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 issues
Experience with performance tuning
Excellent writt

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