Senior Data Engineer (Dev Background)
Summary
A 6-month Melbourne CBD contract to build and run real-time streaming data pipelines on Databricks and AWS, ingesting from Kafka/Kinesis into a Bronze/Silver/Gold Delta Lake lakehouse, with focus on data correctness, monitoring and tuning for latency, cost and reliability.
What you'll do
- Build and own streaming pipelines using Databricks Structured Streaming, Auto Loader and Delta Lake
- Ingest from Kafka (MSK) and Kinesis into a Bronze, Silver, Gold lakehouse
- Keep data correct: dedup, late and out-of-order events, schema changes and safe replays
- Monitor and tune pipelines for latency, cost and reliability
- Strong hands-on Databricks streaming experience in production, not just batch
- Solid Python coding experience (software)
- Real experience with Kafka or Kinesis
- AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR and CloudWatch
- Comfort in CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK)
- Type: 6 month contract with high multiple extension possibility
- Location: Melbourne CBD
Send your CV to brooke@nuagetg.io for more information!