Big Data Engineer

Description

We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our Data Platform team and build scalable, high-performance data platforms that power data processing, analytics, and downstream applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed data processing, ETL pipelines, and Big Data technologies, with hands-on expertise in Apache Spark and Python Scala.

You will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to build reliable, production-grade data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL and data processing pipelines for large-scale datasets.
• Build and optimize distributed data applications using Apache Spark and Python Scala.
• Develop reliable, high-performance data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Design and manage data workflows using Apache Airflow.
• Build and operate data workloads on AWS, with strong usage of Amazon S3 for large-scale data storage.
• Work with large datasets to ensure data quality, consistency, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and other platform teams to deliver robust data solutions.
• Optimize data workflows for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot production issues, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve platform performance.

Requirements

Candidates who demonstrate:

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Big Data Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Scala.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale ETL pipelines.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, particularly Amazon S3.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and scheduling.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of distributed data processing concepts.
• Experience working with batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with Databricks and the broader Databricks data platform.
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka.
• Experience working on large-scale data platforms handling high-volume data workloads.
• Exposure to additional AWS data services and cloud-native data architectures.

Description

We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our AdTech team and build scalable, high-performance data platforms that power advertising insights and analytics. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in distributed data processing, ETL pipelines, and Big Data technologies, with hands-on expertise in Spark and Scala.

You will work on designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale data pipelines while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to build reliable, production-grade data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines for large-scale data processing.
• Build and optimize distributed data applications using Spark and Scala.
• Develop reliable, high-performance data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Work with large datasets to ensure data quality, consistency, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams to deliver robust data solutions.
• Optimize data workflows for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Deploy and manage data workloads in cloud and containerized environments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continuously improve platform performance.

Requirements

Candidates who demonstrate:

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Big Data Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Scala.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Storage (GCS).
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s).
• Strong SQL skills and understanding of distributed data processing.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with AWS and cloud-native data services.
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka.
• Experience working on large-scale data platforms or AdTech systems.
• Exposure to orchestration tools such as Airflow.

Benefits

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About Us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Company Description

TECHSOPHY specializes in productizing solutions based on new technology, focusing on emerging platforms of BPM & ECM, Low Code, AI (ML/RPA/NLP). Founded in 2009, TECHSOPHY operates with headquarters in California, USA, and regional offices in Dubai, UAE, and an offshore innovation center in Hyderabad, India.

Qualifications

• Solid Fundamentals and exceptional problem-solving skills
• Solid and fluent understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Proficiency in Scala + Spark
• Proficiency in Scala + Play framework
• Experience Range: 4 to 7 Years

Requirement:

Some or all of them – because we believe intelligent people can pick up whatever they need in a short period of time. You just need to prove that you can:

• Excellent programming skills and knowledge of Java / Scala
• Excellent software design, problem-solving, and debugging skills
• Experience with modern Big Data technologies such as Spark, NoSQL, Cassandra, Kafka, MapReduce, and the Hadoop ecosystem is a must-have
• Experience with data analytics and the ability to mine data to obtain insights are much appreciated

We are looking for a Big Data Engineer to build large-scale data processing systems.

Responsibilities

• Build batch and streaming pipelines with Spark and Kafka
• Manage data in the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive)
• Write Spark jobs in Scala or PySpark
• Tune jobs for performance and cost

Requirements

• 2+ years of big data engineering
• Strong hands-on Spark experience
• Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Kafka

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain data transformation pipelines using java Spark

Develop and optimize large-scale/CPU intensive data processing using Apache Spark

Orchestrate workflows using Airflow

Implement data quality checks, testing, and monitoring for pipeline. Good to have exposer into managing metadata, cataloguing, and lineage

Support schema evolution, backfills, and incremental processing

Ensure pipelines meet SLAs for freshness, reliability, and performance

Expertise/working knowledge in Spark and HBase(semantic layer, virtual datasets, Reflections)

Required Skills & Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark

Experience with HBase/SQL or similar lakehouse query engines

Airflow 

Understanding of data catalogs and lineage (e.g., OpenLineage, DataHub, Apache Polaris , openlineage)

Proficiency in Java

Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD

Company Name – Wissen Technology

Group of companies in India – Wissen Technology & Wissen Infotech

Work Location – Whitefield, Bangalore

Website and Company profile:

www.wissen.com

LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology/

While you may already know about Wissen and the company history, here is a quick rundown for you.

