Senior Data Engineer Python/ Database/ AWS

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Engineer with minimum of 8 years of experience to join our dynamic data engineering team. As a Senior Data Engineer at GFT, you will play a pivotal role in designing, maintaining, and enhancing various analytical and operational services and infrastructure crucial for the organization's functions. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless flow of data for critical decision-making processes.

Key Activities:

• Data Infrastructure Design and Maintenance: Architect, maintain, and enhance analytical and operational services and infrastructure, including data lakes, databases, data pipelines, and metadata repositories, to ensure accurate and timely delivery of actionable insights.
• Collaboration: Work closely with data science teams to design and implement data schemas and models, integrate new data sources with product teams, and collaborate with other data engineers to implement cutting-edge technologies in the data space.
• Data Processing: Develop and optimize large-scale batch and real-time data processing systems to support the organization's growth and improvement initiatives.
• Workflow Management: Utilize workflow scheduling and monitoring tools like Apache Airflow and AWS Batch to ensure efficient data processing and management.
• Quality Assurance: Implement robust testing strategies to ensure the reliability and usability of data processing systems.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering, and propose and implement optimizations to enhance development efficiency.

• Deep understanding of the principles of distributed systems.
• Experience in data engineering and building ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with performance tuning of Hadoop/Spark solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Python and its data/scientific libraries** (e.g. pySpark, pandas, numpy/scipy, polars).
• Experience with working with version control systems (e.g git)
• Database Proficiency: Experience with columnar and big data databases like Athena, Redshift, Vertica, and Hive/Hadoop.
• Cloud Services: Familiarity with AWS or other cloud services like Glue, EMR, EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Containerization: Experience with container management and orchestration tools like Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD: Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or AWS CodePipeline.

Nice-to-have requirements:

• Programming Languages: Familiarity with JVM languages like Java or Scala.
• Database Technologies: Experience with RDBMS (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis).
• BI Tools: Exposure to enterprise BI tools like Tableau, Looker, or PowerBI.
• Data Science Environments: Understanding of data science environments like AWS Sagemaker or Databricks.
• Monitoring and Logging: Knowledge of log ingestion and monitoring tools like ELK stack or Datadog.
• Data Privacy and Security: Understanding of data privacy and security tools and concepts.
• Messaging Systems: Familiarity with distributed messaging and event streaming systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee's length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: GFT covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes
• Performance evaluation is once per year, for 2 purposes:
  > Performance bonus > Salary increments

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team's vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap

Social

• Company townhall: each 6 weeks
• CSR activities: as per company's CSR guideline
• Onsite tour/training courses at other GFT offices and client's destination overseas (where applicable).