Senior Data Engineer

• Manage the team of 3-4 Data Engineers
• Create, manage, and maintain team rosters and schedules to ensure full 8-hour coverage, 7 days a week, including rotational weekend and holiday coverage
• Must be able to work a day shift and manage a team that provides 7-day-a-week coverage, including weekends and holidays on rotation
• Handle all team leave requests (planned and unplanned)
• You are responsible for ensuring coverage is always maintained, especially during medical or other unexpected absences
• Act as the primary operational point of contact, ensuring the team executes all tasks efficiently, makes sound decisions, and adheres to all agreed-upon SLAs
• Serve as the final technical escalation point for the team
• personally handle the most critical job failures and system issues
• Lead all high-priority Root Cause Analysis (RCA) efforts, documenting solutions and implementing permanent fixes to prevent recurrence
• Drive the team's efforts in performance tuning and AWS Glue cost optimization
• Define and lead the development of new automation jobs (using Glue, Lambda, and Step Functions) to reduce manual support tasks
• Oversee all data integrity and synchronization tasks, including CDC reloads and write-backs to external databases like Teradata
• Own the knowledge transfer process to internal resources and ensure the team maintains excellent documentation and runbooks

• In-depth, expert-level knowledge and extensive hands-on experience with AWS S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions and other related services
• Demonstrated expertise with a minimum of 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Deep understanding of Data engineering, ETL principles and data warehouse design
• Demonstrable experience in system performance tuning and cloud cost optimization, specifically with AWS Glue
• Proven ability to design and develop automation solutions from the ground up
• Expert-level troubleshooting and RCA skills
• Ability to work independently, make critical decisions, and provide technical guidance
• Must be able to work a day shift that includes coverage for weekends and holidays on a rotational basis
• Strong experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), managing database synchronization, and working with Teradata

AWS Certified