# Associate - Data Platform Engineer

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: Mumbai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Associate - Data Platform Engineer role involves designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) enabling core framework components.

Key responsibilities 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 modern 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 written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to operate in a matrixed organization and fast-paced environment

- Strong interpersonal skills with a can-do attitude under challenging circumstances

- Bachelor's degree in computer science is strongly preferred

Benefits:

- Strong retirement plan

- Tuition reimbursement

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Support for working parents

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

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## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- Snowflake
- Airflow
- dbt
- Azure services
- Agile development

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