AWS Data Engineer

🕒 July 8

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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EXL

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

📦 Logistics

💰 $2M Venture Round on 2015-01

Healthcare • Insurance • Logistics

EXL is a business consulting and services firm that focuses on leveraging data to enhance business operations and decision-making. With a strong emphasis on collaboration and adaptability, EXL partners with organizations to address their unique needs and culture while integrating data science and technology solutions. The company's areas of expertise include operations management, decision analytics, digital transformation, and various industries such as healthcare, finance, and insurance. EXL's mission is to help clients drive business evolution and maintain competitive advantage through tailored solutions and effective use of data.

📋 Description

• Design and build robust, scalable data transformation pipelines using SQL, DBT, and Jinja templating • Develop and maintain data architecture and standards for Data Integration and Data Warehousing projects using DBT and Amazon Redshift • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver dimensional data models that serve as a single source of truth • Own the full stack of data modeling in DBT to empower analysts, data scientists, and BI engineers • Enhance and maintain the analytics codebase, including DBT models, SQL scripts, and ERD documentation • Ensure data quality, governance alignment, and operational readiness of data pipelines • Apply software engineering best practices such as version control, CI/CD, and code reviews • Optimize SQL queries for performance, scalability, and maintainability across large datasets • Implement best practices for SQL performance tuning, including partitioning, clustering, and materialized views • Build and manage infrastructure as code using AWS CDK for scalable and repeatable deployments. Integrate and automate deployment workflows using AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and related DevOps tools • Support Agile development processes and collaborate with offshore teams • Perform comprehensive data profiling on staging datasets to assess completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and conformity with business rules before downstream ingestion. • Conduct gap analysis between source, staging, and target data models to identify missing attributes, mismatched definitions, and transformation issues impacting reporting and analytics. • Partner with business SMEs, product owners, and analytics teams to clarify data definitions, resolve ambiguities, and prioritize remediation of critical data gaps.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s (preferred) degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent • 4+ years of experience in data engineering and analytics on modern data platforms • 3+ years’ extensive experience with DBT or similar data transformation tools, including building complex & maintainable DBT models and developing DBT packages/macros • Deep familiarity with dimensional modeling/data warehousing concepts and expertise in designing, implementing, operating, and extending enterprise dimensional models • Understand change data capture concepts • Experience working with AWS Services (Lambda, Step Functions, MWAA, Glue, Redshift) • Hands-on experience with AWS CDK, CodeCommit, and CodePipeline for infrastructure automation and CI/CD • Python proficiency or general knowledge of Jinja templating in Python and/or PySpark • Agile experience and willingness to work with extended offshore teams and assist with design and code reviews with customer • A great teammate and self-starter, strong detail orientation is critical in this role.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work From Home