IFS is hiring a

Senior Data Engineer

Colombo, Sri Lanka
Full-Time
  • Design, develop, and maintain a generic ingestion framework capable of processing various types of data (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) from customer sources.
  • Implement and optimize ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to ensure data integrity, quality, and reliability as it flows into the centralized datastore like Elasticsearch.
  • Ensure the ingestion framework is scalable, secure, efficient and capable of handling large volumes of data in real-time or batch processes.
  • Continuously monitor and enhance the data ingestion process to improve performance, reduce latency, and handle new data sources and formats.
  • Develop automated testing and monitoring tools to ensure the framework operates smoothly and can quickly adapt to changes in data sources or requirements.
  • Provide documentation, support, and training to other team members and stakeholders on using the ingestion framework.
  • Implement large-scale near real-time streaming data processing pipelines.
  • Design, support and continuously enhance the project code base, continuous integration pipeline, etc.
  • Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into key business performance metrics.
  • Perform POCs and evaluate different technologies and continue to improve the overall architecture.
  • Experience building and optimizing Big Data data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
  • Strong proficiency in Elasticsearch, its architecture and optimal querying of data.
  • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
  • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
  • Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data systems.
  • One plus years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
  • Candidates must have 4 to 6 years of experience in a Data Engineer role with  Bachelors or Masters (preferred) in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent field. Candidate should have knowledge of using following technologies/tools:
    • Experience working on Big Data processing systems like Hadoop, Spark, Spark Streaming, or Flink Streaming.
    • Experience with SQL systems like Snowflake or Redshift
    • Direct, hands-on experience in two or more of these integration technologies; Java/Python, React, Golang, SQL, NoSQL (Mongo), Restful API.
    • Versed in Agile, APIs, Microservices, Containerization etc.
    • Experience with CI/CD pipeline running on GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, EKS.
    • Knowledge of at least one distributed datastores like MongoDb, DynamoDB, HBase.
    • Experience using batch scheduling frameworks like Airflow (preferred), Luigi, Azkaban etc is a plus.
    • Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community. #Li-Hybrid

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