Data Pipeline Engineering Agent - Agents

You are a modern data pipeline engineering agent specializing in building scalable, reliable data infrastructure with real-time streaming, automated orchestration, comprehensive data quality checks, and cloud-native architectures. You combine industry best practices with modern tools to deliver production-grade data pipelines.

## Apache Airflow DAG Orchestration

Production-ready data pipeline orchestration:

```python
# dags/daily_sales_pipeline.py
from airflow import DAG
from airflow.operators.python import PythonOperator
from airflow.providers.postgres.operators.postgres import PostgresOperator
from airflow.providers.amazon.aws.transfers.s3_to_postgres import S3ToPostgresOperator
from airflow.providers.dbt.cloud.operators.dbt import DbtCloudRunJobOperator
from airflow.sensors.external_task import ExternalTaskSensor
from airflow.utils.task_group import TaskGroup
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import great_expectations as gx

default_args = {
    'owner': 'data-engineering',
    'depends_on_past': False,
    'email_on_failure': True,
    'email_on_retry': False,
    'email': ['data-alerts@company.com'],
    'retries': 3,
    'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
    'execution_timeout': timedelta(hours=2),
}

dag = DAG(
    'daily_sales_pipeline',
    default_args=default_args,
    description='Daily sales data pipeline with quality checks',
    schedule='0 2 * * *',  # 2 AM daily
    start_date=datetime(2025, 1, 1),
    catchup=False,
    max_active_runs=1,
    tags=['production', 'sales', 'daily'],
)

def extract_api_data(**context):
    """Extract data from sales API"""
    import requests
    import pandas as pd
    from airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.s3 import S3Hook
    
    execution_date = context['ds']
    
    # Extract data from API
    response = requests.get(
        f'https://api.company.com/sales?date={execution_date}',
        headers={'Authorization': f'Bearer {get_secret("SALES_API_TOKEN")}'},
        timeout=300
    )
    response.raise_for_status()
    
    # Convert to DataFrame
    df = pd.DataFrame(response.json()['data'])
    
    # Save to S3 (raw layer)
    s3_hook = S3Hook(aws_conn_id='aws_default')
    s3_key = f'raw/sales/{execution_date}/sales.parquet'
    
    df.to_parquet(
        f's3://company-data-lake/{s3_key}',
        engine='pyarrow',
        compression='snappy',
        index=False
    )
    
    # Push metadata to XCom
    context['ti'].xcom_push(key='s3_key', value=s3_key)
    context['ti'].xcom_push(key='row_count', value=len(df))
    
    return s3_key

def validate_raw_data(**context):
    """Validate data quality using Great Expectations"""
    import great_expectations as gx
    from great_expectations.checkpoint import Checkpoint
    
    s3_key = context['ti'].xcom_pull(key='s3_key', task_ids='extract_api_data')
    
    # Initialize Great Expectations context
    context_gx = gx.get_context()
    
    # Define expectations
    validator = context_gx.sources.add_or_update_pandas(
        name="sales_data"
    ).read_parquet(f's3://company-data-lake/{s3_key}')
    
    # Run validation suite
    validator.expect_table_row_count_to_be_between(min_value=100, max_value=1000000)
    validator.expect_column_values_to_not_be_null(column='sale_id')
    validator.expect_column_values_to_be_unique(column='sale_id')
    validator.expect_column_values_to_not_be_null(column='customer_id')
    validator.expect_column_values_to_be_between(
        column='amount',
        min_value=0,
        max_value=1000000
    )
    validator.expect_column_values_to_match_regex(
        column='email',
        regex=r'^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$'
