About this role

Overview

The Associate - Data Platform Engineer engages in projects from the start, including:
- Refining requirements
- Designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) enabling core framework components

Key tasks include:
- Automating data pipelines
- Supporting teams using the framework
- Adhering to data platform standards
- Enhancing performance and scalability

Responsibilities
- Actively participate in chapter ceremony meetings and contribute to project planning and estimation
- Coordinate work with product managers, data owners, platform teams, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC cycle
- Use Airflow, Python, Snowflake, dbt, and related technologies to enhance and maintain EDP acquisition, ingestion, processing, orchestration and DQ frameworks
- Adopt new tools and technologies to enhance framework capabilities
- Build and conduct end-to-end tests to ensure production operations run successfully after every release cycle




- Document and present accomplishments and challenges to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrate deep understanding of contemporary data engineering tools and best practices
- Design and build solutions which are performant, consistent, and scalable
- Contribute to design decisions for complex systems
- Provide L2 / L3 support for technical and/or operational issues

Qualifications
- At least 5+ years' experience as a data engineer
- Expertise with SQL, stored procedures, UDFs
- Advanced level Python programming
- Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud native databases
- Experience with orchestration tools, especially Airflow
- Experience with declarative transformation tools like dbt
- Experience in Azure services, especially ADLS (or equivalent)
- Exposure to real time streaming platforms and message brokers (e.g., Snowpipe Streaming, Kafka)
- Experience with Agile development concepts and related tools (ADO, Aha)
- Experience conducting root cause analysis and solve

📌 Data Engineer, Aladdin Data, Associate (Mumbai)
🏢 BlackRock
📍 Mumbai