Senior Data Engineer

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JOB ROLE - Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable cloud-native data platforms on AWS. You will build high-performance batch and analytical data pipelines using Spark/PySpark, Apache Iceberg, and AWS services, while ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in data engineering, SQL optimization, distributed data processing, and cloud-native architectures. 

Must have skills:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale AWS data engineering solutions.

• Strong hands-on expertise in SQL (analytical queries, window functions, stored procedures), Spark/PySpark, and Python.

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing Lakehouse solutions using Apache Iceberg.

• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EMR, S3, Athena, Glue Catalog, Aurora PostgreSQL, Lambda, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and IAM.

• Experience building scalable batch and streaming data pipelines on AWS.

• Strong experience in Spark/PySpark performance tuning and optimization.

• Hands-on experience optimizing Apache Iceberg and Aurora PostgreSQL for performance and scalability.

• Strong understanding of data modeling, partitioning, file formats, and Lakehouse/Data Lake architectures.

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for production data pipelines.

• Strong knowledge of data quality, troubleshooting, debugging, and production support.

• Experience with CI/CD, Git, and data engineering best practices.

• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

• AWS Data Engineer Associate or equivalent AWS Certification is preferred.

Good to have skills : 

• Experience with Apache Airflow or AWS Step Functions.

• Experience with Terraform or Infrastructure as Code.

• Exposure to Kafka, Hive, HDFS or other Big Data technologies.

• Hands-on experience using GenAI-assisted development tools such as Kiro, Copilot,Cursor, or similar AI coding assistants to improve engineering productivity. 

• Experience with ClickHouse Database

• Telecom/Mobile Network domain knowledge is preferred.