Senior Data Engineer

2 - 6 years

4 - 8 Lacs

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  • Design, implement, test and maintain scalable and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and transform large datasets from diverse sources.
  • Architect, build, test and optimize data warehouses and data lakes, focusing on data consistency, performance, and best practices for analytics.
  • Implement data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security. Contribute to data governance initiatives.
  • Continuously monitor and enhance database and query performance, identifying opportunities to streamline and improve data retrieval times.
  • Define and design frameworks for monitoring data quality and data pipelines
  • Monitor Google BigQuery consumption.
  • Evaluate, select, and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance data capabilities. Automate manual processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
  • Mentor junior engineers, sharing best practices in data engineering and analysis, and helping to build a culture of technical excellence within the team.
  • Proactively lead streams of data engineering work, collaborating with stakeholders and other non-engineering roles to come up with creative solut ions to the problems your team is presented with.
  • Work with both data producers and consumers to optimise existing data products and the data within them to meet evolving business needs.
  • Work collaboratively with other engineers, u sing t echniques like pair and ensemble programming, to foster collective ownership and help upskill, reskill and learn from other team members.
  • Help guide technology choices, adopting company-standard tech stacks by default while responsibly investig ating alternative tools and services and looking for opportunities to innovate.
Skills & experience:
Technologies you will be working with:
  • SQL, Python, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Google BigQuery
  • Data pipeline tools such as Apache Airflow and DBT
  • Data modeling concepts, including dimensional and star schema design
  • Data visualization tools like Looker
Essential:
  • Several years of experience in D ata / Software eng ineering on a cloud platform.
  • An understanding of data and distributed systems concepts.
  • Several years of experience working with data from large ERP systems.
  • Knowledge of data quality concepts and experienc e using too ls to identify data quality problems and come up w ith strategies to tackle them.
  • Experience working with iterative software development principles:
  • Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Automated testing at different levels
  • Collaborative development techniques like pair and ensemble programming
  • Experience owning software systems and/or data pipelines end-to-end, having full responsibility for operating them in production a nd responding to problems that arise.
  • The ability to work with stakeholders and other non-technical roles to translate business requirements into technical work , and conversely to articulate necessary technical work to the same people for prioritisation.
  • High competence in SQL and deep experience of at least one programming language e.g. Python, Java
Desirable:
  • Experience with decentralised Data Mesh and Data Product architecture principles.
  • Experience building and testing data pipelines with DBT
  • Understanding and experience of User-Centric Design principles
What you will be doing:
1 month:
  • Actively contributing to the codebase in collaboration with other engineers and deploying changes into production
  • Familiarising yourself with our tech stack and processes
  • Starting to understand the data landscape in and around your team
  • Getting to know the various stakeholders and their general requirements
  • Collaborating effectively with each discipline on the team
  • Participating in technical discussions and sharing ideas
3 months:
  • Gaining an understanding of the team s context within the wider organisation
  • Leading a stream of work, working with both engineers and stakeholders
  • Triaging support queries and diagnosing issues in live data pipelines
  • Setting the technical direction of the work done by the team
  • Holding discussions w ithin the engine ering team in order to improve product architecture and code quality
  • Ensuring that data is stored securely and in compliance with GDPR
6 months:
  • Take ownership of key projects and drive initiatives to enhance data capabilities .
  • Switching context between multiple streams of work, providing guidance to both developers and stakeholders
  • Fostering a culture of continuous feedback, giving and rece iving constructive feedback within your team , and proactively improving ways of working
  • Mentoring others in the principles of data engineering and best practices and looking for opportunities to help other engineers on the team grow
  • Arbitrating disagreements within the team and not avoiding difficult conversations
  • Gauging the complexity and scope of a piece of work, breaking it into smaller pieces when appropriate with a focus on iteratively delivering value to end users

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