Data Engineer -2 (Experience – 2-5 years)
What we offer
Our mission is simple – Building trust. Our customer's trust in us is not merely about the safety of their assets but also about how dependable our digital offerings are. That’s why, we at Kotak Group are dedicated to transforming banking by imbibing a technology-first approach in everything we do, with an aim to enhance customer experience by providing superior banking services. We welcome and invite the best technological minds in the country to come join us in our mission to make banking seamless and swift. Here, we promise you meaningful work that positively impacts the lives of many.
About our team
DEX is a central data org for Kotak Bank which manages entire data experience of Kotak Bank. DEX stands for Kotak’s Data Exchange. This org comprises of Data Platform, Data Engineering and Data Governance charter. The org sits closely with Analytics org. DEX is primarily working on greenfield project to revamp entire data platform which is on premise solutions to scalable AWS cloud-based platform. The team is being built ground up which provides great opportunities to technology fellows to build things from scratch and build one of the best-in-class data lake house solutions. The primary skills this team should encompass are Software development skills preferably Python for platform building on AWS; Data engineering Spark (pyspark, sparksql, scala) for ETL development, Advanced SQL and Data modelling for Analytics.
The org size is expected to be around 100+ member team primarily based out of Bangalore comprising of ~10 sub teams independently driving their charter.
As a member of this team, you get opportunity to learn fintech space which is most sought-after domain in current world, be a early member in digital transformation journey of Kotak, learn and leverage technology to build complex data data platform solutions including, real time, micro batch, batch and analytics solutions in a programmatic way and also be futuristic to build systems which can be operated by machines using AI technologies.
The data platform org is divided into 3 key verticals:
Data Platform
This Vertical is responsible for building data platform which includes optimized storage for entire bank and building centralized data lake, managed compute and orchestrations framework including concepts of serverless data solutions, managing central data warehouse for extremely high concurrency use cases, building connectors for different sources, building customer feature repository, build cost optimization solutions like EMR optimizers, perform automations and build observability capabilities for Kotak’s data platform. The team will also be center for Data Engineering excellence driving trainings and knowledge sharing sessions with large data consumer base within Kotak.
Data Engineering
This team will own data pipelines for thousands of datasets, be skilled to source data from 100+ source systems and enable data consumptions for 30+ data analytics products. The team will learn and built data models in a config based and programmatic and think big to build one of the most leveraged data model for financial orgs. This team will also enable centralized reporting for Kotak Bank which cuts across multiple products and dimensions. Additionally, the data build by this team will be consumed by 20K + branch consumers, RMs, Branch Managers and all analytics usecases.
Data Governance
The team will be central data governance team for Kotak bank managing Metadata platforms, Data Privacy, Data Security, Data Stewardship and Data Quality platform.
If you’ve right data skills and are ready for building data lake solutions from scratch for high concurrency systems involving multiple systems then this is the team for you.
You day to day role will include
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS for Data Engineer/ SDE in Data
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS