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Requirements
Must:
- 6+ years of experience with ETL, data pipelines, and data warehouse production environments
- Strong expertise in troubleshooting ETL/ELT processes using tools such as Matillion, Informatica, ODI, or SSIS
- Experience in cloud-based data platforms like Snowflake
- Proven ability to analyze job failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools
- Familiarity with incidents, problem, and change management processes in ITIL-based environments
- Strong SQL programming and debugging skills with relational and cloud databases
- Experience with traditional and non-traditional forms of analytical data design (Kimbal, Inmon etc)
- Excellent communication skills to interact with business users, analysts, and cross-functional technical teams
- Domain knowledge in the area of finance data is preferred
- Experience with SAP Systems and Databases is a plus
- Knowledge of data visualization tools, such as PowerBI or Tableau is a plus
Responsibilities
- Monitor and support daily ETL processes, data pipelines, and batch jobs to ensure timely and accurate data delivery.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, job failures, and performance bottlenecks across ETL and data warehouse systems.
- Work closely with the Data platform team to resolve data load issues.
- Perform root cause analysis of recurring issues and implement permanent fixes.
- Collaborate with development teams to transition projects smoothly into production and ensure operational readiness.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for proactive issue detection.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and availability through ongoing validation and health checks.
- Apply best practices for production support, including incident management, change management, and problem management.
- Work closely with business users, data analysts, and other stakeholders to resolve data-related queries.
- Document runbooks, support procedures, and knowledge base articles to streamline production operations.
- Continuously optimize processes for reliability, performance, and scalability in production environments.
- Ensure compliance with data security, access controls, and audit requirements in production systems.
- Check system dashboards, logs, and alerts for failures or anomalies.
- Verify data quality and integrity checks (row counts, duplicates, missing data, schema changes).
- Review ETL/ELT job runs, data pipeline executions, and batch processes.
- Validate data loads into staging, warehouse, and downstream systems for critical tables.
- Monitor real-time and scheduled jobs to ensure SLAs are met.
- Investigate and resolve production issues (job failures, data inconsistencies, performance delays).
- Collaborate with business users to resolve data access or reporting issues.
- Coordinate with development/engineering teams for fixes, hot patches, or re-runs of failed jobs.
- Track and document incidents, resolutions, and preventive measures in ticketing systems.
- Participate in daily/weekly operations meetings to report status and highlight issues.
- Handover critical ongoing issues to on-call/offshore support (if applicable).
- Enhance existing models with the addition of fields as per the requirements.
- Help with deployments and initial loads during Go-live.
- Perform root cause analysis for recurring or high-severity incidents.
- Fine-tune ETL workflows and SQL queries to improve performance.
- Implement monitoring scripts and automation to reduce manual intervention.
- Restructure the load plans to improve efficiency.
- Review security and access controls to ensure compliance.
- Update documentation (runbooks, troubleshooting guides, SOPs) for operational continuity.
Description
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team where we leverage data analytics to provide insights and recommendations that drive strategic decision-making. Our ideal candidate will be responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and supporting critical ETL processes, data pipelines, and data warehouse environments. We offer a collaborative work environment with opportunities to work with cross-functional teams in Finance, Accounting, Operations, and HR. This role is essential in ensuring the datas availability, accuracy, and reliability in our cloud-based data platforms. Join us in this exciting opportunity to enhance our data capabilities!
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