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Sr AWS Data Engineer

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Job Description: Data Engineer (AWS)

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We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. By combining strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices, we help organizations accelerate innovation in a technology-driven world.

Our Tech Stack 🚀

AWS is a key growth area for us, and we are expanding our capabilities in designing and building data platforms. We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer with hands-on experience in:

  • ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and data lake design/build

  • AWS Data & Analytics services such as EMR, Glue, RedShift, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB (or equivalent open-source technologies)

    Essential Requirements âś…

  • You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking

  • You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment

  • Experience in the design and deployment of production data pipelines from ingestion to consumption within a big data architecture, using Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL.

  • Experience performing tasks such as writing scripts, extracting data using APIs, writing SQL queries etc.

  • Experience in processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data, including integrating data from multiple sources through ingestion and curation functions on AWS cloud using AWS native or custom programming

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