Data Engineering Lead

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.

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.

Data Engineer

Data Lakehouse & Platform Engineering 

About the Role

We are hiring Data Engineer to own the lifecycle of our enterprise Data Lakehouse platform. We are looking for engineers who think in systems, make platform-level design decisions, and can build and operate a production-grade, multi-source lakehouse from the ground up, covering ingestion through consumption across a complex, multi-cloud source landscape.

You will be the technical authority for a platform that consolidates data from 18+ enterprise products (Costpoint, GovWin, Specpoint, Vantagepoint, and others) into a governed, medallion-architected data lake on AWS S3 with Apache Iceberg table format, orchestrated via AWS Step Functions, and queryable through AWS Athena and Trino. This role is end-to-end: you own ingestion, transformation, quality, orchestration, ML data supply, and BI consumption.

Key Responsibilities

•      Architect and evolve the full medallion lakehouse — Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers — on AWS S3 with Apache Iceberg; own schema design, partitioning, compaction, and retention policies.

•      Design and implement scalable Glue ETL (PySpark) pipelines for bronze_to_silver and silver_to_gold transformations, incorporating dbt for SQL-layer transformations where appropriate.

•      Own and extend CDC ingestion via Fivetran; manage schema evolution, connector health, and sync reliability across 18+ source products.

•      Build and maintain AWS Step Functions state machines and EventBridge schedules for end-to-end pipeline orchestration; implement Lambda-based quality and drift monitors.

•      Govern the Glue Catalog and Lake Formation policies; enforce column-level security, row-level access controls, and audit logging to meet SOC2 and regulatory requirements.

•      Architect the query layer — optimize Athena workgroups and partition pruning; plan and execute Trino-on-EKS deployment for sub-second analytics workloads.

•      Partner with data science teams on SageMaker data supply: feature engineering pipelines, training dataset preparation, and model registry integration.

•      Implement real-time and near-real-time streaming solutions using Kafka or Kinesis where sub-13-minute latency is required.

•      Lead platform modernization initiatives: evaluate emerging formats (Iceberg vs. Delta Lake vs. Hudi), tooling, and cost optimization strategies.

•      Establish and enforce data engineering best practices: code reviews, CI/CD for pipeline code, IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation), and incident response runbooks.

•      Mentor and level up junior and mid-level data engineers; define team standards for pipeline design, testing, and documentation.

Required Qualifications

•      Software or data engineering experience, with at least 4 years in an architect or technical lead capacity designing large-scale cloud data platforms.

•      Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS data services: S3, Glue (PySpark ETL), Athena, Step Functions, Lambda, EventBridge, Lake Formation, SageMaker, and CloudWatch.

•      Production experience with Apache Iceberg (or Delta Lake / Hudi) table formats — compaction, snapshot management, schema evolution, and time travel.

•      Strong PySpark and Python skills; ability to write, review, and optimize distributed data processing jobs at scale.

•      Hands-on experience with CDC-based ingestion platforms (Fivetran, Debezium, or equivalent) across heterogeneous source systems.

•      Proven experience designing and implementing medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) or equivalent multi-hop lakehouse architectures.

•      Experience with data pipeline orchestration: AWS Step Functions, Apache Airflow, or equivalent; event-driven pipeline design patterns.

•      Strong SQL skills; experience with Athena, Trino, Presto, or equivalent query engines for large-scale analytical workloads.

•      Familiarity with data governance tooling: catalog management (Glue Catalog, Apache Polaris/Iceberg REST), data lineage, access controls, and audit frameworks.

•      Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) for data platform provisioning and drift management.

•      Solid understanding of dimensional modeling, schema design (star/snowflake), and data normalization for BI and analytics workloads.

•      Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

•      Experience operating Trino or PrestoDB on Kubernetes (EKS); tuning for sub-second query latency and multi-tenant workloads.

•      Familiarity with streaming platforms (Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub) and real-time lakehouse patterns.

•      Experience with Apache Polaris or other Iceberg REST catalog implementations.

•      Exposure to SageMaker MLOps pipelines, Model Registry, and feature store patterns for ML data supply.

•      Experience with dbt (data build tool) for SQL-layer transformation and documentation in lakehouse environments.

•      Government contracting or ERP domain knowledge (Costpoint, Deltek, Oracle, or similar enterprise platforms) is a strong plus.

•      AWS certifications: Data Engineer Associate, Solutions Architect Professional, or equivalent.