About Wissen Technology:

·    The Wissen Group was founded in the year 2000. Wissen Technology, a part of Wissen Group, was established in the year 2015.

·    Wissen Technology is a specialized technology company that delivers high-end consulting for organizations in the Banking & Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare domains. We help clients build world class products.

·    Our workforce has highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like Wharton, MIT, IITs, IIMs, and NITs and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.

·    Wissen Technology has grown its revenues by 400% in these five years without any external funding or investments.

·    Globally present with offices US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

·    We offer an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.

·    Wissen Technology has been certified as a Great Place to Work®.

·    Wissen Technology has been voted as the Top 20 AI/ML vendor by CIO Insider in 2020.

·    Over the years, Wissen Group has successfully delivered $650 million worth of projects for more than 20 of the Fortune 500 companies.

·    We have served client across sectors like Banking, Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Energy. They include likes of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, MSCI, StateStreet, Flipkart, Swiggy, Trafigura, GE to name a few.

About Role :

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data transformation pipelines using java Spark
• Develop and optimize large-scale/CPU intensive data processing using Apache Spark
• Orchestrate workflows using Airflow
• Implement data quality checks, testing, and monitoring for pipeline. Good to have exposer into managing metadata, cataloguing, and lineage
• Support schema evolution, backfills, and incremental processing
• Ensure pipelines meet SLAs for freshness, reliability, and performance
• Expertise/working knowledge in Spark and HBase(semantic layer, virtual datasets, Reflections)

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with 
• HBase
• Apache Spark
• Experience with HBase or similar lakehouse query engines
• Airflow 
• Understanding of data catalogs and lineage (e.g., OpenLineage, DataHub, Apache Polaris , openlineage)
• Proficiency in Java
• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD

Nice-to-Have Skills

• OpenTable format/Iceberg ,Apache Arrow
• CDC-based analytics pipelines
• Cloud platforms (AWS)
• Kubernetes-based data platforms

Job Title : Senior Data Engineer – Databricks

Experience : 14 to 20 Years

Location : HSR Layout, Bangalore

Work Mode : Hybrid – 3 Days WFO

Shift : 11:30 AM – 07:30 PM IST

Positions : 2

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners Only

Interview : 1 Technical Round + 2 Client Rounds

Role Overview :

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to build and lead enterprise-scale data platforms for a Switzerland-based commodity client.

The role requires a strong hands-on Data Engineering professional with expertise in Databricks, PySpark, Python, SQL, and AWS, along with technical leadership and stakeholder management experience.

Must-Have Skills :

• 14 to 20 years of Data Engineering experience
• Databricks & Apache Spark / PySpark
• Python & SQL
• AWS Cloud
• Lakehouse Architecture
• ETL / ELT & Distributed Data Processing
• Batch & Streaming Pipelines
• Data Pipeline Optimization & Data Modeling
• CDC & Incremental Processing
• Git, CI/CD & Testing
• Data Quality, Monitoring & Observability
• Technical Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and build scalable data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, Python, SQL, and AWS.
• Own data products from design through production.
• Develop batch / streaming pipelines and reusable ETL / ELT frameworks.
• Optimize pipelines for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Design scalable data architectures and data models.
• Implement data quality, monitoring, lineage, and CI/CD practices.
• Lead technical discussions and mentor engineering teams.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, product owners, and engineering teams.
• Remain hands-on while providing technical leadership.

Ideal Candidate :

A 14 to 20 years experienced, hands-on Data Engineering leader with strong Databricks + PySpark + AWS expertise, excellent communication, stakeholder management, and experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms.

🔴 Super Urgent : Only Bangalore-based immediate joiners.

Responsibilities and JD

Job Description: We are looking for a Senior Developer with strong expertise in PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake to build scalable data engineering solutions and enterprise data platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake.
2. Develop batch and real-time data processing solutions for structured and semi-structured data.
3. Build and optimize Databricks notebooks, workflows, and Delta Lake solutions.
4. Design and implement Snowflake databases, schemas, views, stored procedures, tasks, and streams.
5. Develop scalable data models, data marts, and data warehouse solutions.
6. Optimize PySpark jobs, Databricks workloads, and Snowflake queries for performance and cost efficiency.
7. Implement data quality, validation, governance, and security controls.
8. Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions.
9. Manage source control and CI/CD deployments using Git and Azure DevOps.
10. Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and ensure pipeline reliability.
11. Mentor junior team members and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.

