Senior Engineer - Data Engineering

Hatchyardlinkedin.com

Oct 26, 2026, 5:50 PM20h ago

Full-timeColombo, Western ProvinceData engineeringSenior (3+ yrs)

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About the role

The Senior Engineer - Data Engineering will be responsible for designing and developing data solutions for a major global corporation in the food products marketing and distribution sector. The role involves implementing scalable, distributed, and highly available data processing applications, ensuring high code quality, and adhering to best practices in software engineering, DevOps, and Agile methodologies. The position requires collaboration within cross-functional teams throughout the software lifecycle, from development to post-production support. Candidates should have a strong programming background in data operations, experience with large data volumes, and hands-on expertise with databases, ETL tools, and CI/CD processes.

Must have

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 3-5 years of experience in developing enterprise grade data processing applications
A strong programming background in data ops (Python, Shell, SQL)
Experience in processing large volumes of data
Hands-on experience in working with relational/NoSQL databases and distributed storage engines (HDFS, S3, Redshift)
Hands-on experience in ETL design and development using ETL tools (Preferably Informatica and cloud tools such as AWS Data Pipelines, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Spark, Hive)
Working experience in a Scrum Agile delivery environment and with DevOps practices
Experience in code management and CI/CD tools such as Github, Gitlab, Jenkins
Experience in an agile environment and aligning Pod members on technical vision and path to implementation
A strong desire to continue to grow your skillset
Strong communication skills that are influential and convincing

Nice to have

Experience in working with streaming data (using tools such as Kenisis, Kafka, Storm, Spark) will be an added advantage
Experience in API development and user interfaces and related tools (NodeJS, AngularJS, HTML) will be an added advantage

Technologies

Agile
Angular
AWS
Bash
CI/CD
Data Engineering
Data Pipelines
DevOps
ETL
GitHub
GitLab
Hive
HTML
Jenkins
Kafka
AWS Lambda
Node.js
NoSQL
Python
Redshift
S3
Scrum
Spark
SQL