Senior Data Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud-EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Analytical and Problem solving, AWS, Big Data Technology, Business Analytics, Computer Vision (CV), Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Effective communication skills, ETL/ELT technologies, HDFS, Java Programming, NoSQL, Planning and organization, Python Programming, Russian Language, Scrum Agile Methodology, Shell Scripting language, SQL

Job Description

The opportunity 

To play a critical role in the development of high-performance data solutions & information products at Presight.

Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region’s leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With its world-class computer vision, AI and omni-analytics platform as its engine, Presight excels at all-source data interpretation to support insight-driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• The candidate is expected to have a solid background on software development with strong python coding skills and solve challenging problems.
• Developing Data pipelines with Cloud Services & On-premise Data Centers.
• Web crawling, data cleaning, data annotation, data ingestion and data processing.
• Reading and collating complex data sets
• Creating and maintaining data pipelines
• Continual focus on process improvement to drive efficiency and productivity within the team
• Use of Python, SQL, ES, Shell etc. to build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data
• Provide insights into key business performance metrics by building analytical tools that utilize the data pipeline
• Support the wider business with their data needs on an ad hoc basis 
• Open to extensive international business travel as and when required, and for extended periods

Skills and attributes for success

The yardsticks of your performance would include cost savings achieved, number of data systems adhering to architecture standards, adherence to policies, procedures & quality standards, number of innovations/POCs deployed, database throughput, and customer NPS.

Qualifications

To qualify, you must have 

• 4+ years of programming experience, solid coding skills in Python, Shell, and Java
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
• Strong practical knowledge in data processing and migration tools, such as Apache NiFi, Kafka, and Spark.
• Design, build, and maintain data processing with CDP(Cloudera Data Platform) Private Cloud.
• Develop and Maintain Data Workflow with Apache Airflow.
• Experience with HDFS or Similar Object Storage
• Strong Understanding about Distribute Computing and Distributed Systems
• Experience with Web crawling, cleaning.
• Experience with solution architecture, data ingestion, query optimization, data segregation, ETL, ELT, AWS, EC2, S3, SQS, lambda, Elastic Search, Redshift, CI/CD frameworks and workflows.
• Working knowledge of data platform concepts - data lake, data warehouse, ETL, big data processing (designing and supporting variety/velocity/volume), real time processing architecture for data platforms, scheduling and monitoring of ETL/ELT jobs
• PostgreSQL and programming (preferably Java, Python), proficiency in understanding data, entity relationships, structured & unstructured data, SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of best practice in optimizing columnar and distributed data processing system and infrastructure
• Experienced in designing and implementing dimensional modelling
• Knowledge of machine learning and data mining techniques in one or more areas of statistical modelling, text mining and information retrieval. 
• Be open to extensive international business travel as and when required, and for extended periods

Ideally, you’ll also need 

• Strong analytical and data visualization skills 
• In-depth market and domain knowledge 
• An innovative and creative approach to problem-solving 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills 

What we look for:

If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Presight community.