Required Skills: PySpark, Databricks, Snowflake, Python, SQL.

Experience: 5+ years of Data Engineering experience with strong hands-on expertise in PySpark, Databricks, and Snowflake.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Python, PySpark, and SQL to build scalable, high-performance data engineering solutions. You’ll architect and develop large scale, high-performance data pipelines capable of handling massive real-time and batch data volumes across multiple business systems. Databricks is the core enterprise data and processing platform for this role. You will also use Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and dbt for ELT transformations, and will contribute to designing reliable, secure, and governed data platforms that enable analytics, reporting, and AI-driven use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement large-scale data pipelines using Python/PySpark, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Develop and optimize data processing workloads in Databricks using PySpark and Spark SQL, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Develop and maintain dbt models including layered architecture, incremental models, snapshots, macros, testing, and documentation.
• Design, develop, and maintain Apache Airflow DAGs for orchestrating reliable, scalable, and observable data pipelines.
• Design and implement data quality, observability, and governance frameworks, including automated testing, monitoring, lineage, access control, and data privacy standards.
• Partner with analytics, product, and business stakeholders to turn requirements into trustworthy datasets, and raise the engineering bar through design discussions, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in Python for developing scalable, modular, and production-ready data engineering applications.
• Strong expertise in PySpark, including DataFrame API, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, partitioning strategies, joins, caching, handling data skew, and Spark performance optimization.
• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks for data ingestion, transformation, processing, and optimization, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, notebooks, jobs, and Databricks-native data engineering capabilities.
• Strong experience in Databricks/Spark performance tuning, including query and job optimization, partitioning, file sizing, caching, join optimization, handling data skew, and efficient use of compute resources.
• Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, including transactional data processing, schema management, incremental data processing, and reliable batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience in developing dbt projects using layered architecture, incremental models, snapshots, macros/Jinja, testing, documentation, and deployment best practices.
• Expertise in advanced SQL and data modelling — dimensional modeling, slowly changing dimensions, schema evolution, and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience in developing and managing Apache Airflow DAGs, scheduling workflows, dependency management, retries, backfills, and operational monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently with business and analytics stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on exposure to Microsoft Fabric for data integration and analytics.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) as part of a development workflow.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Domain expertise in financial services.

About the Role

You'll be at the forefront of designing and implementing robust data platform solutions that power advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning. Working with modern cloud technologies, you'll build scalable data foundations that enable clients to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build scalable data pipelines using Snowflake, AWS, GCP, and Databricks.
• Design and optimize data models for AI and machine learning workloads.
• Develop reliable data foundations for MLOps, governance, and data lineage.
• Integrate data from multiple sources into modern data platforms.
• Leverage Snowpark ML and Snowflake's native AI capabilities.
• Ensure data platforms are secure, scalable, and high-performing.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of cloud storage services such as S3, ADLS, or GCS.
• Strong understanding of Dimensional Modeling and Data Vault.
• Experience with Scala or Java is a plus.

Tech Stack

• Data Warehouse: Snowflake
• Programming: SQL, Python, Scala (Good to Have), Java (Good to Have)
• Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Storage: S3, ADLS, GCS
• AI/ML: Snowpark ML, MLOps

Perks & Benefits

• Public Speaking & Communication Program
• Mentoring Program with Senior Support Leads
• 360° Progress Reviews
• Weekly Learning Sessions & Guilds
• Paid Certifications
• Hackathons & Innovation Days
• Recognition & Rewards Programs
• Team Socials & Annual Offsites
• Employee Assistance Program (24/7 Wellbeing Support)

The Data People Shaping Tomorrow

Our client helps organizations unlock the power of data through modern cloud, analytics, and AI solutions. We believe in creating an environment where talented technologists can learn, innovate, and make a real impact while building cutting-edge data platforms for global clients. If you're passionate about data engineering and want to work with the latest technologies in AI, cloud, and analytics, we'd love to hear from you.