Senior Data Engineer

The primary goal of the project is the modernization, maintenance and development of an eCommerce platform for a big US-based retail company, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week. Solutions are delivered by several Product Teams focused on different domains - Customer, Loyalty, Search and Browse, Data Integration, Cart. Current overriding priorities are new brands onboarding, re-architecture, database migrations, migration of microservices to a unified cloud-native solution without any disruption to business.

We are looking for a Data Engineer who will be responsible for designing a solution for a big retail company. The main focus is to support processing of big data volumes and integrate solution to current architecture.

• Strong, recent hands‑on expertise with Azure Data Factory and Synapse (3+ years).
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing data models, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models, to support efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Databricks, py Spark for building scalable and reliable data solutions.
• Extensive experience with building robust and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into data lakes or data warehouses.
• Ability to integrate data from disparate sources, including databases, APIs, and external data providers, using appropriate techniques such as API integration or message queuing.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing data warehousing solutions (dimensional modeling, star schemas, Data Mesh, Data/Delta Lakehouse, Data Vault).
• Proficiency in SQL to perform complex queries, data transformations, and performance tuning on cloud‑based data storages.
• Experience integrating metadata and governance processes into cloud‑based data platforms.
• Certification in Azure, Databricks, or other relevant technologies is an added advantage.
• Experience with cloud‑based analytical databases.
• Experience with Azure MI, Azure Database for Postgres, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Analysis Services, and Informix.
• Experience with Python and Python‑based ETL tools.
• Experience with shell scripting in Bash, Unix or Windows shell is preferable.

• Experience with Elasticsearch.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning:
  Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in data processing workflows and optimize data pipelines for efficient data ingestion and analysis.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, and other cross‑functional teams.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting