Required qualifications, capabilities & skills • Formal training or certification on data engineering concepts and applied experience • Recent hands-on professional experience as a data engineer • Experience in coding in a recent version of the Python programming language • Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.) • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English • Understanding of cloud technologies and distributed systems • Understanding of data transformation frameworks and data pipeline orchestration tools • Understanding of how to manage and optimize queries for large volumes of data within different kinds of data stores (including relational data stores) Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills • Experience in working in a highly regulated environment / industry • Understanding of AWS cloud technologies • Understanding of data governance frameworks • Understanding of event-based architecture, data streaming and messaging framework