Data Engineer S3 work

EXL Talent Acquisition Team; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL Talent Acquisition Team is seeking a Data Engineer in Gurugram with hybrid work arrangement. The role focuses on translating business needs into scalable data models, reverse engineering data structures, and addressing integration challenges.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of data engineering experience, strong SQL/CTE skills, and hands-on knowledge of Snowflake, ETL, and AWS services like S3 and Glue. A CS/engineering degree is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer.
• Strong SQL querying skills (joins, subqueries, CTEs).
• Experience with Snowflake, ETL, SQL, CI/CD.
• Strong ETL expertise and data modeling concepts.

Responsibilities

• Understand business needs and translate into data models for long-term solutions.
• Reverse engineer physical data models from databases and SQL scripts.
• Analyze data-related system integration challenges and propose solutions.
• Assist in setting data architecture direction including data movement and technology strategy.

Skills

SQL

Snowflake

Python

ETL

Data Modeling

CI/CD

Data Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

S3

Glue

Athena

EMR/Spark

Job description

Role: Data Engineer

Location: Gurugram (Hybrid)

Key Role and Responsibilities:

• Understand and translate business needs into data models supporting long-term solutions.


• Perform reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and SQL scripts.


• Analyse data-related system integration challenges and propose appropriate solutions.


• Assist with and support setting the data architecture direction (including data movement approach, architecture/technology strategy, and any other data related considerations to ensure business value).

Requirements:

• 5+ Years of experience as a Data Engineer


• Strong technical expertise in SQL Advanced SQL querying skills (joins, subqueries, CTEs, aggregation)


• Strong knowledge of joins and common table expressions (CTEs)


• Experience in Snowflake, ETL, SQL, CI/CD


• Strong expertise in ETL process and with various data model concepts


• Knowledge of star schema and snowflake schema


• Good to know about AWS services such as S3, Athena, Glue, EMR/Spark with a major emphasis on S3 and Glue


• Good knowledge of Python

Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience

Key Skills: SQL, Snowflake, Python, AWS