Data Pipeline Engineer-Kafka(SJ-BY) (Kochi)

Responsiblities Build batch-seed and event-tail ingestion per source system, including seed tail watermark handoff, idempotent upserts, and dedup ledgers - Build and operate medallion layers with reprocess-from-Bronze, pipeline orchestration (checkpoints, retry/backoff, DLQ), and full observability - Build data-quality gates (quarantine / pass-with-flag), quality scoring, and a reconciliation engine covering count, record, and financial reconciliation financial is zero-tolerance - Build identity matching combining deterministic rules with probabilistic scoring and confidence bands; deliver deduplication, golden-record materialization, and survivorship rules, calibrating match thresholds with labelled data - Author and maintain source canonical structural mappings and value crosswalks (e.g., collapsing 1,800+ raw employment-status values to ~20 standard ones) as governed, versioned configuration - Enforce data contracts at the boundary: schema registry, fail-fast validation, and semver-compatible schema evolution What Were Looking For - 5+ years building production data pipelines at scale - Kafka depth: consumers/producers, replay, DLQ, exactly-once / idempotent processing patterns - Robust SQL and solid ETL fundamentals - Java and/or Python in production - Medallion/lakehouse layering, CDC, watermark/checkpoint patterns, and batch-stream hand-off - Data-quality frameworks: validation rules, quarantine and re-entry, quality scoring, reconciliation - Entity resolution / MDM exposure: record matching, dedup, survivorship via commercial tools (Informatica MDM, Reltio) or custom builds - Data mapping and crosswalk discipline: profiling messy datasets, authoring governed reference data, config-as-code (YAML/JSON, Git) Bonus Points - Probabilistic record linkage at depth blocking/candidate generation, scoring models, threshold calibration (expected at senior level) - Schema registry experience (Avro/Protobuf) - Extracting from mainframe or older RDBMS sources with limited CDC support - Financial reconciliation in finance-adjacent domains - Benefits administration or healthcare domain knowledge .