Staff Data Engineer

The Economist

10+ Years Gurugram, Haryana, India NA

• 10+ years of professional experience of designing, building data pipelines and managing data platforms (including ETL, ELT and lambda architectures), using technologies such as Apache Airflow, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, or other equivalent.
• Expert level knowledge of both SQL and programming (Python, Scala, or Java)
• Experience with data technologies such as object storage (s3, hdfs), lakehouse (Iceberg or equivalent), data warehousing (Snowflake or equivalent), orchestration (Airflow or equivalent), data processing frameworks (Pyspark, pandas or equivalent) data modelling, lineage and governance tools.
• Professional experience in cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred), such as serverless functions, API gateway, relational and NoSQL databases, and caching.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, containerization, and DevOps.
• Experience in leading / mentoring data engineering teams.
• Experience in working in teams with data scientists and ML engineers, for building ML pipelines for recommendation, customer lifetime value and propensity models.
• An advanced degree in software / data engineering, computer / information science, or a related quantitative field or equivalent work experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work well with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong ownership, scrappy and biased for action.

May 15, 2025 Apply Now