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Job description
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer with 9 years of experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Glue, Redshift, Athena, and related AWS services. The role demands end-to-end ownership of data workflows, performance optimization, and delivering reliable data solutions to support business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning initiatives.
Design, build, and manage scalable and high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, PySpark, and Step Functions.
Develop and optimize data warehousing solutions using Amazon Redshift for structured and semi-structured data.
Implement efficient query solutions using Amazon Athena, Redshift Spectrum, and data lake patterns.
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance through robust validation and transformation techniques.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for data pipeline health using CloudWatch and other AWS-native tools.
Manage and orchestrate jobs via AWS Glue Workflows, Step Functions, or custom schedulers (e.g., Apache Airflow).
Tune performance for ETL jobs and SQL queries in Redshift and Athena for faster execution.
Handle data modeling, schema design, and partitioning strategies for large-scale datasets.
Stay updated with AWS data services and recommend architecture improvements and cost optimizations.
Skill
AWS Glue (ETL/PySpark)
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Athena
Data Lake (S3-based)
SQL (T-SQL, Redshift SQL)
ETL Design Data Pipelines
Data Modeling (Star, Snowflake)
AWS Lambda & Step Functions
AWS IAM, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS
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About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview. All candidates must be authorized to work in the USA.
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