AWS Data Engineer
This role requires a data engineer to architect and deploy scalable AWS-based solutions for financial master and reference data management, integrating real-time and API-driven pipelines for Fortune 500 clients. The candidate will focus on optimizing data flows, ensuring security, and delivering high-visibility analytics integrations across internal and external systems.
Skills required
About this role
We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Data Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, big data processing, real-time streaming, and modern data lake technologies. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Spark (PySpark), Iceberg, EMR, Starburst/Trino, and event-driven architectures, along with experience building real-time and API-driven data applications who can design and build generic solutions for one of our Fortune 500 Client programs in the realm of Financial Master & Reference Data Management. This is high visibility, fast-paced key initiative will integrate data across internal and external sources, provide analytical insights, and integrate with the customer’s critical systems.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS data architectures.
- Develop and maintain ETL pipelines using AWS Lambda and AWS Glue ETL.
- Configure and manage AWS Glue Crawlers, Glue Data Catalog, and schema evolution.
- Build, optimize, and unit test applications on the Apache Spark framework using PySpark.
- Design and optimize data lakes using Apache Iceberg on AWS, including table compaction and Iceberg performance tuning.
- Work extensively with data formats such as Avro, Parquet, JSON, XML, and CSV.
- Orchestrate event-driven workflows using AWS Step Functions and Amazon EventBridge.
- Connect and integrate Starburst from Lambda and Glue ETL jobs for federated querying.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
- Perform unit testing using PyTest, and performance tuning of Spark and Python applications
Qualifications
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture best practices, scalability, security, and cost optimization strategies.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including Lambda, Glue ETL, Athena, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, and SQS.
- Deep experience in Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) development, unit testing, and performance optimization.
- Strong Python programming skills using libraries such as pandas, requests, json, and awswrangler.
- Experience on Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka.
- Experience designing and optimizing data lakes using Apache Iceberg, including compaction and Iceberg optimization techniques.
