Lead Data Engineer (AWS Cloud)

Position: - Lead Data Engineer (AWS Cloud) Location: - Remote Type: - Contract to Hire Job Description • Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using PySpark on Databricks. • Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines. • Implement Delta Lake solutions (Delta tables, time travel, ACID transactions). • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and architects to deliver analytics-ready datasets. • Optimize Spark jobs for performance, scalability, and cost. • Integrate data from multiple sources (RDBMS, APIs, files, cloud storage). • Implement data quality checks, validation, and monitoring. • Manage Databricks notebooks, jobs, clusters, and workflows. • Follow data governance, security, and compliance standards. • Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices. Qualifications • Hands-on experience with Data Frames, RDDs, joins, transformations, and actions within PySpark. • Proven experience leading teams and mentoring engineers. • Job optimization, cluster configuration, repartitioning, and Shuffle mechanics in Databricks. • S3 buckets, IAM, CloudWatch, and integration with Databricks and AWS. • Strong query skills for analytics and ETL with SQL. • Performance tuning: Partitioning, caching, broadcast joins, and skew handling. • Delta Lake, Medallion Architecture, Spark Streaming, Spark ML, and CI/CD pipelines. • ETL/ELT design patterns. - Handling large-scale structured and semi-structured data. • Performance tuning (partitioning, caching, broadcast joins). • Understanding of data warehousing concepts. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to work in Agile delivery environments. • Ownership mindset and delivery-focused approach. • Strong technical decision-making and problem-solving skills. Apply tot his job