The Senior Test Consultant I role involves designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud platforms, ensuring data quality and compliance, and collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize data processing.
Description and Requirements
Position Summary
MetLife established a Global capability center (MGCC) in India to scale and mature Data & Analytics, technology capabilities in a cost-effective manner and make MetLife future ready. The center is integral to Global Technology and Operations with a 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
Senior Big 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)
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Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification
Experience
(In Years)
8-11+ years of relevant experience
Technical Skills
• SQL, Python/Scala
• NoSQL and distributed databases (Hbase, Cosmos DB)
• ETL pipeline 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 pipelines with Spark
• Communication skills, analytical skills, structured problem-solving skills.,
• Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience
Preferred skills
• DevOps practices: Git, AzureDevops, CI/CD pipelines
• Unix shell scripting, MongoDB, Nifi
• Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Position Summary
MetLife established a Global capability center (MGCC) in India to scale and mature Data & Analytics, technology capabilities in a cost-effective manner and make MetLife future ready. The center is integral to Global Technology and Operations with a 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
Senior Big 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)
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Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification
Experience
(In Years)
8-11+ years of relevant experience
Technical Skills
• SQL, Python/Scala
• NoSQL and distributed databases (Hbase, Cosmos DB)
• ETL pipeline 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 pipelines with Spark
• Communication skills, analytical skills, structured problem-solving skills.,
• Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience
Preferred skills
• DevOps practices: Git, AzureDevops, CI/CD pipelines
• Unix shell scripting, MongoDB, Nifi
• Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
Spark
Azure Data Factory
Azure Functions
Cosmos Db
Databricks
Eventhub
Hadoop
Hbase
Hive
MongoDB
Nifi
Python
Scala
SQL
Synapse
Unix Shell Scripting
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