Responsibilities for Data Engineer

• Create and maintain the optimal data pipeline architecture,
•   Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
•   Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
•   Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
•   Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
•   Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
•   Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions.
•   Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
•   Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

 Qualifications for Data Engineer

•   We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field. They should also have experience using the following software/tools:
•   Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
•   Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
•   Experience performing root cause analysis of internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
•   Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured data sets.
•   Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management.
•   A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
•   Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
•   Strong project management and organizational skills.
•   Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
•  Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
•   Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB, Postgres and Cassandra, AWS Redshift, Snowflake
•   Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
•   Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, ETL, Glue, RDS, Redshift
•   Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
•   Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, etc.
•   Knowledge of data pipelines and workflow management tools like Airflo

Location: Chenna, India / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia