What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer position at Galent?
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About Galent: Galent is an AI-native digital engineering firm delivering enterprise-ready AI solutions. Through consulting, AI-native services, and digital engineering, we help organizations unlock the full potential of AI and drive next-generation digital transformation.
For more information about Galent and our suite of AI solutions, visit www.galent.com.
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Washington DC (Onsite)
Full Time
Job Description:
Must-Haves
- 4–7 years of hands-on Data Engineering experience
- Experience delivering multiple production-grade cloud data platform implementations
- Advanced Python, SQL, and Spark/PySpark with some exposure to Databricks.
- Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT, data modeling, CDC, streaming, governance, and performance optimization
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment strategies
- Experience contributing to solution design and architectural decisions
- Experience leading technical implementation activities and/or mentoring engineers
- At least one Associate-level or higher AWS, Azure, or GCP certification
Nice-to-Haves
- Delta Lake / Lakehouse experience
- Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse, or BigQuery experience
- Docker / Kubernetes exposure
- Working knowledge of Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
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