What You Will Build

You will be a founding architect of a strategic, cross-product data platform that serves 18+ enterprise applications and their analytics, ML, and AI workloads. The decisions you make on schema, storage format, query layer, governance, and orchestration will shape the data foundation of the company for years. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role with direct visibility to senior leadership.

4 - 10 years of experience in designing and buildingarchitecting highly resilient data platforms 

∙Strong knowledge of data engineering, architecture and data modeling 

∙Experience in platforms like Databricks and Snowflake 

∙Experience on building applications on cloud (AWS or Azure or Google Cloud) 

∙Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

∙Prior experience in developing data or computation intensive (e.g. grid based) backend applications is an 

advantage 

∙OOP design skills with an understanding or at least personal interest towards the concepts of Functional 

Programming  

∙Willingness to understand and enhance other people’s code, being able to work in an environment where 

developers will oversee and work on wider components also dealing with older “legacy” code 

∙Strong programming skills (Java/ Scala / Python) skills with the willingness to pick up the other language if not 

already mastered at a sufficient level is important 

∙Spring knowledge is an advantage, but in general willingness to learn, work with and even enhance in-house 

developed frameworks is a must 

∙Prior experience in working with Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, working with PR-s, using JIRA, following the Scrum Agile 

methodology is an advantage 

∙Prior knowledge of financial products is an advantage 

∙Bachelors or Masters in any relevant field of IT/Engineering area is an advantage  

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.

About AuxoAI:

AuxoAI is a global platform-based services firm. We help companies—turn their strategies into practical digital and AI solutions. By understanding how our clients make decisions, we use digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to drive growth, enhance their operations, improve customer experiences, and provide clear, actionable insights from their data. What We Do We work across various industries such as healthcare, high-tech, consumer packaged goods (CPG), finance etc., and in sales, marketing, and customer support functions.

We help our clients with accelerating their digital and AI journeys through:

• AI Application Development

• Data, Digital and Cloud acceleration using AI

• AI Native Product Engineering

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of prior experience in data engineering, with a strong background in AWS (Amazon Web Services) technologies. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on diverse projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, build, and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

* Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes leveraging AWS services such as S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and Redshift.

* Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand data requirements and implement solutions that support analytics and machine learning initiatives.

* Optimize data storage and retrieval mechanisms to ensure performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.

* Implement data governance and security best practices to ensure compliance and data integrity.

* Troubleshoot and debug data pipeline issues, providing timely resolution and proactive monitoring.

* Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, recommending innovative solutions to enhance data engineering capabilities.

Requirements :

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

* 6+ years of prior experience in data engineering, with a focus on designing and building data pipelines.

* Proficiency in AWS services, particularly S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and Redshift.

* Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Java, or Scala.

* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, data warehousing concepts, and big data technologies.

* Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) is a plus.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver scalable end-to-end data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, ensuring robust integration

of enterprise-wide data from diverse sources

• Build and optimize data engineering workflows using Databricks and PySpark

• Write efficient, high-performance SQL for data transformation and analysis

• Work with the Azure Cloud platform and associated services, applying strong understanding of data warehousing,

data models, and pipelines

• Provide technical leadership to a team of developers, including code reviews and enforcing best practices across the

development lifecycle

• Oversee CI/CD implementation using Azure DevOps, managing deployments across development, QA, and production

environments with proper change control processes

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions

• Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance across all pipelines and platforms

Ideal Candidate

1Strong Azure Databricks Engineer / Senior Data Engineer Profile

2Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall experience in Data Engineering, Data Development, or related data technology roles, with strong hands-on experience in enterprise data pipeline development.

3Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, including development and optimization of scalable data engineering workflows using Databricks and PySpark.

4Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have strong hands-on proficiency in PySpark/Python and SQL, with proven experience developing complex data transformations, processing workflows, and performance-optimized queries.

5Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) for designing, developing, and orchestrating end-to-end data pipelines and integrating data from multiple sources.

6Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong experience working on the Azure Cloud platform and associated data services, with solid understanding of data warehousing, data modeling, pipeline architecture, and enterprise data solutions.

7Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have hands-on experience implementing CI/CD using Azure DevOps, including deployment and release management across development, QA, and production environments.

8Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have proven technical leadership experience, including code reviews, enforcing development best practices, mentoring developers, and providing technical guidance to a data engineering team.

9Mandatory (Notice Period) – Immediate joiners or candidates who can join within 15 days.

10Mandatory (Note) - The position is open across all Cognizant offices pan India. Candidates must be willing to attend the F2F interview at the nearest Cognizant office location.

