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Hi,
The following requirement is open with our client.
Title : Lead Data Engineer
Location : Malvern, PA Onsite
Duration : 6 Months
Rate : $63/hr on W2
Relevant Experience (in Yrs.) : 9
Looking for only W2
Job Description:
Naga Babu
Technical Recruiter
ASCII Group, LLC
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Hi,
The following requirement is open with our client.
Title : Lead Data Engineer
Location : Malvern, PA Onsite
Duration : 6 Months
Rate : $63/hr on W2
Relevant Experience (in Yrs.) : 9
Looking for only W2
Job Description:
- A Tech Lead is primarily responsible for the overall platform vision and ensuring systems do not break under scale.
- Distributed Computing: Mastery of frameworks like Apache Spark or Ray for massive-scale parallel data processing.
- Streaming & Event-Driven Architecture: Deep understanding of real-time pipeline design using Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Expertise in at least one major public cloud (AWS), specifically understanding storage/compute decoupling and cost optimization.
- Core Programming & Database Management
- Leads set coding standards and review code, requiring complete fluency in the fundamentals. [1]
- SQL: Advanced mastery for metrics computation, window functions, and query performance tuning across relational and columnar databases (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
- Scripting Languages: High proficiency in Python or Scala for writing reusable pipeline code and interacting with APIs.
- Data Storage: Deep familiarity with both columnar/analytical stores and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDb, Cassandra).
- Pipeline Orchestration & DevOps
- Ensuring pipelines run smoothly, idempotently, and securely in production. [1, 2]
- Workflow Orchestration: Ability to architect Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) in tools like Apache Airflow or Prefect.
- CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Applying software engineering principles to data by using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Data Governance & Security: Implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), data masking, and compliance frameworks.
- Leadership & Soft Skills
- Tech leads also mentor junior engineers, estimate project timelines, and translate ambiguous business needs into concrete technical specifications.
- Mentorship & Code Review: Fostering a collaborative development environment and enforcing style guidelines.
- System Observability: Building logging, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms so the team knows exactly when and why pipelines fail.
- Lead Data Engineer
- Python, AWS- S3, Lambdas
- Glue, Gen-Ai, LLMs, SQL
- DynamoDB, Kafka/ Kinesis, pySpark
Naga Babu
Technical Recruiter
ASCII Group, LLC
Office:
Mail ID: |
Salary : $63