The posting
WE ARE HIRING: Associate Technical Lead – Data Engineering
Location: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Employment Type: Contract
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Industry: Technology & Software Engineering
About the Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Associate Technical Lead – Data Engineering to design, develop, and support enterprise-scale data solutions for a global organization. This role offers the opportunity to work with large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native data platforms, and modern engineering practices while collaborating within Agile, cross-functional teams.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in data engineering, cloud technologies, ETL development, and large-scale data processing, along with the ability to provide technical guidance and contribute to delivery excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable data engineering solutions for enterprise applications.
- Implement distributed and highly available data processing applications capable of supporting large-scale business operations.
- Process and manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data efficiently.
- Design and develop ETL processes, data pipelines, and integration solutions.
- Work with cloud-based data platforms and services to build modern data architectures.
- Ensure high code quality through software engineering best practices, code reviews, and testing standards.
- Support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices across development initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams within Agile delivery environments.
- Follow DevOps principles and contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle.
- Participate in development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and post-production support activities.
- Align team members on technical direction, implementation approaches, and engineering best practices.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and development approaches.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or an equivalent qualification.
- Minimum 4+ years of experience in developing enterprise-grade data processing applications.
- Strong programming experience in Python, Shell Scripting, and SQL.
- Experience working with streaming data technologies such as Kafka.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including: Redshift RDS (PostgreSQL) DMS Lambda EC2 S3
- Experience processing and managing large data volumes.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, and distributed storage platforms.
- Strong experience in ETL design and development.
- Experience with ETL and cloud data tools such as: Informatica AWS Data Pipeline AWS Glue Lambda EMR Spark Hive
- Experience working in Agile Scrum environments.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices and modern engineering workflows.
- Experience with source code management and CI/CD tools such as: GitHub GitLab Jenkins
- Experience guiding team members on technical implementation approaches and engineering standards.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Strong willingness to learn, adapt, and continuously improve technical capabilities.
Added Advantages
- Experience with API development.
- Exposure to user interface technologies such as: Node.js Angular HTML
- Experience working with modern cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
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