Big Data Engineer II

MGCC GG 10.2 – Data Engineer II

Position Title MGCC GG 10.2 – Big Data Engineer II

Function, Responsibility Level Reports to (Responsibility Level): GG 11 or above

Supervises Location: Global Grade: 10

Cost Center (85 Series) Complexity: OSTG

PID/s Load Mapping Position Summary MetLife established a Global capability center (MGCC) in India to scale and mature Data & Analytics, technology and operations capabilities in a cost-effective manner and make MetLife future ready. The center is integral to Global Technology and Operations with a focus to protect & build MetLife IP, promote reusability and drive experimentation and innovation. The Data & Analytics team in India mirrors the Global D&A team with an objective to drive business value through trusted data, scaled capabilities, and actionable insights. The operating models consists of business aligned data officers- US, Japan and LatAm & Corporate functions enabled by enterprise COEs- data engineering, data governance and data science

Role Value Proposition Data Engineer plays a critical role in data and analytics life cycle and significantly contributes to production grade data and analytics solutions. The role requires one to demonstrate Big Data, Engineering and Cloud expertise. It is an individual contributor role, expected to independently function Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud(Azure) or on-prem to collect, ingest and store large volumes of structured and unstructured data for batch/real time processing
• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot data pipelines to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance
• Ensure data processing, quality, security, and compliance guidelines, policies and standards are followed
• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights)

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Education Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification

Technical Skills And Experience

• 5-8+ years of relevant experience
• SQL, Python/Scala
• NoSql and distributed databases (Hbase, Cosmos DB)
• ETL pipleine development
• Big Data Frameworks : Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive
• Cloud platforms: Azure data factory, Eventhub, Azure functions, Synapse, Databricks
• Datawarehouses, data marts, data lakes
• Medallion architecture
• Performance tuning, optimization, and data quality validation
• Real-time and batch data processing , streaming pieplines with Spark
• Communication skills, analytical skills, structured problem-solving skills.,
• Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience

Good To Have (Preferred)

• DevOps practices: Git, AzureDevops, CI/CD pipelines
• Unix shell scripting, MongoDB, Nifi
• Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools