Data Engineer

About the role

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong experience in modern data platforms and cloud-based architectures. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Snowflake or Databricks, has built scalable data pipelines, and is proficient in Azure cloud services.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.

- Develop and optimize data lake and data warehouse solutions using Snowflake and/or Databricks.

- Implement data ingestion, transformation, and processing frameworks for structured and unstructured datasets.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams (Data Analytics, Data Science, Product, Engineering) to support data consumption needs.

- Build reusable and modular data pipeline components aligned with best practices.

- Implement data quality validation, reconciliation, and monitoring controls.

- Optimize performance for data storage, compute, and query execution.

- Ensure adherence to data governance, security standards, and compliance requirements.

- Participate in solution architecture discussions and contribute to technical design decisions.

Required Skills & Experience

- 7–8+ years of hands-on experience as a Data Engineer.

- Strong experience in Snowflake and/or Databricks (any one is fine, both preferred).

- Hands-on experience on Azure Cloud (e.g., Azure Data Factory, ADLS, Azure Synapse, Azure Key Vault, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps).

- Expertise in SQL and performance tuning for large datasets.

- Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data frameworks.

- Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python or Scala.

- Experience with data modeling techniques (star schema, normalized models, dimensional modeling).

- Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines and version control (Git).

- Exposure to data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.

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