diff --git a/camus-etl-kafka/pom.xml b/camus-etl-kafka/pom.xml
index eec17c27e..a34b803d0 100644
--- a/camus-etl-kafka/pom.xml
+++ b/camus-etl-kafka/pom.xml
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
 			<groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
 			<artifactId>avro-mapred</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.twitter</groupId>
+			<artifactId>parquet-avro</artifactId>
+			<version>1.5.0</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
 			<artifactId>kafka_2.10</artifactId>
diff --git a/camus-etl-kafka/src/main/java/com/linkedin/camus/etl/kafka/common/ParquetRecordWriterProvider.java b/camus-etl-kafka/src/main/java/com/linkedin/camus/etl/kafka/common/ParquetRecordWriterProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a852a03e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/camus-etl-kafka/src/main/java/com/linkedin/camus/etl/kafka/common/ParquetRecordWriterProvider.java
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package com.linkedin.camus.etl.kafka.common;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordWriter;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputCommitter;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
+
+import com.linkedin.camus.coders.CamusWrapper;
+import com.linkedin.camus.etl.IEtlKey;
+import com.linkedin.camus.etl.RecordWriterProvider;
+import com.linkedin.camus.etl.kafka.mapred.EtlMultiOutputFormat;
+
+import parquet.avro.AvroParquetWriter;
+import parquet.hadoop.ParquetWriter;
+import parquet.hadoop.metadata.CompressionCodecName;
+
+/**
+ * Provides a RecordWriter that uses AvroParquetWriter to write
+ * Parquet records to HDFS. Compression settings are controlled via ETL_OUTPUT_CODEC
+ * Supports Snappy & Gzip compression codecs.
+ *
+ */
+public class ParquetRecordWriterProvider implements RecordWriterProvider {
+	public final static String EXT = ".parquet";
+
+	public ParquetRecordWriterProvider(TaskAttemptContext context) {
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public String getFilenameExtension() {
+		return EXT;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public RecordWriter<IEtlKey, CamusWrapper> getDataRecordWriter(TaskAttemptContext context, String fileName,
+			CamusWrapper data, FileOutputCommitter committer) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+
+		CompressionCodecName compressionCodecName = null;
+		int blockSize = 256 * 1024 * 1024;
+		int pageSize = 64 * 1024;
+
+		if (FileOutputFormat.getCompressOutput(context)) {
+			if ("snappy".equals(EtlMultiOutputFormat.getEtlOutputCodec(context))) {
+				compressionCodecName = CompressionCodecName.SNAPPY;
+			} else {
+				compressionCodecName = CompressionCodecName.GZIP;
+			}
+		}
+
+		Path path = committer.getWorkPath();
+		path = new Path(path, EtlMultiOutputFormat.getUniqueFile(context, fileName, EXT));
+		Schema avroSchema = ((GenericRecord) data.getRecord()).getSchema();
+		final ParquetWriter parquetWriter = new AvroParquetWriter(path, avroSchema, compressionCodecName, blockSize,
+				pageSize);
+
+		return new RecordWriter<IEtlKey, CamusWrapper>() {
+			@Override
+			public void write(IEtlKey ignore, CamusWrapper data) throws IOException {
+				parquetWriter.write(data.getRecord());
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			public void close(TaskAttemptContext arg0) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+				parquetWriter.close();
+			}
+		};
+	}
+}