
Senior Data Tech Lead – Architect
qode.world
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dallas • New Jersey • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Provide technical solution discovery effort on any new capabilities or new functionality.
- Assist PO with technical user stories to ensure healthy backlog features
- Lead the development of **real-time data pipelines** using **AWS DMS**, **MSK**, Kafka or Glue Streaming and for CDC ingestion from multiple SQL Server sources (RDS/on-prem).
- Build and optimize **streaming and batch data pipelines** using **AWS Glue (PySpark)** to validate, transform, and normalize data to **Iceberg and DynamoDB**.
- Define and enforce **data quality, lineage, and reconciliation logic** with support for both streaming and batch use cases.
- Integrate with **S3 Bronze/Silver layers** and implement efficient **schema evolution and partitioning strategies** using Iceberg.
- Collaborate with architects, analysts, and downstream application teams to design **API and file-based egress** layers.
- Implement **monitoring, logging**, and **event-based alerting** using CloudWatch, SNS, and EventBridge.
- Mentor junior developers and enforce best practices for modular, secure, and scalable data pipeline development.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on expert level data engineering experience in **cloud-based environments** (AWS preferred) with event driven implementation
- Strong experience with **Apache Kafka / AWS MSK** including topic design, partitioning, and Kafka Connect/Debezium
- Proficiency in **AWS Glue (PySpark)** and for both batch and streaming ETL
- Working knowledge of **AWS DMS**, **S3**, **Lake Formation**, **DynamoDB**, and **Iceberg**
- Solid grasp of **schema evolution**, **CDC patterns**, and **data reconciliation frameworks**
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (CDK/Terraform) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, Git)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
real-time data pipelinesAWS DMSMSKKafkaGlue Streamingstreaming data pipelinesbatch data pipelinesAWS Glue (PySpark)data qualitydata lineage
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationbest practices enforcement