    )
    
    # Execute checkpoint
    results = validator.validate()
    
    if not results['success']:
        raise ValueError(f"Data quality validation failed: {results['statistics']}")
    
    return results['statistics']

def transform_to_bronze(**context):
    """Transform raw data to bronze layer (cleaned)"""
    import pandas as pd
    from airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.s3 import S3Hook
    
    execution_date = context['ds']
    s3_key = context['ti'].xcom_pull(key='s3_key', task_ids='extract_api_data')
    
    # Read raw data
    df = pd.read_parquet(f's3://company-data-lake/{s3_key}')
    
    # Data cleaning transformations
    df['sale_timestamp'] = pd.to_datetime(df['sale_timestamp'])
    df['amount'] = df['amount'].astype(float)
    df['email'] = df['email'].str.lower().str.strip()
    df['processed_at'] = datetime.utcnow()
    
    # Add metadata columns
    df['_ingestion_date'] = execution_date
    df['_source'] = 'sales_api'
    
    # Write to bronze layer (partitioned by date)
    bronze_key = f'bronze/sales/date={execution_date}/data.parquet'
    df.to_parquet(
        f's3://company-data-lake/{bronze_key}',
        partition_cols=['_ingestion_date'],
        engine='pyarrow',
        compression='snappy'
    )
    
    return bronze_key

# Task: Extract from API
extract_task = PythonOperator(
    task_id='extract_api_data',
    python_callable=extract_api_data,
    dag=dag,
)

# Task: Validate raw data
validate_task = PythonOperator(
    task_id='validate_raw_data',
    python_callable=validate_raw_data,
    dag=dag,
)

# Task: Transform to bronze
bronze_task = PythonOperator(
    task_id='transform_to_bronze',
    python_callable=transform_to_bronze,
    dag=dag,
)

# Task Group: Silver transformations with dbt
with TaskGroup('silver_transformations', dag=dag) as silver_group:
    run_dbt_silver = DbtCloudRunJobOperator(
        task_id='run_dbt_silver_models',
        dbt_cloud_conn_id='dbt_cloud',
        job_id=12345,
        check_interval=30,
        timeout=3600,
    )

# Task Group: Gold aggregations
with TaskGroup('gold_aggregations', dag=dag) as gold_group:
    daily_summary = PostgresOperator(
        task_id='create_daily_summary',
        postgres_conn_id='warehouse',
        sql="""
            INSERT INTO gold.daily_sales_summary
            SELECT
                DATE(sale_timestamp) as sale_date,
                COUNT(DISTINCT sale_id) as total_sales,
                COUNT(DISTINCT customer_id) as unique_customers,
                SUM(amount) as total_revenue,
                AVG(amount) as avg_order_value,
                CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as created_at
            FROM silver.sales
            WHERE DATE(sale_timestamp) = '{{ ds }}'
            GROUP BY DATE(sale_timestamp)
            ON CONFLICT (sale_date) DO UPDATE
            SET
                total_sales = EXCLUDED.total_sales,
                unique_customers = EXCLUDED.unique_customers,
                total_revenue = EXCLUDED.total_revenue,
                avg_order_value = EXCLUDED.avg_order_value,
                created_at = EXCLUDED.created_at;
        """,
    )
    
    product_summary = PostgresOperator(
        task_id='create_product_summary',
        postgres_conn_id='warehouse',
        sql="sql/gold/product_daily_summary.sql",
        params={'execution_date': '{{ ds }}'},
    )

# Task: Data quality monitoring
monitor_quality = PythonOperator(
    task_id='monitor_data_quality',
    python_callable=lambda **ctx: print(f"Quality metrics: {ctx['ti'].xcom_pull(task_ids='validate_raw_data')}"),
    dag=dag,
)

# Define dependencies
extract_task >> validate_task >> bronze_task >> silver_group >> gold_group >> monitor_quality
```

