Senior Technical Lead | Data Engineer

**Role & responsibilities:** - Review and understand business requirements ensuring that development tasks are completed within the timeline provided and that issues are fully tested with minimal defects - Partner with a software development team to implement best practices and optimize the performance of Data applications to ensure that client needs are met at all times - Collaborate across the company and interact with our customers to understand, translate, define, design their business challenges and concerns into innovative solutions - Research on new Big Data technologies, assessing maturity and alignment of technology to business and technology strategy - Work in a rapid and agile development process to enable increased speed to market while maintaining appropriate controls **Preferred candidate profile:** - BE/B.Tech/MCA with At least 9+ years of experience in design and development using Data Engineering technology stack and programming languages - Mandatory experience in following areas: 1. Python/Scala/Java 2. Hadoop, HDFS, MR 3. Spark SQL, Dataframes, RDDs 4. SQL 5. Hive / Snowflake/SQL Server/Databricks 6. Elastic Search - Preferred experience in 3 or more of the following areas: 1. Spark Streaming, Spark ML 2. Kafka/Flume 3. Apache NiFi 4. Apache Airflow/Oozie 5. Cloud-based Data Platforms 6. NoSQL Databases HBase/Cassandra/Neo4j/MongoDB - Good knowledge of the current technology landscape and ability to visualize industry trends - Working knowledge of Big Data Integration with Third-party or in-house built Metadata Management, Data Quality, and Master Data Management solutions - Active community involvement through articles,blogs or speaking engagements at conferences