| Skill / Category |
Mandatory / Non-Mandatory |
Evaluation Focus |
Rationale |
| GCP Data Platform Engineering & Operations |
Mandatory |
Design, deployment and operational support of cloud-native data platforms, infrastructure and platform services |
Core platform ownership responsibility. |
| Kafka & Streaming Data Platform Engineering |
Mandatory |
Topics, producers, consumers, schema management, throughput optimization, lag management, resilience and platform monitoring |
Critical for event-driven data integration and real-time processing. |
| Data Pipeline Engineering & Data Integration |
Mandatory |
Data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration patterns and operational support Database operations, scalability, performance tuning, backup, recovery and high availability Data validation, reconciliation controls, quality monitoring and issue resolution processes BigQuery & Cloud-Native Analytics Platform Engineering |
Core capability for data movement across the ecosystem. |
| Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation |
Mandatory |
Automated provisioning, configuration management and platform lifecycle management |
Enables scalable and consistent platform deployment. |
| CI/CD Engineering & Data Platform Release Automation ( Harness Exposure ) |
Mandatory |
Automated deployment, testing and operational workflows supporting data platforms |
Improves engineering efficiency and operational reliability. |
| Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) for Data Services |
Mandatory |
Metrics, logs, traces, pipeline monitoring, health dashboards and actionable alerting Production readiness, operational support, root cause analysis and continuous improvement Scalability planning, resilience testing, disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness Reliability engineering, toil reduction, operational excellence and service performance optimization Service measurement, error budgets, reliability targets and operational health indicators End-to-end monitoring, tracing, platform telemetry and operational insights Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Observability Tooling |
Essential for proactive platform support and issue detection. |