Data Engineer
ITCO Solutions, Inc.
Job Description
The Role We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with deep expertise in Spark/PySpark/SQL to join our data team. This is a hands-on technical role for someone passionate about building scalable data systems, mentoring engineers and shaping data strategy. You’ll architect systems that power high performance batch and real time data processing, enable advanced analytics and accelerate our AI initiatives.
Key Responsibilities: Design and evolve scalable, distributed data infrastructure across cloud platforms (GCP and AWS). Build and maintain real time and batch data processing pipelines supporting AI/ML workloads, consumer applications, and analytics. Develop and manage integrations with third party e-commerce platforms to expand our data ecosystem.
Ensure data availability, reliability and quality through monitoring and automated auditing. Partner with engineering, AI and product teams on data solutions for business critical needs. Mentor and support data engineers, establishing best practices and code quality standards.
Must haves: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Software development and data engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production grade data infrastructure. Deep expertise scaling Spark/PySpark/SQL in production (Databricks, DataProc in GCP, etc).
Strong understanding of distributed computing and modern data modeling for scalable systems. Proficient in Python with experience implementing software engineering best practices. Hands-on experience with both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch) databases.
Strong communicator with experience influencing cross functional stakeholders. Nice to Have: Experience with a job orchestrator and containerization, such as Airflow and Docker. Experience working with vector stores and knowledge graphs.
Experience working in early-stage, high-growth environments. Familiarity with MLOps pipelines and integrating ML models into data workflows. Passionate about problem-solving with a proactive approach to finding innovative solutions.