Job Description

Job Title: Lead Data Engineer


Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)


Job Type: Fulltime



Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of data solutions using AWS and Snowflake.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security.
• Optimize data storage and retrieval processes to support data warehousing and analytics.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior data engineers.
• Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver data-driven insights.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices in data engineering.
• Utilize knowledge of insurance, particularly claims and loss, to enhance data solutions.

Skills :

• Snowflake expertise (hands-on & architectural understanding) , challenging situation in the project(most common question)this must be data related, or implementation related only
• ETL/Data Management proficiency, mastery in: Query optimization, data quality, performance tuning, big data problems, RBAC, row/column-level security, CDC, Incremental vs Batch, Unix commands, job scheduling, CI/CD pipeline
• Team leadership (8-10+ members) , End-to-end project implementation with clarity, complex challenges in the project, describe the specific problem and its solution
• Excellent communication skills
• Stakeholder management & cross-functional collaboration (knowledge on data quality checks, profiling, STTM, data integration from multiple sources, reusable framework)
• Release planning, change management, training, KT, L2/L3 support
• Apache Iceberg + AWS glue good to have
• 10+ years of relevant experience in Data Engineering and delivery.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in Big Data Concepts. Worked on cloud implementations.
• Strong experience with SQL, python and Pyspark
• Good understanding of Data ingestion and data processing frameworks
• Good experience in Snowflake, SQL, AWS (glue, EMR, S3, Aurora, RDS, AWS architecture)
• Good aptitude, strong problem-solving abilities, analytical skills, and ability to take ownership as appropriate.
• Should be able to do coding, debugging, performance tuning, and deploying the apps to the Production environment.
• Experience working in Agile Methodology

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