- Location
- Hyderabad, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Manager
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Master
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineering Developer (Databricks & Scala)
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer with strong expertise in Databricks, Apache Spark, and Scala to design, develop, and optimize large-scale data processing solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building distributed data pipelines, implementing scalable ETL frameworks, and delivering cloud-native data solutions on Azure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Apache Spark, and Scala.
- Build ingestion, transformation, and validation frameworks for high-volume data processing.
- Develop and optimize Spark jobs for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Implement and manage Databricks workflows, job orchestration, and scheduling.
- Troubleshoot production issues, performance bottlenecks, and pipeline failures.
- Optimize cluster utilization, Spark execution plans, and data processing efficiency.
- Work with cross-functional teams to design data architectures and integration solutions.
- Implement best practices for coding, testing, CI/CD, and deployment.
- Support production environments and participate in incident resolution and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate in Agile teams to deliver high-quality data products.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience in:
- Databricks
- Apache Spark
- Scala
- Spark SQL
- PySpark
- Experience in:
- Distributed data processing frameworks
- ETL/ELT pipeline development
- Data modeling and data warehousing concepts
- Performance tuning and optimization of Spark applications
- Cloud experience:
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
- Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Strong SQL development and query optimization skills.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git/GitHub.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Preferred Skills
- Delta Lake
- Unity Catalog
- CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Harness)
- Snowflake
- Data Quality and Validation Frameworks
- Financial Services / Reference Data domain knowledge
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
- 6+ years of hands-on Databricks and Spark development experience.
- Strong experience developing production-grade Scala applications.
Nice-to-Have
- Databricks Certification
- Azure Certification
- Experience with Real-Time Streaming (Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming)
- Exposure to Lakehouse architecture patterns
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