Lead Data Engineer (AWS Data Platform)
NorthBay Solutions4 months ago
Islamabad, PakistanSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using PySpark, AWS Glue, and Amazon EMR.
- Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, processing, and ETL/ELT frameworks for structured and semi-structured data.
- Develop and maintain enterprise data warehouse solutions using Amazon Redshift.
- Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations for analytics and reporting.
- Tune Spark jobs, ETL pipelines, SQL queries, and Redshift workloads for performance.
- Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and governance across data platforms.
- Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis for data-related incidents.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, analysts, architects, and engineering teams to define data requirements.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and best-practice implementation.
- Monitor pipelines, identify performance improvements, automate processes, and maintain technical documentation, data models, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- 5 to 8+ years of experience in data engineering and data warehousing.
- Strong hands-on experience with PySpark and AWS Glue.
- Experience building and managing workloads on Amazon EMR.
- Strong expertise in Amazon Redshift and SQL development and query optimization.
- Understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and ETL/ELT processes.
- Experience tuning Spark jobs, SQL queries, ETL pipelines, and data warehouse workloads.
- Experience handling large-scale datasets and distributed data processing.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Relevant AWS certifications are advantageous.
- Preferred experience includes S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, workflow orchestration tools, CI/CD and DevOps practices, and data governance, security, and compliance.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Pakistan.
- Must be available during UAE business hours and follow UAE public holidays.
- Opportunity to collaborate with a UAE-based customer and distributed teams.
- Remote-environment flexibility and cross-functional collaboration.
About NorthBay Solutions
NorthBay Solutions is a privately held IT services firm that helps enterprises modernize on AWS through cloud migration, data engineering, and AI/ML solutions. An AWS Premier Consulting Partner founded in 2010 and headquartered in Andover, MA, it also partners with Snowflake and provides managed services, DevOps enablement, and application development. The company operates distributed teams across the US, Canada, UAE, India, and Pakistan.