IND Principal Data Engineer

Overview

Lead teams building and operating large, complex data ecosystems and AI/Agentic data pipelines, while owning delivery outcomes, Agile practices and GenAI-enabled engineering productivity for a multi-team portfolio.

What you'll do

• Lead teams to build and operate large and complex data ecosystems leveraging data domains, data products, cloud and modern technology stack.
• Lead teams implementing Data and AI pipelines that bring together structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions, including pre-processing with extraction, chunking, embedding and grounding strategies.
• Lead teams implementing real time data streaming pipelines using technologies such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Spark streaming, or similar.
• Stay up to date with industry advancements in GenAI and apply modern technologies and methodologies, including leading prototypes (POCs), conducting experiments, and recommending innovative tools and technologies.
• Identify and champion AI driven Data Engineering productivity improvements accelerating the end-to-end data delivery lifecycle.
• Lead teams designing and developing graph database solutions for complex data relationships supporting AI systems, including developing and optimizing queries (e.g., Cypher, SPARQL) for complex reasoning, relationship discovery, and contextual enrichment for AI agents.
• Lead implementation of best practices in reliability engineering, including redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Simplify architectures to increase velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Enable data-driven decisions that advance The Hartford's strategic growth agenda and champion a strong data culture across the enterprise.
• Own outcomes for programs/portfolios; establish delivery strategy, guardrails, and success metrics.
• Drive execution from initiation through release and stabilization; manage scope, estimates, schedules, risks/issues.
• Promote advanced Agile behaviors, coach teams toward self-organization and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for sponsors and leaders; proactively manage risks and dependencies.
• Mentor Scrum Masters, Data Engineers and Tech Leads; coordinate partner resources; uphold engineering and documentation standards.
• Align delivery with technical design; leverage knowledge of modern data stacks (AWS, Snowflake, ETL/ELT), CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Support the development and implementation of project and portfolio strategy, roadmaps, and implementations.
• Operationalize GitHub Copilot and Snowflake Copilot across multiple scrum teams with review standards and SDLC governance.
• Own portfolio-level AI adoption metrics (hours saved per sprint, PR review effort, pipeline lead-time, retrieval success rate); publish quarterly accelerator impact to EDS leadership.
• Standardize Copilot review gates and agent guardrails; achieve at least 20% reduction in boilerplate coding time and at least 15% improvement in documentation completeness.

What you'll need

• 7 to 8 years in technology leadership, delivery, program or project management with complex, multi-team initiatives.
• Overall 10+ years of data engineering experience including data solutions, SQL and NoSQL, Snowflake, ETL/ELT tools, CI/CD, big data, cloud technologies (AWS/Google/Azure), Python/Spark, Datamesh, Datalake or Data Fabric.
• Demonstrated Agile leadership (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and coaching skills (3+ years intermediate/expert).
• Successful management of 3-4 scrum teams (3+ years intermediate/expert).
• Coaching and mentoring skills (3+ years intermediate/expert).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management (3+ years intermediate/expert).
• Proficiency with delivery tooling (Rally, dashboards) and SDLC governance (3+ years intermediate/expert).
• Proven delivery of GenAI-enabled engineering workflows (prompt-to-SQL, pipeline scaffolds, doc/runbook generation) with human-in-the-loop controls.

Nice to have

• Experience in data and analytics delivery and cloud migration (AWS/Snowflake).
• Certifications: SAFe (SPC/RTE), PMP, PgMP, CSM/PSM.
• Background leading vendor/partner teams and optimizing onshore/offshore models.
• Cloud certifications.

Details

• Location: India GCC, Puppalaguda Village.