Role Sr Lead Data Engineer Apache Spark Spark Core Spark SQL Spark Streaming Data Bricks
Location: Hybrid (Seattle WA)
Job description
This position contributes to our success by building enterprise data services for analytic solutions. This position is responsible for design development testing and support for data pipelines to enable continuous data processing for data exploration data preparation and realtime business analytics. Models and acts in accordance with our guiding principles.
Tops 3 Skills Needed
1 | Data Engineering | 5 years |
2 | Data Bricks | 5 years |
3 | Sparks/ Dev ops practices | 5 years |
Years of Experience:
Technology requirements:
- Proficiency in Apache Spark including Spark Core Spark SQL and Spark Streaming.
- Proficiency in languages such as Python for data processing and scripting.
Basic Qualifications/ Experience:
- Experience in designing and implementing ETL processes using Databricks notebooks for efficient data extraction transformation and loading.
- Indepth knowledge of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform and its features for collaborative big data analytics.
- Understanding of data modeling concepts for designing database structures.
- Proficiency in working with both relational databases and NoSQL databases.
- Integration of data from diverse sources including APIs databases streaming data and external data feeds.
- Implementation of processes to ensure data quality including data validation cleansing and error handling.
- Knowledge of cluster management optimization and scaling for efficient data processing.
- Optimization of Spark jobs and Databricks clusters for better performance.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms such as Azure for building scalable and flexible data architectures.
- Use of tools like Apache Airflow ADF or Databricks to orchestrate and schedule data workflows.
Degree or certifications required:
- Education (minimum education level degree or certification necessary): Bachelors degree in computer science management information systems or related discipline
Skills (minimum skills required):
- 57 years Architect and design large scale high performance distributed systems
- 57 years SQL Platform
- 2 years Exposure NoSQL Platform is a plus
- 5 years Hadoop YARN MapReduce Pig or Hive Spark
- 2 years Data platform implementation on Azure or AWS is a plus
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
- Demonstrate deep knowledge and ability to lead others in the data engineering team to build and support noninteractive (batch distributed) & realtime highly available data data pipeline and technology capabilities
- Translate strategic requirements into business requirements to ensure solutions meet business needs
- Work with infrastructure provisioning & configuration tools to develop scripts to automate deployment of physical and virtual environments; to develop tools to monitor usage of virtual resources
- Assist in the definition of architecture that ensure that solutions are built within a consistent framework
- Lead resolution activities for complex data issues
- Define & implement data retention policies and procedures
- Define & implement data governance policies and procedures
- Identify improvements in team coding standards and help in implementation of the improvements
- Leverage subject matter expertise to coordinate issue resolution efforts across peer support groups technical support teams and vendors
- Develop and maintain documentation relating to all assigned systems and projects
- Perform systems and applications performance characterization and tradeoff studies through analysis and simulation
- Perform root cause analysis to identify permanent resolutions to software or business process issues
- Lead by example by demonstrating the Client mission and value
NicetoHaves:
- Knowledge of data security best practices and the implementation of measures to ensure data privacy and compliance.
- Implementation of monitoring and logging solutions to track the health and performance of pipelines.
- Familiarity with monitoring platforms like DataDog and New Relic
- Azure