Data Engineer

Position Title:
Data Engineer

Position Type:
Regular - Full-Time

Position Location:
Gurgaon

Requisition ID:
37277

Position Summary
Data engineers are mainly responsible for designing, building, managing, and operationalizing data pipelines to support key data and analytics use cases. They play a crucial role in constructing and maintaining a modern, scalable data platform that utilizes the full capabilities of a Lakehouse Platform.

You will be a key contributor to our data-driven organization, playing a vital role in both building a modern data platform and maintaining our Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). You will leverage your expertise in the Lakehouse Platform to design, develop, and deploy scalable data pipelines using modern and evolving technologies. Simultaneously, you will take ownership of the EDW architecture, ensuring its performance, scalability, and alignment with evolving business needs. Your responsibilities will encompass the full data lifecycle, from ingestion and transformation to delivery of high-quality datasets that empower analytics and decision-making.

Duties And Responsibilities
Build data pipelines using Azure Databricks:

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and workflows within the Lakehouse environment.
• Transform, cleanse, and aggregate data using Spark SQL or PySpark.
• Optimize Spark jobs for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• Develop and manage Lakehouse tables for efficient data storage and versioning.
• Utilize notebooks for interactive data exploration, analysis, and development.
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Drive Automation

• Implement automated data ingestion processes using functionality available in the data platform, optimizing for performance and minimizing manual intervention.
• Design and implement end-to-end data pipelines, incorporating transformations, data quality checks, and monitoring.
• Utilize CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) to automate pipeline testing, deployment, and version control.

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Management

• Create and maintain data models, schemas, and documentation for the EDW.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders to gather requirements, design data marts, and provide support for reporting and analytics initiatives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve any issues related to data loading, transformation, or access within the EDW.

Educate and train:
The data engineer should be curious and knowledgeable about new data initiatives and how to address them. This includes applying their data and/or domain understanding in addressing new data requirements. They will also be responsible for proposing appropriate (and innovative) data ingestion, preparation, integration and operationalization techniques in addressing these data requirements. The data engineer will be required to train counterparts in these data pipelining and preparation techniques.

Ensure compliance with data governance and security:
The data engineer is responsible for ensuring that the data sets provided to users are compliant with established governance and security policies. Data engineers should work with data governance and data security teams while creating new and maintaining existing data pipelines to guarantee alignment and compliance.

Qualifications
Education
Bachelor or master's in computer science, Information Management, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Work Experience
At least four years or more of working in data management disciplines including: data integration, modeling, optimization and data quality, and/or other areas directly relevant to data engineering responsibilities and tasks.

At least three years of experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with business stakeholders in support of a departmental and/or multi-departmental data management and analytics initiative.

Technical Knowledge, Abilities, And Skills
Ability to design, build and manage data pipelines for data structures encompassing data transformation, data models, schemas, metadata, and workload management. The ability to work with both IT and business in integrating analytics and data science output into business processes and workflows.

Strong knowledge of database programming languages and hands on experience with any RDBMS.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Job Family:
Information Technology

Division:
Global Digital Technology

Department:
Global Data and Analytics

Location(s):
IN - India : Haryana : Gurgaon

Company:
McCain Foods(India) P Ltd