorporate data quality into your day-to-day work as well as into the delivery process

·      Assure effective collaboration between Thoughtworks' and the client's teams, encouraging open communication and advocating for shared outcomes

Job qualifications Technical skills

·      You are equally happy coding and leading a team to implement a solution

·      You have a track record of innovation and expertise in Data Engineering

·      You're passionate about craftsmanship and have applied your expertise across a range of industries and organizations

·      You have a deep understanding of data modelling and experience with data engineering tools and platforms such as Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop

·      You have built large-scale data pipelines and data-centric applications using any of the distributed storage platforms such as HDFS, S3, NoSQL databases (Hbase, Cassandra, etc.) and any of the distributed processing platforms like Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Oozie, and Airflow in a production setting

·      Hands on experience in MapR, Cloudera, Hortonworks and/or cloud (AWS EMR, Azure HDInsights, Qubole etc.) based Hadoop distributions

·      You are comfortable taking data-driven approaches and applying data security strategy to solve business problems

·      You're genuinely excited about data infrastructure and operations with a familiarity working in cloud environments

·      Working with data excites you: you have created Big data architecture, you can build and operate data pipelines, and maintain data storage, all within distributed systems

Professional skills

·      Advocate your data engineering expertise to the broader tech community outside of Thoughtworks, speaking at conferences and acting as a mentor for more junior-level data engineers

·      You're resilient and flexible in ambiguous situations and enjoy solving problems from technical and business perspectives

·      An interest in coaching others, sharing your experience and knowledge with teammates

·      You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed

Roles and Responsibilities

• Managing available resources such as hardware, data, and personnel so that deadlines are met.
• Analyzing the ML and Deep Learning algorithms that could be used to solve a given problem and ranking them by their success probabilities
• Exploring data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world
• Defining validation framework and establish a process to ensure acceptable data quality criteria are met
• Supervising the data acquisition and partnership roadmaps to create stronger product for our customers.
• Defining feature engineering process to ensure usage of meaningful features given the business constraints which may vary by market
• Device self-learning strategies through analysis of errors from the models
• Understand business issues and context, devise a framework for solving unstructured problems and articulate clear and actionable solutions underpinned by analytics.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while demonstrating business leadership to collaborate & coordinate with different functions to deliver the solutions in a timely, efficient and effective manner.
• Manage project resources optimally to deliver projects on time; drive innovation using residual resources to create strong solution pipeline; provide direction, coaching & training, feedbacks to project team members to enhance performance, support development and encourage value aligned behaviour of the project team members; Provide inputs for periodic performance appraisal of project team members.

Preferred Technical & Professional expertise

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Statistics / economics or other quantitative fields
• At least 2+ years of experience of managing Data Science projects with specializations in Machine Learning
• In-depth knowledge of cloud analytics tools.
• Able to drive Python Code optimization; ability review codes and provide inputs to improve the quality of codes
• Ability to evaluate hardware selection for running ML models for optimal performance
• Up to date with Python libraries and versions for machine learning; Extensive hands-on experience with Regressors; Experience working with data pipelines.
• Deep knowledge of math, probability, statistics and algorithms; Working knowledge of Supervised Learning, Adversarial Learning and Unsupervised learning
• Deep analytical thinking with excellent problem-solving abilities
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a proven ability to work with all levels of management; effective interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage a project team through effectively allocation of tasks, anticipating risks and setting realistic timelines for managing the expectations of key stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills and an ability to balance and handle multiple concurrent tasks and/or issues simultaneously.
• Ensure that the project team understand and abide by compliance framework for policies, data, systems etc. as per group, region and local standards

We are actively seeking a Senior Data Engineer experienced in building data pipelines and integrations from 3rd party data sources by writing custom automated ETL jobs using Python. The role will work in partnership with other members of the Business Analytics team to support the development and implementation of new and existing data warehouse solutions for our clients. This includes designing database import/export processes used to generate client data warehouse deliverables.

• 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, Athena
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as familiarity with unstructured datasets.
• Deep problem-solving skills to perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

What's the role?

Your role as a Principal Engineer will involve working with various team. As a principal engineer, will need full knowledge of the software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies. You will demonstrate multi-tasking skills under tight deadlines and constraints. You will regularly contribute to the development of work products (including analyzing, designing, programming, debugging, and documenting software) and may work with customers to resolve challenges and respond to suggestions for improvements and enhancements. You will setup the standard and principal for the product he/she drives.

• Setup coding practice, guidelines & quality of the software delivered.
• Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.
• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle. Who are you? You are a go-getter, with an eye for detail, strong problem-solving and debugging skills, and having a degree in BE/MCA/M.E./ M Tech degree or equivalent degree from reputed college/university.

Essential Skills / Experience:

• 10+ years of engineering experience
• Experience in designing and developing high volume web-services using API protocols and data formats
• Proficient in API modelling languages and annotation
• Proficient in Java programming
• Experience with Scala programming
• Experience with ETL systems
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with Cloud service & storage
• Proficient in Unix/Linux operating systems
• Excellent oral and written communication skills Preferred:
• Functional programming languages (Scala, etc)
• Scripting languages (bash, Perl, Python, etc)
• Amazon Web Services (Redshift, ECS etc)

We are looking for a data scientist that will help us to discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our products. 

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance

• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Linear regression, SVM, Decision Forests, LSTM, CNN etc.
• Experience with Deep Learning preferred.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, NumPy, MatLab, etc. Excellence in at least one of these is highly desirable
• Great communication skills
• Proficiency in using query languages such as SQL, Hive, Pig 
• Good applied statistics skills, such as statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Good scripting and programming skills 
• Data-oriented personality