Alcon

Principal I, Data Engineering (T)

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7 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and operate scalable, modular data and analytics platforms.
  • Lead end-to-end cloud-native data solutions on AWS across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and consumption layers.
  • Build and maintain high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, Step Functions, EventBridge, and related technologies.
  • Design and optimize Amazon Redshift data warehouses, including schemas, performance, workload management, partitioning, and query optimization.
  • Define technical architectures, data integration patterns, data models, governance practices, data quality standards, and engineering best practices.
  • Support analytics, reporting, AI/ML, and strategic decision-making through data analysis, profiling, and modeling.
  • Advise, mentor, and coach data engineering and analytics teams.
  • Participate in backlog grooming, sprint planning, technical design reviews, and effort estimation.
  • Evaluate and deploy emerging data engineering, cloud, and analytics technologies.
  • Promote innovation, collaboration, automation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • At least 7 years of hands-on data engineering experience with enterprise-scale ETL/ELT pipelines, data platforms, data lakes, and data warehouses.
  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience developing cloud-native data solutions on AWS, including S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, and EventBridge.
  • At least 4 years of programming experience in Python, Scala, or Java with strong software engineering fundamentals.
  • At least 3 years of experience designing, optimizing, and supporting Amazon Redshift data warehouse solutions.
  • At least 3 years of experience with dimensional modeling, star and snowflake schemas, data vault methodologies, and analytical data structures.
  • At least 2 years of experience designing batch and streaming architectures for real-time or near-real-time processing.
  • Experience with AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Spark, or equivalent cloud-native services.
  • Experience with at least two database technologies and cloud data warehouse platforms.
  • Experience with source control, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated deployment practices.
  • Proficiency with Tableau and Amazon QuickSight.
  • Understanding of data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, and monitoring.
  • Preferred experience includes healthcare or regulated environments, privacy and security regulations, healthcare interoperability, EMR/EHR and PACS integrations, MLOps, AI/ML platforms, and modern data platforms.
  • AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Data Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS Analytics Specialty are highly desirable.

Benefits

  • Work hours are 1 PM to 10 PM IST.
  • Relocation assistance is provided.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSGoogle BigQueryJavaMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPythonScalaSnowflake

Categories

Data Engineering
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