Data Engineer Senior Software Engineer

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Job Title: Data Engineer
Position: Software Engineer
Experience: 4-6 Years
Category: Software Engineering
Shift: 6.30PM to 3.30AM shift
Work Mode: 5 days work from office
Primary Location: Chennai
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Role Overview :

We are looking for experienced Data Engineers with strong hands on experience in designing developing and enhancing modern data engineering solutions. The role will involve working with cloud data platforms data pipelines data integration data transformation and analytics solutions.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Snowflake Databricks and AWS data services along with good SQL and data engineering fundamentals.
The role will primarily focus on development and enhancement activities with some involvement in deployment monitoring and production support as part of the overall application lifecycle.

46 Years

. Strong hands on experience in data engineering and ETL/ELT development.
. Good experience with Snowflake Databricks and/or AWS data services.
. Strong SQL and data transformation skills.
. Exposure to cloud based data platforms and data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities :

. Design develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and data engineering solutions.
. Develop data ingestion transformation and processing workflows using cloud based technologies.
. Work with Snowflake and Databricks to build and optimize data processing and analytical solutions.
. Develop and maintain data pipelines using AWS Glue S3 and Lambda.
. Implement data transformation cleansing validation and integration processes.
. Develop efficient SQL queries and optimize data processing and warehouse workloads.
. Work with business and technical teams to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
. Participate in solution design development testing and deployment activities.
. Develop reusable components and follow established data engineering and coding standards.
. Troubleshoot data pipeline and application issues and implement appropriate fixes.
. Participate in code reviews technical discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.
. Support deployment and release activities across environments.
. Monitor data pipelines and proactively identify issues affecting data processing or availability.
. Provide support for production issues when required including troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
. Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.

Key Mandatory Skills :

Data Engineering

. Strong understanding of data engineering concepts ETL/ELT and data pipelines.
. Hands on experience with Snowflake and/or Databricks.
. Experience building data pipelines and data transformation workflows.
. Strong SQL skills.
. Good understanding of data modelling and data warehousing concepts.

AWS
Hands on experience with one or more of the following:

. AWS Glue
. Amazon S3
. AWS Lambda

Experience with additional AWS data services will be an advantage.
Databricks

. Databricks data engineering
. Data transformation and processing
. Delta Lake
. PySpark and/or Spark
. Notebook based development

Snowflake

. Snowflake development
. Data loading and transformation
. SQL development
. Data warehouse concepts
. Performance optimization

Preferred / Optional Skills
The following skills are not mandatory but candidates with experience in these areas will be preferred:

. ODI (Oracle Data Integrator)
. OAC (Oracle Analytics Cloud)
. PL/SQL
. Amazon MSK / Kafka
. Datadog
. Python
. PySpark
. CI/CD and DevOps practices
. Git
. Cloud monitoring and logging
. Experience with Oracle databases

Education Qualification :

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related discipline.

Key Competencies :

. Strong data engineering and analytical skills
. Good understanding of cloud data platforms
. Strong SQL and data transformation capabilities
. Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
. Good communication and collaboration skills
. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
. Strong focus on data quality and solution reliability
. Ability to learn and work across new technologies and platforms

#LI-SS65

• AWS Glue
• Cloud Data Platform Design
• Data Engineering
• Data Engineering
• Databricks
• English
• Oracle ODI (Data Integration)
• Python
• Snowflake
• SQL

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