Principal Data Engineer

Position name: Principal Data Engineer

Experience: 10 -14 years

Location - Gurugram/Chennai/Jaipur/Pune/Bhopal/Bangalore

Summary of JD: AWS, Spark, Pyspark, Python, SQL, AWS, Data Warehouse design and development, Databricks and dbt, architecting and implementing workflow management systems, Airflow, Spark applications, CI/CD processes, experience with GitHub Actions

About the team: As a Principal Data Engineer in the Data Warehouse team you will be relied on to lead a team of Sr. Data Engineers, propose Architecture, solve complex situations and data model, interact directly with client for requirement gathering, build a holistic roadmap, identify risks and have mitigation strategy, develop and deliver high-quality features and finish tasks to a high standard. You’ll be part of an emerging team, focussing on building and improving our innovative Data Warehouse offerings applying marketing suites.

What we are looking for

For this position the ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms with a focus on backend and data engineering.

Level of skills and experience:

● Overall 10 + years of experience in data engineering with 4+ years leading team

● 8+ years of hands-on experience in using Python, JVM and Shell Scripting with production experience.

● 5+ years of proven experience on building cloud native data intensive applications, Amazon Web Service experience is a must and good to have experience in GCP.

● Experience on Data Warehouse design and development per the business nature using any of the modern data warehouses.

● Having experience in Databricks and dbt experience is required.

● Highly proficient in architecting and implementing workflow management systems, Airflow is a must.

● Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

● Hands-on experience of building and maintaining Spark applications.

● Fundamental understanding of Parquet, Delta Lake and other OTFs file formats.

● Proficiency on an IaC tool such as Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation is a must.

● Experience with observability systems (such as Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana)

● Strong experience on building CI/CD processes, experience with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or Jenkins is good to have.

● Experience with unit testing and test automation frameworks.

● propose and review Architecture

● solve complex situations and data model

Soft skills:

● Lead a team of 4-5 Senior Engineers

● client communication and Requirement gathering

● interact directly with client for requirement gathering

● build a holistic roadmap

● identify risks and have mitigation strategy

● Comfortable providing, receiving constructive feedback, particularly while participating in code reviews and ability to not only code, but also provide good quality readable business documentation.

● Focus on business value vs engineering interest and focus on business value vs engineering interest.

● Pro-active / service-oriented towards our internal customers