Role overview

Senior Data Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Primary Responsibilities

  • Build, scale, and maintain robust data solutions.
  • Implement and optimize high-performance data pipelines: extraction, loading, transformation, and orchestration – that are designed for scalability, reliability, maintainability, and speed.
  • Champion modern software engineering practices as CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and cloud-native deployments
  • Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to transform use cases into production-ready services and solutions, owning the system from concept to production.
  • Implement rigorous testing and monitoring practices to maintain superior data quality and integrity.

Education & Certificates

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in a STEM field, required
  • Concentration in Computer Science, Math, Physics or other engineering related field, preferred

Professional Experience

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related discipline, with a proven track record of success.

Competencies & Attributes

  • Expertise in Python and SQL, with a strong foundation in data manipulation and analysis.
  • Proficient with Databricks/PySpark and dbt for data warehousing and data transformation tasks.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration tools e.g. Airflow, Dagster
  • Experience working with large language models (LLMs) especially prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)s, and/or vector databases are pluses.
  • Knowledge of fundamental principles of machine learning, feature engineering, and knowledge graphs are pluses.
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing complex data systems from the ground up.
  • Proficient in handling large-scale data projects, including data cleaning, ETL, and information retrieval.
  • Excellent communication skills required, both verbal and written.
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FocusData EngineeringRole area
Seniority signalSeniorCandidate level
StackCI/CD, Python, SQLPrimary skills
Location24 accepted countriesEligibility

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