Senior Data Engineer

The Role

The Senior Data Engineer is a professional who designs, constructs, and maintains systems that collect, store, and analyse large amounts of data. They are the main contributor to project development. They design and own complex epics, working with stakeholders to garther requirements, design approach and implement. They are self directed, comfortable supporting junior team members, and can deputise for the Technical Lead.

• How the role fits within a team: What sort of people and skills do I need in my team? 
• More details on requirements and responsibilities: Senior Data Engineer Job Specification

How to Become a Senior Data Engineer:

• Experiences of becoming a Senior Data Engineer: How I Became a... Lead Data Engineer 
• Recommended Experience:
  • Strong background grounded in data engineering
  • Proficient in Scala and Spark
  • Expertise building and deploying production-level data processing batch systems; and working with cloud environments
  • A strong technical communication ability with demonstrable experience working in rapidly changing client environments.
• Recommended Quantexa Certifications
  • Alongside the strong experience outlined, we also recommend Senior Data Engineers to complete the academy training as recommended for Data Engineers:
    • Quantexa Data Engineer Academy (DEA): The Quantexa Data Engineer Academy is an in-depth program aimed to teach Data Engineers how to build Quantexa Platforms.
    • Quantexa Scoring Engineer Academy (SEA): The Quantexa Scoring Engineer Academy qualifies the individual to write key detection logic that can be implemented within the Quantexa Assess framework.

Prepares You to Become:

The Senior Data Engineer role is a great foundation for many roles including:

Technical Lead

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