Sr. Data Engineer - Agile Azure - GCP

Technical Lead

Qualification:

• Bachelors in science, engineering, or equivalent

Responsibility:

Project Planning and Setup:

• Understand the project scope, identify activities/tasks, task level estimates, schedule, dependencies, risks, and provide inputs to Module Lead for review.
• Provide inputs to testing strategy, configuration, deployment, hardware/software requirement, etc.
• Review plan and provide feedback on gaps, timeline, and execution feasibility, etc., as required in the project.
• Participate in KT sessions conducted by the customer/other business teams and provide feedback on requirements.

Requirement Understanding and Analysis:

• Analyze functional/non-functional requirements and seek clarifications for a better understanding of requirements.
• Based on the understanding of the system upstream & downstream, provide feedback and inputs on gaps in requirements and technical feasibility of requirements.

Design:

• Prepare the LLD/detailed design documents based on HLD and briefing from Module Lead.
• Seek inputs from the developers on specific modules as applicable.
• Consolidate all modules and provide them to Module Lead/Architects/Designers for review.
• Suggest changes in design on technical grounds.
• Develop components inventory for the code to be developed, tying it to the nonfunctional requirements.
• Perform sampling of data to understand the character/quality of the data (project-dependent in the absence of a data analyst or designer).
• Identify tools and technologies to be used in the project as well as reusable objects that could be customized for the project.

Coding:

• Follow coding standards and best practices to develop code and check code quality.
• Share developed code with a supervisor for review.
• Rework on the code based on inputs if required.
• Perform complex integration.
• Guide the developers in identifying, preparing, and conducting unit test cases and fixing defects based on results.
• Consolidate the test results and share them with the supervisor.
• Provide periodic status updates to the supervisor and highlight/recommend any changes in design based on challenges faced.
• Anticipate unreported defects and raise the same to the supervisor.
• Conduct technical troubleshooting.
• Conduct reviews for codes created by the team.

Testing Management:

• Develop unit test cases for each module.
• Conduct/guide conducting unit and integration testing and fix defects.
• Review/approve code to be moved to the testing environment.
• Provide support to the QA team and coordinate for various phases of testing.
• Address queries raised by QA within defined timelines.
• Investigate critical defects and establish the need for fixing.
• Raise issues to leads/QA.
• Report defect status as per the project standard process within agreed timelines.
• Share revised code with a supervisor for review.
• Assist the team lead and project manager on estimates around defect fixes.

Configuration Management:

• Maintain versions of the code or consolidate versions maintained by the Developers.
• Provide support as required to the Administrators during configuration, code backups, deployment, etc.

Deployment:

• Assess and create a deployment/rollback plan.
• Validate if all the components have been migrated and the right version is checked in.
• Maintain deployment tracker.
• Perform sanity checks post-deployment to ensure smooth production.
• Share activity status with a supervisor and highlight concerns if any.

Project Execution Monitoring & closure (Support to Project Management activities):

• Monitor the work of the developers and share work achieved with them.
• Provide guidance through SDLC.
• Provide the status of progress to leads.
• In case of change requests, provide inputs on the plan.

Service Support and Maintenance:

Specific to production and maintenance support:

• Provide support for 1 week and hand over to the production team.
• Identify if the incoming request is a service request/defect during the warranty or an incident.
• If it is a code defect in the warranty, highlight it to Lead and initiate the defect fix process.
• Post warranty, support in the transition to the maintenance team.

Knowledge Management:

• Post-release, participate in project review calls and discuss points on what went well and what didn't.
• Create and update knowledge articles (case studies, lessons learned) in the knowledge management repository.
• Guide developers in creating such documents.
• Publish white papers/blogs/articles (if required).

People Management:

• Conduct training through the academy or internally within the team.
• Conduct technical, face-to-face interviews for internal transfer or external hiring.
• Provide feedback on Developers from a technical/domain standpoint to the module lead.

Must-Have Skills:

• Python
• Seaborn

Good To Have Skills:

• 3NF data modeling
• PL/SQL