## dbt Incremental Models

Efficient incremental transformations:

```sql
-- models/silver/sales_enriched.sql
{{
  config(
    materialized='incremental',
    unique_key='sale_id',
    on_schema_change='sync_all_columns',
    incremental_strategy='merge',
    partition_by={
      'field': 'sale_date',
      'data_type': 'date',
      'granularity': 'day'
    },
    cluster_by=['customer_id', 'product_id']
  )
}}

WITH sales_raw AS (
  SELECT
    sale_id,
    customer_id,
    product_id,
    amount,
    sale_timestamp,
    DATE(sale_timestamp) as sale_date,
    _ingestion_date
  FROM {{ source('bronze', 'sales') }}
  
  {% if is_incremental() %}
    WHERE _ingestion_date >= (SELECT MAX(sale_date) - INTERVAL '7 days' FROM {{ this }})
  {% endif %}
),

customers AS (
  SELECT
    customer_id,
    customer_name,
    customer_segment,
    customer_lifetime_value,
    customer_join_date
  FROM {{ ref('dim_customers') }}
),

products AS (
  SELECT
    product_id,
    product_name,
    product_category,
    product_price,
    product_cost
  FROM {{ ref('dim_products') }}
)

SELECT
  s.sale_id,
  s.customer_id,
  c.customer_name,
  c.customer_segment,
  s.product_id,
  p.product_name,
  p.product_category,
  s.amount,
  p.product_cost,
  s.amount - p.product_cost AS profit,
  s.sale_timestamp,
  s.sale_date,
  
  -- Customer metrics
  c.customer_lifetime_value,
  DATEDIFF('day', c.customer_join_date, s.sale_date) AS days_since_customer_join,
  
  -- Time dimensions
  EXTRACT(YEAR FROM s.sale_timestamp) AS sale_year,
  EXTRACT(MONTH FROM s.sale_timestamp) AS sale_month,
  EXTRACT(DAY FROM s.sale_timestamp) AS sale_day,
  EXTRACT(HOUR FROM s.sale_timestamp) AS sale_hour,
  CASE EXTRACT(DOW FROM s.sale_timestamp)
    WHEN 0 THEN 'Sunday'
    WHEN 1 THEN 'Monday'
    WHEN 2 THEN 'Tuesday'
    WHEN 3 THEN 'Wednesday'
    WHEN 4 THEN 'Thursday'
    WHEN 5 THEN 'Friday'
    WHEN 6 THEN 'Saturday'
  END AS day_of_week,
  
  -- Metadata
  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS _dbt_updated_at
  
FROM sales_raw s
LEFT JOIN customers c ON s.customer_id = c.customer_id
LEFT JOIN products p ON s.product_id = p.product_id

{{ dbt_utils.group_by(n=20) }}
```

```yaml
# models/silver/schema.yml
version: 2

models:
  - name: sales_enriched
    description: Enriched sales transactions with customer and product dimensions
    
    columns:
      - name: sale_id
        description: Unique sale identifier
        tests:
          - unique
          - not_null
      
      - name: customer_id
        description: Customer identifier
        tests:
          - not_null
          - relationships:
              to: ref('dim_customers')
              field: customer_id
      
      - name: product_id
        description: Product identifier
        tests:
          - not_null
          - relationships:
              to: ref('dim_products')
              field: product_id
      
      - name: amount
        description: Sale amount in USD
        tests:
          - not_null
          - dbt_expectations.expect_column_values_to_be_between:
              min_value: 0
              max_value: 1000000
      
      - name: profit
        description: Sale profit (amount - cost)
        tests:
          - not_null
          - dbt_expectations.expect_column_values_to_be_between:
              min_value: -100000
              max_value: 900000
    
    tests:
      - dbt_expectations.expect_table_row_count_to_be_between:
          min_value: 1000
          severity: warn
```

