AWS Data Engineer
Role Overview
The role focuses on building scalable AWS-based ingestion pipelines, optimizing performance, and aligning with architecture and data quality standards.
The stated contract length is 12 months, with a view to extend.
The stated location is Abu Dhabi, with an ASAP start.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The role focuses on building scalable AWS-based ingestion pipelines, optimizing performance, and aligning with architecture and data quality standards.
The stated contract length is 12 months, with a view to extend.
The stated location is Abu Dhabi, with an ASAP start.
Key responsibilities
- Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines using AWS Glue, PySpark, S3, Athena, and Lambda.
- Implement CDC, full-load, delta, snapshot, and historical loading patterns.
- Develop and optimize Bronze-layer ingestion pipelines.
- Improve pipeline performance through partitioning, parallelization, and AWS best practices.
- Automate deployment and infrastructure using Git and Terraform.
- Ensure pipelines comply with data contracts, monitoring, and data quality standards.
- Work with Data Architects, Data Assurance, and Platform teams.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive migration and engineering activities.
Required skills and experience
- At least 5 years of experience in data engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS data services, particularly Glue, S3, Athena, and Lambda.
- Strong PySpark and ETL/ELT development experience.
- Good understanding of Lakehouse architecture and Medallion design principles.
- Experience with CDC, batch ingestion, delta loads, and historical data migration.
- Experience with Git, Terraform, CI/CD, and Agile/Jira.
- Banking or financial services experience is advantageous.
Compensation
- The stated salary is AED 18,500 per month.
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