Senior Executive / Assistant Manager - Data Engineer
About the role
The Senior Executive / Assistant Manager - Data Engineer at InQube is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from various sources. The role involves building and optimizing data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts, ensuring data quality and integrity, collaborating with analysts and stakeholders, and implementing data governance and compliance standards. The position also requires optimizing database performance, automating manual processes, monitoring data pipelines, and supporting ad-hoc data requests. The ideal candidate will have a relevant degree and 3–6 years of experience in data engineering or a related field, with hands-on experience in ETL/ELT pipelines, large-scale data systems, and cloud data platforms.
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s degree is a plus)
- Minimum 3–6 years of experience in data engineering, database development, or a related field
- Proven experience designing and maintaining production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed data systems
- Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language (Python, Java, or Scala)
- Hands-on experience with data pipeline/orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, dbt, Luigi)
- Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP — e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks)
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (e.g., Lakehouse, Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, OneLake) is an advantage
- Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) is an advantage
Technologies
- Airflow
- AWS
- Azure
- BigQuery
- Data Engineering
- Data Lake
- Data Pipelines
- Data Warehousing
- Databricks
- dbt
- ELT
- ETL
- GCP
- Hadoop
- Java
- Kafka
- Lakehouse
- Microsoft Fabric
- Python
- Redshift
- Scala
- Snowflake
- Spark
- SQL
Highlights
The position is based at Athurugiriya. Applications should be sent via email to Careers@inqube.com with the specified subject line. A Master's degree is considered a plus. Experience with Microsoft Fabric and big data technologies is advantageous.