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Responsibilities

  • Monitor daily BAU data pipelines and ensure our data solution is refreshed up to date every day.
  • Work with the team within an Agile framework using agile methodology tooling that controls our development and CI/CD release processes.
  • Get up to speed with existing data infrastructure, tools, and processes.
  • Monitor and respond to IT incidents.
  • Build familiarity with key pipelines/processes and support documentation, enhancing documentation.
  • Begin proactive monitoring and suggest quick wins for stability and efficiency.
  • Work on incident RCA along with other engineers within the team.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, RCA reports, and knowledge base articles.
  • Implement monitoring dashboards and alerts for key jobs and data quality checks.
  • Mentor junior engineers or act as a technical go-to for pipeline and cloud topics.

Essential Qualifications

  • Experience with data solution BAU processes (ETL, table refresh, etc.).
  • Experience in Big Data data integration technologies such as Spark and Kafka.
  • Experience in a programming language such as Python.
  • Experience using AWS (Athena, Glue, EMR, Step functions, CloudWatch), DBT, and Snowflake.
  • Analytical and problem‑solving skills applied to data solutions.
  • Experience with CI/CD.
  • Experience handling IT incidents.
  • Experience with IT incident management processes.
  • Basic understanding of event streaming.
  • Basic knowledge of Scala (nice to have).
  • Experience of ETL technologies.
  • Previous exposure to own data solution BAU monitoring and enhancement.
  • Exposure to Grafana.

Desired Skills

  • Experience with data solution BAU processes (ETL, table refresh, etc.).
  • Experience in Big Data data integration technologies such as Spark and Kafka.
  • Experience in a programming language such as Python.
  • Experience using AWS (Athena, Glue, EMR, Step functions, CloudWatch), DBT, and Snowflake.
  • Analytical and problem‑solving skills applied to data solutions.
  • Experience with CI/CD.
  • Experience handling IT incidents.
  • Experience with IT incident management processes.
  • Basic understanding of event streaming.
  • Exposure to Grafana.

Employment type: Full‑time


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