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Job Summary

Seeking a senior AWS Data Engineer with 7 to 10 years of experience.


Responsibilities

AWS Data Engineer Skillset

Claude code is a required skill - Should have at least completed trainings

A. Core AWS Data Engineering - Required

Strong experience building pipelines using

  • AWS Glue or Lambda PySpark or Python for batch and micro-batch processing
  • Medallion architecture implementation - Bronze or Silver or Gold layers
  • Amazon S3 data lake design for raw curated and certified zones
  • Amazon Athena for analytical querying and cost aware access patterns
  • Apache Iceberg table design partitioning and maintenance
  • Snapshot management and time travel usage in Iceberg
  • Amazon Redshift for high concurrency and analytical workloads
  • Amazon RDS - approved engines for operational and serving data stores
  • B. Pipeline Orchestration and Eventing - Required

  • Workflow orchestration using AWS Step Functions
  • Event-driven ingestion using Amazon EventBridge
  • AWS Lambda for lightweight processing and control plane logic
  • AWS Fargate and approved container platforms for scalable execution
  • Coordination of batch micro batch and event driven pipelines
  • Error handling retries and compensating actions
  • State management for long running and multi stage workflows
  • C. Data Reliability and Operational Readiness -Required

  • Design of idempotent restartable pipelines
  • Backfill and reprocessing strategies
  • Definition and monitoring of pipeline SLAs or SLOs
  • Integration with enterprise monitoring and alerting tools
  • D. Cost and Performance Engineering - Strongly Preferred

  • Athena or RDS or Redshift query optimization and cost management
  • Glue job sizing tuning and cost controls
  • Lambda execution optimization memory duration invocation patterns
  • Cost efficient use of Fargate and containerized workloads
  • S3 storage optimization across Bronze or Silver or Gold layers
  • Awareness of end to end AWS cost tradeoffs across storage compute and orchestration

  • Certifications Required

    AWS Certification preferred.


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