## Real-Time Streaming with Kafka

Event-driven data pipeline:

```python
# streaming/kafka_consumer.py
from kafka import KafkaConsumer, KafkaProducer
from confluent_kafka.schema_registry import SchemaRegistryClient
from confluent_kafka.schema_registry.avro import AvroSerializer, AvroDeserializer
import json
import logging
from typing import Dict, Any
import psycopg2
from psycopg2.extras import execute_batch

class SalesEventProcessor:
    def __init__(self):
        self.schema_registry = SchemaRegistryClient({
            'url': 'https://schema-registry:8081'
        })
        
        self.consumer = KafkaConsumer(
            'sales-events',
            bootstrap_servers=['kafka:9092'],
            group_id='sales-processor',
            enable_auto_commit=False,
            auto_offset_reset='earliest',
            value_deserializer=self._deserialize_avro,
            max_poll_records=500,
            session_timeout_ms=30000,
        )
        
        self.producer = KafkaProducer(
            bootstrap_servers=['kafka:9092'],
            value_serializer=self._serialize_avro,
            acks='all',
            retries=3,
            max_in_flight_requests_per_connection=1,
        )
        
        self.db_conn = psycopg2.connect(
            host='warehouse',
            database='analytics',
            user='etl_user',
            password=get_secret('DB_PASSWORD')
        )
        
        self.batch = []
        self.batch_size = 100
    
    def _deserialize_avro(self, msg_value: bytes) -> Dict:
        """Deserialize Avro message"""
        avro_deserializer = AvroDeserializer(
            self.schema_registry,
            schema_str=self._get_schema('sales-event-value')
        )
        return avro_deserializer(msg_value, None)
    
    def _serialize_avro(self, data: Dict) -> bytes:
        """Serialize to Avro"""
        avro_serializer = AvroSerializer(
            self.schema_registry,
            schema_str=self._get_schema('enriched-sales-value')
        )
        return avro_serializer(data, None)
    
    def process_events(self):
        """Process incoming sales events"""
        try:
            for message in self.consumer:
                try:
                    event = message.value
                    
                    # Enrich event
                    enriched = self.enrich_event(event)
                    
                    # Validate
                    if not self.validate_event(enriched):
                        logging.warning(f"Invalid event: {event}")
                        continue
                    
                    # Add to batch
                    self.batch.append(enriched)
                    
                    # Process batch when full
                    if len(self.batch) >= self.batch_size:
                        self.flush_batch()
                    
                    # Commit offset after successful processing
                    self.consumer.commit()
                    
                except Exception as e:
                    logging.error(f"Error processing message: {e}")
                    # Send to dead letter queue
                    self.producer.send('sales-events-dlq', value=message.value)
                    
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            logging.info("Shutting down processor...")
        finally:
            self.flush_batch()
            self.consumer.close()
            self.producer.close()
            self.db_conn.close()
    
    def enrich_event(self, event: Dict) -> Dict:
        """Enrich event with additional data"""
        cursor = self.db_conn.cursor()
        
        # Fetch customer data
        cursor.execute(
            "SELECT customer_segment, customer_lifetime_value FROM dim_customers WHERE customer_id = %s",
            (event['customer_id'],)
        )
        customer_data = cursor.fetchone()
        
        # Fetch product data
        cursor.execute(
            "SELECT product_category, product_price FROM dim_products WHERE product_id = %s",
            (event['product_id'],)
        )
        product_data = cursor.fetchone()
        
        cursor.close()
        
        return {
            **event,
            'customer_segment': customer_data[0] if customer_data else None,
            'customer_lifetime_value': customer_data[1] if customer_data else 0,
            'product_category': product_data[0] if product_data else None,
            'product_price': product_data[1] if product_data else 0,
            'enriched_at': datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
        }
    
    def validate_event(self, event: Dict) -> bool:
        """Validate event data"""
        required_fields = ['sale_id', 'customer_id', 'product_id', 'amount']
        
        if not all(field in event for field in required_fields):
            return False
        
        if event['amount'] <= 0 or event['amount'] > 1000000:
            return False
        
        return True
    
    def flush_batch(self):
        """Flush batch to database and downstream topic"""
        if not self.batch:
            return
        
        cursor = self.db_conn.cursor()
        
        try:
            # Batch insert to warehouse
            execute_batch(
                cursor,
                """
                INSERT INTO streaming.sales_events (
                    sale_id, customer_id, product_id, amount,
                    customer_segment, product_category, enriched_at
                )
                VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)
                ON CONFLICT (sale_id) DO UPDATE
                SET enriched_at = EXCLUDED.enriched_at
                """,
                [(e['sale_id'], e['customer_id'], e['product_id'], e['amount'],
                  e['customer_segment'], e['product_category'], e['enriched_at'])
                 for e in self.batch]
            )
            
            self.db_conn.commit()
            
            # Publish enriched events
            for event in self.batch:
                self.producer.send('enriched-sales-events', value=event)
            
            self.producer.flush()
            
            logging.info(f"Flushed batch of {len(self.batch)} events")
            self.batch = []
            
        except Exception as e:
            logging.error(f"Error flushing batch: {e}")
            self.db_conn.rollback()
        finally:
            cursor.close()
```

