Senior Data Engineer
Iasi, Romania
Suvoda
IRT, eConsent, eCOA, and ePatient solutions to help you wisely guide novel science through complex clinical trials.Senior Data Engineer
Department: Product Architecture
Reports to: Manager, Data Engineering
Suvoda is seeking a skilled and driven Senior Data Engineer to help evolve our data platform towards a data mesh architecture. In this role, youāll design and build domain-oriented data products exposed via GraphQL APIs and support near real-time reporting through AWS DMS replication to Aurora PostgreSQL.
Youāll work on building and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue and PySpark, ensuring scalable, high-performance data processing across our platform.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a data mesh architecture using GraphQL APIs to expose domain-owned data products.
- Build and maintain a modern AWS-based data lake using S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, and Redshift.
- Develop and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue and PySpark to support batch and streaming data workloads.
- Implement AWS DMS pipelines to replicate data into Aurora PostgreSQL for near real-time analytics and reporting.
- Support data governance, quality, observability, and API design best practices.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deliver robust, reusable data solutions.
- Contribute to automation and CI/CD practices for data infrastructure and pipelines.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to help evolve the platform.
Requirements:
- Bachelorās degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Mathematics.
- At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, with demonstrated ownership of complex data systems.
- Experience working with GraphQL APIs for data access.
- Strong expertise in AWS Glue and PySpark for scalable ETL/ELT development.
- Solid experience with AWS data lake technologies (S3, Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, Redshift).
- Hands-on experience with AWS DMS and Aurora PostgreSQL for real-time data replication.
- Understanding of data mesh principles and decentralized data architecture.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with data modeling, orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masterās degree, especially with a focus on data engineering, distributed systems, or cloud architecture.
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis).
- Familiarity with data cataloging and metadata management tools.
- Knowledge of data privacy and compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
- Background in agile development and DevOps practices.
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Tags: Agile Airflow APIs Architecture Athena AWS AWS Glue CI/CD CloudFormation Computer Science Data governance DevOps Distributed Systems Driverās license ELT Engineering ETL GraphQL Kafka Kinesis Lake Formation Mathematics Pipelines PostgreSQL Privacy PySpark Python Redshift Security SQL Streaming Terraform
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