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Role Overview :

Were looking for a hands-on Data Engineer to own the data layer of customer go-lives - ensuring migrations are validated, analytics pipelines are hardened, and business dashboards are powered by accurate, performant data. Youll be responsible for validating and signing off on end-to-end data migrations, building high-quality SQL models, and implementing automated data quality checks to catch issues early.

This is a highly technical and impact-driven role focused on migration testing, SQL performance tuning, and data quality automation - aligning with AWS and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities :

- End-to-End Migration Validation : Design and execute functional and performance validation for data migrations - including parity, nullability, PK/FK, duplication, and sampling checks - with complete documentation and sign-off aligned to AWS migration testing guidelines.

- Advanced SQL Development : Write and optimize analytical SQL (CTEs, window functions, incremental loads). Use EXPLAIN plans to tune query performance and ensure indexes and statistics support BI workloads.

- Automated Data Quality Frameworks : Implement and maintain data validation frameworks using Great Expectations, Deequ, or similar tools. Automate validation and publish Data Docs to ensure transparency across teams.

- Modeling & Documentation (dbt) : If using dbt, build models with tests, exposures, and documentation to ensure traceability between dashboards and upstream data sources.

- Orchestration & Reliability : Productionize data validation and transformation jobs within Airflow DAGs, ensuring well-defined SLAs, alerts, and reliable pipeline operations.

- (Optional) Cloud Data Engineering : Build incremental pipelines and optimize batch processing for Snowflake (Streams & Tasks) or PostgreSQL, ensuring performance and cost efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications :

- Experience : 4-7+ years as a Data Engineer or Analytics Engineer.

- SQL Expertise : Advanced proficiency in SQL and strong RDBMS fundamentals (PostgreSQL required), with proven experience in query tuning using EXPLAIN/analyze.

- Migration Validation : Hands-on experience designing and executing data migration validation (parity, integrity, and performance testing).

- Tooling Knowledge : Experience with one or more of the following - dbt, Great Expectations or Deequ/PyDeequ, Airflow.

- Version Control : Comfortable with Git-based workflows and CI/CD integration.

Nice to Have :

- Experience with Snowflake (Streams, Tasks, cost optimization, and warehouse tuning).

- Exposure to BI tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or Metabase.

- Working knowledge of Python for lightweight data transformations and validation frameworks.