Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science or related technical subject area or equivalent combination of education and experience 6+ years relevant work experience in the Data Engineering field with web scale data sets.
Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and data lake architecture.
Data Warehousing Experience with Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, Airflow etc.).
Coding proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Scala, etc)
Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing and query performance tuning skills of large data sets.
Industry experience as a Big Data Engineer and working along cross functional teams such as Software Engineering, Analytics, Data Science with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.
Strong business acumen. Experience leading large-scale data warehousing and analytics projects, including using GCP technologies – Big Query, Dataproc, GCS, Cloud Composer, Dataflow or related big data technologies in other cloud platforms like AWS, Azure etc.
Experience providing technical leadership and mentor other engineers for the best practices on the data engineering space
Strong project management skills, including work prioritization, planning, and task delegation
Ability to effectively communicate (both written and verbally) technical information and the results of engineering design at all levels of the organization.
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