Senior Data Engineer
Tek Ninjas
Job Description
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with 10 years of experience in designing developing and maintaining scalable data platforms and enterprise-grade data pipelines. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in big data technologies cloud platforms distributed processing systems and modern data engineering practices.
As a Senior Data Engineer you will be responsible for building robust ETL/ELT frameworks optimizing large-scale data workflows enabling real-time and batch processing and supporting analytics and AI-driven initiatives across the organization.
You will collaborate with Data Architects Data Scientists Analysts Product Teams and DevOps teams to deliver scalable reliable and secure data solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data
- Build and maintain enterprise data lakes data warehouses and lakehouse architectures
- Develop high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems
- Optimize Spark jobs SQL queries and cloud infrastructure performance
- Implement data quality monitoring observability and governance solutions
- Integrate data from multiple internal and external sources
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business and analytics requirements
- Ensure platform scalability reliability security and fault tolerance
- Lead technical discussions code reviews and mentoring of junior engineers
- Support CI/CD automation and DevOps best practices
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technology evaluations
Required Skills
- Strong expertise in Python and SQL
- Hands-on experience with Apache Spark / PySpark
- Experience with Apache Kafka or streaming technologies
- Strong understanding of data modeling and database design
- Experience with ETL/ELT frameworks and orchestration tools
- Expertise in GCP Snowflake Airflow Hadoop ecosystem
- Knowledge of distributed systems and scalable architectures
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Delta Lake Apache Iceberg or Hudi
- Exposure to real-time analytics and event-driven architecture
- Docker and Kubernetes experience
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM data pipelines
- Knowledge of data governance and observability tool
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Technology or related field
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