Data Engineer, Specialist

Data Engineer, Specialist

Location: Hyderabad

Salary: Competitive

Job Description

The Data Engineer, Specialist is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support analytics and business intelligence initiatives. This role involves building robust ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, managing databases and optimizing cloud-based data platforms to ensure efficient and seamless integration of data from multiple sources.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to efficiently extract data from diverse sources, transform it as required and load it into data warehouses or analytical systems. Design and optimize database architectures and data pipelines to ensure high performance, availability and security while supporting structured and unstructured data. Integrate data from multiple sources, including APIs, third-party services and on-prem/cloud databases to create unified and consistent datasets for analytics and reporting. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders to understand their data needs, develop data solutions and enable self-service analytics. Develop automated workflows and data processing scripts using Python, Spark, SQL, or other relevant technologies to streamline data ingestion and transformation. Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies in cloud-based data warehouses such as AWS Redshift, Google Big Query, or Azure Synapse, ensuring scalability and cost-efficiency. Maintain and improve data quality by implementing validation frameworks, anomaly detection mechanisms and data cleansing processes. Thoroughly tests code to ensure accuracy and alignment with its intended purpose. Reviews the final product with end users to confirm clarity and understanding, providing data analysis guidance as needed. Offers tool and data support to business users and team members, ensuring seamless functionality and accessibility. Conducts regression testing for new software releases, identifying issues and collaborating with vendors to resolve them and successfully deploy the software into production.