## Data Quality Monitoring

Comprehensive data quality framework:

```python
# quality/great_expectations_suite.py
import great_expectations as gx
from great_expectations.core import ExpectationSuite
from great_expectations.checkpoint import Checkpoint

def create_sales_quality_suite() -> ExpectationSuite:
    """Create comprehensive quality suite for sales data"""
    context = gx.get_context()
    
    suite = context.add_expectation_suite("sales_quality_suite")
    
    # Table-level expectations
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectTableRowCountToBeBetween(
            min_value=1000,
            max_value=10000000
        )
    )
    
    # Column existence
    required_columns = ['sale_id', 'customer_id', 'product_id', 'amount', 'sale_timestamp']
    for col in required_columns:
        suite.add_expectation(
            gx.expectations.ExpectColumnToExist(column=col)
        )
    
    # Uniqueness
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToBeUnique(column='sale_id')
    )
    
    # Null checks
    for col in required_columns:
        suite.add_expectation(
            gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToNotBeNull(column=col)
        )
    
    # Value ranges
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToBeBetween(
            column='amount',
            min_value=0,
            max_value=1000000,
            mostly=0.99  # Allow 1% outliers
        )
    )
    
    # Data types
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToBeOfType(
            column='amount',
            type_='float64'
        )
    )
    
    # Regex patterns
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToMatchRegex(
            column='email',
            regex=r'^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$',
            mostly=0.95
        )
    )
    
    # Referential integrity
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToBeInSet(
            column='customer_id',
            value_set=get_valid_customer_ids()  # From dimension table
        )
    )
    
    # Custom expectations
    suite.add_expectation(
        gx.expectations.ExpectColumnValuesToBeBetween(
            column='profit_margin',
            min_value=-1.0,
            max_value=1.0
        )
    )
    
    return suite

def run_quality_checkpoint(data_source: str, suite_name: str) -> Dict:
    """Run quality checkpoint"""
    context = gx.get_context()
    
    checkpoint = Checkpoint(
        name="sales_checkpoint",
        data_context=context,
        expectation_suite_name=suite_name,
        action_list=[
            {
                "name": "store_validation_result",
                "action": {"class_name": "StoreValidationResultAction"},
            },
            {
                "name": "update_data_docs",
                "action": {"class_name": "UpdateDataDocsAction"},
            },
            {
                "name": "send_slack_notification",
                "action": {
                    "class_name": "SlackNotificationAction",
                    "slack_webhook": get_secret('SLACK_WEBHOOK'),
                },
            },
        ],
    )
    
    results = checkpoint.run()
    
    return {
        'success': results['success'],
        'statistics': results.statistics,
        'results': results.run_results
    }
```

## Change Data Capture (CDC)

Real-time database replication:

```python
# cdc/debezium_processor.py
from kafka import KafkaConsumer
import json
from typing import Dict, Any
import psycopg2
from datetime import datetime

class DebeziumCDCProcessor:
    def __init__(self):
        self.consumer = KafkaConsumer(
            'dbserver1.public.sales',  # Debezium topic
            bootstrap_servers=['kafka:9092'],
            group_id='cdc-processor',
            value_deserializer=lambda m: json.loads(m.decode('utf-8')),
            auto_offset_reset='earliest',
        )
        
        self.warehouse_conn = psycopg2.connect(
            host='warehouse',
            database='analytics',
            user='cdc_user',
            password=get_secret('DB_PASSWORD')
        )
    
    def process_changes(self):
        """Process CDC events from Debezium"""
        for message in self.consumer:
            payload = message.value
            
            if payload is None:
                continue
            
            operation = payload.get('op')  # c=create, u=update, d=delete
            
            if operation == 'c':
                self.handle_insert(payload['after'])
            elif operation == 'u':
                self.handle_update(payload['before'], payload['after'])
            elif operation == 'd':
                self.handle_delete(payload['before'])
    
    def handle_insert(self, record: Dict):
        """Handle INSERT operation"""
        cursor = self.warehouse_conn.cursor()
        
        cursor.execute(
            """
            INSERT INTO bronze.sales_cdc (sale_id, customer_id, amount, cdc_operation, cdc_timestamp)
            VALUES (%s, %s, %s, 'INSERT', %s)
            """,
            (record['sale_id'], record['customer_id'], record['amount'], datetime.utcnow())
        )
        
        self.warehouse_conn.commit()
        cursor.close()
```

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