Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data platforms and enterprise-grade data pipelines. The ideal candidate should possess strong expertise in big data technologies, cloud platforms, distributed processing systems, and modern data engineering practices.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building robust ETL/ELT frameworks, optimizing large-scale data workflows, enabling real-time and batch processing, and supporting analytics and AI-driven initiatives across the organization.

You will collaborate with Data Architects, Data Scientists, Analysts, Product Teams, and DevOps teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure data solutions.

 

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data
  • Build and maintain enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and lakehouse architectures
  • Develop high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems
  • Optimize Spark jobs, SQL queries, and cloud infrastructure performance
  • Implement data quality, monitoring, observability, and governance solutions
  • Integrate data from multiple internal and external sources
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business and analytics requirements
  • Ensure platform scalability, reliability, security, and fault tolerance
  • Lead technical discussions, code reviews, and mentoring of junior engineers
  • Support CI/CD automation and DevOps best practices
  • Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technology evaluations

 

Required Skills

  • Strong expertise in Python and SQL
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Spark / PySpark
  • Experience with Apache Kafka or streaming technologies
  • Strong understanding of data modeling and database design
  • Experience with ETL/ELT frameworks and orchestration tools
  • Expertise in GCP, Snowflake, Airflow, Hadoop ecosystem
  • Knowledge of distributed systems and scalable architectures

 

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Hudi
  • Exposure to real-time analytics and event-driven architecture
  • Docker and Kubernetes experience
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM data pipelines
  • Knowledge of data governance and observability tool

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Employment Type:

Job ID:

TEKNID-78578

Location:

Texas,

United States

Date Posted:

May 21, 2026

Pay Rate:

$0-0/0.000000

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