Apache Nifi Kafka Engineer

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Job Title: Apache Nifi Kafka Engineer
Experience: 5- 8 Years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: General
Main location: India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai
Position ID: J0925-0065
Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 5 years of relevant experience.

Position Description: We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Engineer with a strong background in building end-to-end ETL and ELT data pipelines and working across both AWS and GCP cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Big Data ecosystems, real-time and batch processing, and experience working with large-scale distributed systems.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and storing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Work with large-scale data processing frameworks like PySpark, Spark SQL, and Spark Streaming to enable real-time and batch analytics.
• Optimize and manage ETL pipelines, data lakes and data warehouses on AWS (S3, Athena, Redshift, RDS, Glue, EMR) and GCP (BigQuery, DataProc, GCS).
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT workflows for ingesting, transforming, and delivering high-volume data from diverse sources to data lakes and data warehouses
• Develop data integration workflows using tools like Apache NiFi, Kafka, Sqoop, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Airflow.
• Implement CDC, SCD Type 1, SCD Type 2, and real-time ingestion patterns.
• Leverage Hive for data querying and performance tuning using Partitioning, Bucketing, and Compression techniques.
• Handle multiple data formats including Parquet, ORC, Avro, JSON, XML, and CSV.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers, conduct technical interviews, and contribute to building a high-performance data engineering team.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Participate in Agile discussions, client meetings, sprint planning, and demos.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Must-Have Skills:

• Proficient in PySpark, Spark Core, Spark SQL, and Spark Streaming.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services – S3, Redshift, Athena, Glue, EMR.
• Strong exposure to Google Cloud Platform – BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Spanner, GCS.
• Expertise in Hive, HDFS, Kafka, Apache NiFi and Sqoop.
• Experience with job orchestration tools like Apache Airflow or BMC Control-M.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, data governance, and data quality best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills with a collaborative mindset.

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