Lead Data Engineer

Overview

Lead the design, delivery, and operation of scalable data pipelines and data solutions using Snowflake on AWS, Openflow, dbt, PostgreSQL, Python, and SQL. Coordinate Data Operations and support India-based data colleagues while remaining hands-on in engineering delivery.

What you'll do

• Design and deliver scalable pipelines and data solutions.
• Translate business and data requirements into technical designs and delivery plans.
• Build ingestion, orchestration, transformation, and data workloads.
• Develop reusable batch, CDC, API, and file-ingestion patterns.
• Lead Data Operations support, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Drive automated monitoring, alerting, and recovery.
• Mentor engineers and establish engineering delivery practices.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of hands-on data engineering experience.
• At least 2 years leading technical delivery or production operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent education and relevant experience.
• Production experience with a cloud data technology such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong hands-on dbt experience and advanced SQL skills.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, Terraform, and ETL/ELT design.
• Strong solution-design, communication, and technical-leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Snowflake and production pipeline experience in AWS.
• Apache NiFi or Snowflake Openflow experience.
• Relational database experience including RDS and PostgreSQL.
• Financial services or regulated-environment experience.
• Certification in Snowflake, dbt, Apache NiFi, AWS, or data management.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.
• Currently remote, with a future transition to hybrid.