DE&A, Data Engineering Apache
Zensar Technologies
About the Role
Design, develop, and implement scalable, resilient, and high-performance data pipelines and data architectures for enterprise data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines supporting batch, near-real-time, and streaming data processing requirements.
- Design and implement enterprise data ingestion and integration workflows using Apache NiFi, including data routing, transformation, orchestration, monitoring, and integration across heterogeneous data sources and platforms.
- Develop distributed data processing solutions using Apache Spark with Scala and/or Python (PySpark).
- Design and implement data solutions across relational database management systems (RDBMS) and modern data lakehouse technologies such as Apache Iceberg.
- Build and optimize federated and distributed SQL capabilities using Starburst and Trino query engines.
- Develop event-driven and real-time data processing solutions using Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming / Structured Streaming.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives involving multiple engineering, product, architecture, and business teams.
- Strengthen platform reliability through automation, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Improve data quality, performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency across data platforms and pipelines.
- Support enterprise data governance by maintaining metadata, technical and business documentation, data lineage, data quality controls, and secure access to data assets.
- Partner with security and governance teams to ensure data solutions meet enterprise requirements for privacy, security, access control, compliance, and data lifecycle management.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable solutions to improve platform stability.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders across engineering, architecture, analytics, AI/ML, governance, product, and business organizations.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Apache NiFi
- Apache Spark (Scala, Python (PySpark))
- RDBMS
- Apache Iceberg
- Starburst
- Trino
- Apache Kafka
- Spark Streaming / Structured Streaming
- SQL
- CI/CD
- AI/ML
Qualifications
- Experience designing, developing, and implementing scalable, resilient, and high-performance data pipelines and data architectures.
- Experience building and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Experience designing and implementing data ingestion and integration workflows.
- Experience developing distributed data processing solutions.
- Experience designing and implementing data solutions across RDBMS and data lakehouse technologies.
- Experience building and optimizing federated and distributed SQL capabilities.
- Experience developing event-driven and real-time data processing solutions.
- Experience leading end-to-end delivery of data engineering initiatives.
- Experience strengthening platform reliability through automation, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, observability, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Experience improving data quality, performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
- Experience supporting enterprise data governance.
- Experience partnering with security and governance teams.
- Experience troubleshooting production issues and performing root-cause analysis.
- Experience collaborating with various stakeholders.

