Senior Data Engineer
Project description
The primary goal of the project is the modernization, maintenance and development of an eCommerce platform for a big US-based retail company, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week. Solutions are delivered by several Product Teams focused on different domains - Customer, Loyalty, Search and Browse, Data Integration, Cart. Current overriding priorities are new brands onboarding, re-architecture, database migrations, migration of microservices to a unified cloud-native solution without any disruption to business.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for Data Engineer who will be responsible for designing a solution for a big retail company. The main focus is to support processing of big data volumes and integrate solution to current architecture.
SKILLS
Must have
- Readiness to work until 8.00 pm CET (no need to do overtimes)
- Overall years of experience required 8+
- Strong, recent hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory and Synapse is a must (3+ years).
- Strong expertise in designing and implementing data models, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, to support efficient data storage and retrieval.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, including data modeling, report and dashboard development, and building interactive, business-ready visualizations based on enterprise data sources.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks, pySpark for building scalable and reliable data solutions.
- Extensive experience with building robust and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into data lakes or data warehouses.
- Ability to integrate data from disparate sources, including databases, APIs, and external data providers, using appropriate techniques such as API integration or message queuing.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing data warehousing solutions (dimensional modeling, star schemas, Data Mesh, Data/Delta Lakehouse, Data Vault)
- Proficiency in SQL to perform complex queries, data transformations, and performance tuning on cloud-based data storages.
- Experience integrating metadata and governance processes into cloud-based data platforms
- Certification in Azure, Databricks, or other relevant technologies is an added advantage
- Experience with cloud-based analytical databases.
- Experience with Azure MI, Azure Database for Postgres, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Analysis Services, and Informix.
- Experience with Python and Python-based ETL tools.
- Experience with shell scripting in Bash, Unix or windows shell is preferable.
Nice to have
• Experience with Elasticsearch • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). • Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning: Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data processing workflows and optimize data pipelines for efficient data ingestion and analysis. • Collaboration and Communication: Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, and other cross-functional teams.
