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Role Description:
We are seeking a Lead Data Service Engineer who can work closely with the Technical Lead/Architect in creating robust data pipelines and data service APIs to aid in the development of the our products and services The ideal candidate will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact to the organization on a daily basis.The role is a part of a high performing team in a fast-paced organization. The position is highly technical and the ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can act independently

Key responsibilities:
Partner with geographically diverse development teams, QA teams in a DevOps model of the agile development process
Participate in all sprint ceremonies namely grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, demos, retro
Participate in preliminary story review, providing constructive feedback and input on work effort estimation as well as design
Partner with product teams to understand API needs, define and develop applications/ architecture .
Drive development, deployment, and life cycle monitoring of Java based APIs that will be used to operationalize JAVA applications in a
production environment.
Build data expertise and a deep understanding of business domain knowledge and own data quality for allocated areas of ownership
Work with Cloud Engineering and infrastructure teams to ensure proper computational infrastructure is available to support rapid development
Work independently to figure out technical challenges, and identify options and come up with solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a
variety of audiences.
Working with an agile mindset to deliver small projects quickly in order to provide value and gain feedback in a production environment.

Experience and Skills:
Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of experience (or Masters with 3+ years) designing, developing and leading large-scale software development
and data engineering projects.
Solid understanding of Data structures, Algorithms and object oriented design.
Expert in writing secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects.
Knowledge/Experience on distributed data processing platforms like Apache Spark, Hadoop.
6+ years of experience in application development using Java &Spring to build microservices, RESTful APIs etc. and distributed data processing
platforms
3+ years of experience in relational (e.g.:- Oracle/Postgres), NOSQL (e.g.:- MongoDB/ DynamoDB), Search (e.g:- ElasticSearch) , Messaging
/Streaming (e.g:- SQS, RabbitMQ, Kinesis) data systems & distributed system concepts from a data storage and compute perspective.
3+ years of experience developing software in Agile environment (TDD, BDD, Stories, UAC, DoD etc)
2+ years of experience with DevOps toolchains for infrastructure deployment, software build/test/deploy, and systems/application monitoring
/logging tools.
1+ years of experience of using Data Integration and ETL tools like Talend, Pentaho etc.
1+ years of experience with native AWS technologies for data storage, ETL, Orchestration and analytics such as AWS Glue, Athena, S3,
Lambda, Glue, EMR Spark, Kinesis, SQS,SNS, CloudWatch, etc.
1+ years of experience with Cloud native technologies, containerization and orchestration.

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