About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer with 9 years of experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Glue, Redshift, Athena, and related AWS services. The role demands end-to-end ownership of data workflows, performance optimization, and delivering reliable data solutions to support business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning initiatives.
Design, build, and manage scalable and high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, PySpark, and Step Functions.
Develop and optimize data warehousing solutions using Amazon Redshift for structured and semi-structured data.
Implement efficient query solutions using Amazon Athena, Redshift Spectrum, and data lake patterns.
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance through robust validation and transformation techniques.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for data pipeline health using CloudWatch and other AWS-native tools.
Manage and orchestrate jobs via AWS Glue Workflows, Step Functions, or custom schedulers (e.g., Apache Airflow).
Tune performance for ETL jobs and SQL queries in Redshift and Athena for faster execution.
Handle data modeling, schema design, and partitioning strategies for large-scale datasets.
Stay updated with AWS data services and recommend architecture improvements and cost optimizations.
Skill
AWS Glue (ETL/PySpark)
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Athena
Data Lake (S3-based)
SQL (T-SQL, Redshift SQL)
ETL Design Data Pipelines
Data Modeling (Star, Snowflake)
AWS Lambda & Step Functions
AWS IAM, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
About Virtusa
Virtusa Corporation provides digital engineering and technology services to Forbes Global 2000 companies worldwide. Our Engineering First approach ensures we can execute all ideas and creatively solve pressing business challenges. With industry expertise and empowered agile teams, we prioritize execution early in the process for impactful results. We combine logic, creativity and curiosity to build, solve, and create. Every day, we help clients engage with new technology paradigms, creatively building solutions that solve their most pressing business challenges and move them to the forefront of their industry.
Join us at Virtusa, an equal opportunity employer that values inclusion and diversity. Check out Virtusa.com/careers to find out more.
About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer with 9 years of experience to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure on AWS. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS Glue, Redshift, Athena, and related AWS services. The role demands end-to-end ownership of data workflows, performance optimization, and delivering reliable data solutions to support business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning initiatives.
Design, build, and manage scalable and high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, PySpark, and Step Functions.
Develop and optimize data warehousing solutions using Amazon Redshift for structured and semi-structured data.
Implement efficient query solutions using Amazon Athena, Redshift Spectrum, and data lake patterns.
Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver reliable solutions.
Ensure data quality, integrity, and compliance through robust validation and transformation techniques.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for data pipeline health using CloudWatch and other AWS-native tools.
Manage and orchestrate jobs via AWS Glue Workflows, Step Functions, or custom schedulers (e.g., Apache Airflow).
Tune performance for ETL jobs and SQL queries in Redshift and Athena for faster execution.
Handle data modeling, schema design, and partitioning strategies for large-scale datasets.
Stay updated with AWS data services and recommend architecture improvements and cost optimizations.
Skill
AWS Glue (ETL/PySpark)
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Athena
Data Lake (S3-based)
SQL (T-SQL, Redshift SQL)
ETL Design Data Pipelines
Data Modeling (Star, Snowflake)
AWS Lambda & Step Functions
AWS IAM, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
About Virtusa
Virtusa Corporation provides digital engineering and technology services to Forbes Global 2000 companies worldwide. Our Engineering First approach ensures we can execute all ideas and creatively solve pressing business challenges. With industry expertise and empowered agile teams, we prioritize execution early in the process for impactful results. We combine logic, creativity and curiosity to build, solve, and create. Every day, we help clients engage with new technology paradigms, creatively building solutions that solve their most pressing business challenges and move them to the forefront of their industry.
Join us at Virtusa, an equal opportunity employer that values inclusion and diversity. Check out Virtusa.com/careers to find out more.