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Senior Data Engineer - IC

Summary

Senior Data Engineer builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and infrastructure using AWS, Databricks, and Kafka to support analytics and AI initiatives in a large media company.

Major digital and media solutions provider in Hong Kong

Job Description

Candidates with less experience will be considered as Data Engineer.

Responsibilities

  • Build up best in class data infrastructure, data engineering solutions.
  • Work with cross-functional teams within the organization of different countries, and working with PB size of data, by using modern data technologies (AWS, Databricks, Confluent Kafka, dbt, etc.).
  • Leverage industry best practices to build highly flexible, scalable and cost-effective data pipelines and platforms.
  • Manage data lakehouse architecture and self-service tools. Ensure that data is highly available and reusable for enabling data science initiatives, analytics and end users to drive business growth.
  • Develop efficient clean code, improve existing code for better performance, code review, execute code builds to test and production environments.
  • Manage and lead several data projects.

Job Requirements

  • To be successful in your new position, it is essential to have the following skills:
  • Degree in Computer Science, Information System, Actuarial or related discipline.
  • At least 5 years of working experience in data warehouse, ETL, BI, Big data areas and broad exposure to all its sub-disciplines.
  • Strong in SQL, Python/Scala.
  • Experience working with large, complex and multiple data sets from various sources.
  • Expert in data architecture, data modelling and design, data pipeline and data integration.
  • Hands‑on experience in using big data components such as Hive, Spark, Presto, Python and Airflow.
  • Experience in AWS (EC2, S3, Kinesis/Kafka, Athena, Redshift), Google Cloud or other public cloud environments is a must.
  • Experience leading a small team of data engineers is a plus.
  • Working experience in the digital, e‑commerce industry, mobile app and web environment is highly desirable.

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