AWS Data Engineer
Summary
Builds and maintains AWS-based data pipelines for financial data using PySpark, AWS Glue, and serverless tools, while ensuring governance and performance.
This role requires strong data Engineering& analysis expertise across SQL, Data modelling, DBT, Airflow, and Lakehouse/data lake architecture, with hands-on experience querying large-scale distributed datasets directly from data lakes.
Banking/financial services experience, exposure to ledger/ transactional/ regulatory data, support for migration/modernization program, familiarity, with data governance / metadata. regulatory controls.
Key Responsibilities
· Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using PySpark on AWS.
· Build and orchestrate ETL/ELT workflows using AWS Glue and AWS Step Functions.
· Develop serverless applications and automation using AWS Lambda.
· Write clean, efficient, and maintainable Python/PySpark code following engineering best practices.
· Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
· Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate code deployment, testing, and infrastructure changes.
· Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data pipelines for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
· Collaborate with business stakeholders to deliver data solutions.
· Follow DevOps, security, and coding standards throughout the engagement.
Required Skills
· Strong hands-on experience with PySpark and Python for data engineering.
· Experience developing ETL pipelines using AWS Glue.
· Proficiency with AWS Step Functions for workflow orchestration.
· Experience building serverless solutions using AWS Lambda.
· Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
· Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
· Good understanding of AWS services, data lakes, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, and monitoring.