About Us:

The QX Impact was launched with a mission to make A.I accessible and affordable and deliver AI Products/Solutions at scale for the enterprises by bringing the power of Data, AI, and Engineering to drive digital transformation. We believe without insights; businesses will continue to face challenges to better understand their customers and even lose them. Secondly, without insights businesses won't’ be able to deliver differentiated products/services; and finally, without insights, businesses can’t achieve a new level of “Operational Excellence” is crucial to remain competitive, meeting rising customer expectations, expanding markets, and digitalization.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who is creative, collaborative, and adaptable to join our agile team of data scientists, engineers, and UX developers. The role focuses on building and maintaining robust data pipelines to support advanced analytics, data science, and BI solutions.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work with internal and external data, collaborate with data scientists, and contribute to the design, development, and deployment of innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain optimal data pipeline and ETL architectures.
• Map out data systems and define/design required integrations, ETL, BI, and AI systems/processes.
• Prepare and optimize data for predictive and prescriptive modeling.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate ERP data into the enterprise data lake, ensuring seamless flow and quality.
• Enhance cloud data infrastructure on AWS or Azure for scalability and performance.
• Utilize big data tools and frameworks to optimize data acquisition and preparation.
• Build architectures to move data to/from data lakes and data warehouses for advanced analytics.
• Develop and curate data models for analytics, dashboards, and reports.
• Conduct code reviews, maintain production-level code, and implement testing approaches.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve data ingestion workflows to maintain reliability and uptime.
• Drive innovation and implement efficient new approaches to data engineering tasks.

Must-Have Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working with enterprise data platforms, including building and managing data lakes.
• 3–5 years of experience designing and implementing data warehouse solutions.
• Expertise in SQL, including developing stored procedures (SP) and applying advanced data design concepts.
• Proficiency in Spark (Python/Scala) and Spark Streaming for real-time data pipelines.
• Experience with AWS or Azure services (e.g., AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Redshift, Snowflake).
• Familiarity with big data tools such as Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, or Flink.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Prefect).
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes, version control (e.g., Git, Jenkins), and deployment automation.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience in integrating ERP data into data lakes.
• Experience with traditional ETL tools (e.g., Talend, Pentaho).

Competencies:

• Tech Savvy - Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
• Self-Development - Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
• Action Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Optimize Work Processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a collaborative and agile team driving cutting-edge AI and data engineering solutions.
• Work on impactful projects that make a difference across industries.
• Opportunities for professional growth and continuous learning.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

Application Details

Ready to make an impact? Apply today and become part of the QX Impact team!

Role Overview

We are looking for a GCP Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience to design, develop, and optimize scalable cloud-based data solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in GCP, BigQuery, and advanced SQL, with experience building data pipelines and working with large-scale datasets.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes on GCP.
• Build, optimize, and maintain data solutions using Google BigQuery.
• Develop complex SQL queries for data transformation, aggregation, and analysis.
• Design efficient data models and optimize pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost.
• Integrate data from multiple sources and ensure data quality, reliability, and availability.
• Troubleshoot pipeline and data issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, application teams, and business stakeholders.
• Follow best practices for cloud security, data governance, testing, and documentation.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of Data Engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP, Django, and MongoDB
• Extensive experience with BigQuery
• Advanced SQL skills
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT and data pipeline development
• Data modeling and data warehousing experience
• Experience handling large-scale datasets and performance optimization
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills

Good to Have

• GCP services such as Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, or Cloud Functions
• Python or other data engineering languages
• Experience with data governance and security
• Agile development experience

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and real-time data ingestion and transformation.
• Develop and optimize data lake and data warehouse architectures (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
• Work with cloud platforms GCP, Azure to manage data infrastructure.
• GCP as mandatory skills
• Collaborate with analytics and product teams to understand data needs and deliver solutions.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, security, and compliance across all data systems.
• Mentor junior data engineers and contribute to best practices and code reviews.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance and resolve data-related issues.
• Automate data validation, monitoring, and alerting processes.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering with a data focus.
• Proficient in SQL and at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Scala, Java).
• Experience with modern data warehousing tools (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data lakes, and ETL/ELT design.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration tools like Airflow, dbt, or similar.
• Solid experience with cloud data platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and version control (Git).
• Experience working in a DevOps or DataOps environment.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, and cataloging tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation).
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink).
• Experience supporting machine learning workflows and data science initiatives.