Job Description - AWS Data Engineer

We are seeking an experienced AWS Data Engineer to lead and execute a large-scale migration from Matillion
ETL
to a modern AWS-native data platform. The ideal candidate will possess
deep expertise in
Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda and Snowflake,
with a strong background in designing scalable data pipelines, cloud-based data
integration, workflow orchestration, and data warehouse modernization.

The candidate will work closely
with business stakeholders, data architects, and engineering teams to migrate
existing ETL workloads, optimize data processing frameworks, and establish best
practices for cloud-native data engineering.


Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop modules/code for migration of existing Matillion jobs to AWS-native solutions.
  • Participate
    in Requirements Analysis of existing data processing jobs.

  • Design,
    develop, and promote scalable data pipelines using
    AWS Glue and Apache
    Airflow
    (and other basic AWS Services) - must have.
  • Build
    robust data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks on
    AWS.

  • Create
    reusable and modular ETL/ELT components for enterprise data platforms.

  • Data
    modeling and warehousing concepts – must have

  • Data
    migration and modernization projects – good to have

  • Implement
    data quality, monitoring, alerting, security, governance, and compliance
    standards.

  • Collaborate
    with data architects and business teams to understand migration
    requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

  • Optimize
    data processing performance, cost, and scalability across AWS services.

  • Participate
    in CI/CD best practices and DevOps processes for data engineering
    workflows.


Mandatory Skills

Core Technologies

  • Apache
    Airflow
    (DAG development, workflow orchestration, scheduling,
    monitoring)

  • AWS
    Glue
    (ETL jobs, Glue Studio, Crawlers, Data Catalog, Spark-based
    transformations)

  • Snowflake (Data Warehousing, SnowSQL, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Performance
    Tuning)

  • AWS Lambda
    and Step Functions (preferred)

  • Git
    experience (must-have)

Programming languages: Python,
SQL, Spark (any 1 is must)

PySpark, Matillion, Shell
scripting (good to have)


Experience Requirements

  • 2+
    years of intensive hands-on experience with AWS data services.

  • Proven
    experience migrating ETL platforms such as Matillion (or other ETL tools like DataStage) to AWS-native architectures (Good to have).

  • Strong
    experience developing workflows in Apache Airflow.

  • Extensive
    experience building and optimizing AWS Glue jobs.

  • Hands-on
    experience with Snowflake stored procedures (must-have), performance tuning (good-to-have).

  • Strong
    understanding of cloud architecture, scalability, deployments.



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