Data Quality Engineer

Title                                 : Senior Data & AI Quality Engineer (Ingestion · Evaluation · Testing)

Experience                    : 5+ years

Work type                      : Chennai - Work from Office/ Other Locations - Remote

Employment Type      : Full Time

Notice Period               : Immediate

Work Day                       :Mon to Fri

Key Responsibilities:

• Ingestion pipelines: Confluence, SharePoint/Microsoft 365 (Graph), and repository connectors — parsing, chunking, metadata, incremental sync, data-quality controls
• Synthetic and non-production data design: corpora shaped to banking IT content (runbooks, incidents, KB articles, change records) with realistic permission structures — the foundation of the cloud-first build
• The evaluation harness as a product: golden question sets, retrieval precision/faithfulness/citation-accuracy scoring, the zero-leakage permission suite, the zero-unauthorized-actions agent suite; CI-integrated regression gates
• Performance and load testing with the platform engineer: concurrency profiles, soak tests, degraded-mode behavior
• UAT orchestration and defect triage across both use cases; acceptance evidence packs per milestone
• Measurement reporting foundations: the before/after value metrics (time saved per incident, per search) the client's executives receive monthly

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years across data engineering and quality engineering with production Python; you have built pipelines AND the tests that police them
• LLM evaluation experience: has designed or operated retrieval/generation quality measurement with numeric thresholds (RAGAS-class metrics, custom harnesses, or equivalent) — not just eyeballed outputs
• Document-processing depth: parsing real enterprise content (tables, permissions, versions, mess), chunking trade-offs, metadata design

• Test-suite craftsmanship: negative and adversarial test design — the leakage suite is a security artifact, and you think like an attacker when writing it
• Load/performance testing experience (Locust, k6, or equivalent) and defect-triage discipline

Strongly Preferred :

Synthetic-data generation for regulated domains; Microsoft Graph and Confluence APIs; Milvus/pgvector; Splunk data onboarding; UAT facilitation with business users; banking data-handling standards

About Ampera: 

Ampera Technologies, a purpose driven Digital IT Services with primary focus on supporting our client with their Data, AI / ML, Accessibility and other Digital IT needs. We also ensure that equal opportunities are provided to Persons with Disabilities Talent. Ampera Technologies has its Global Headquarters in Chicago, USA and its Global Delivery Center is based out of Chennai, India. We are actively expanding our Tech Delivery team in Chennai and across India. We offer exciting benefits for our teams, such as 1) Hybrid and Remote work options available, 2) Opportunity to work directly with our Global Enterprise Clients, 3) Opportunity to learn and implement evolving Technologies, 4) Comprehensive healthcare, and 5) Conducive environment for Persons with Disability Talent meeting Physical and Digital Accessibility standards. 

Job Description – QA & Data Validation Engineer

Experience: 5–6 Years

Location: Pan India

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Mode: Pan India / Remote or Hybrid as applicable

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced QA & Data Validation Engineer with 5–6 years of hands-on experience in data quality assurance, solution analysis, data validation, SQL, Python, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI validation.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for validating large-scale data pipelines, performing source-to-target reconciliation, analyzing business rules, investigating data defects, and ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data across source, staging, intermediate, and target systems.

The role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills along with the ability to work closely with development, data engineering, business, and other stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

You will also contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of automated validation frameworks and utilities using Python, SQL, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Synapse.

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Key Responsibilities

1. QA & Solution Analysis

- Analyze business and technical requirements to understand data processing and validation needs.

- Participate in requirement analysis sessions and clarify functional and technical requirements with stakeholders.

- Review solution designs, data flows, mapping documents, interface specifications, and business rules.

- Validate that implemented solutions meet defined business and technical requirements.

- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, ambiguities, and potential data quality issues during requirement and solution analysis.

- Translate business requirements into detailed test scenarios, test cases, and validation conditions.

- Perform end-to-end validation of data processing workflows.

- Ensure data is accurately processed from source systems through intermediate layers to final outputs.

- Validate business rules and transformation logic implemented within data pipelines.

2. Test Planning & Execution

- Prepare comprehensive test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for data-intensive applications.

- Execute functional, integration, regression, system, and data validation testing.

- Perform positive and negative testing for different data processing scenarios.

- Validate data pipelines across multiple environments, including staging, testing, and production.

- Identify test data requirements and prepare appropriate datasets for validation.

- Execute SQL queries to validate data processing and transformation results.

- Document test results, observations, defects, and validation evidence.

- Track testing progress and communicate status, risks, issues, and dependencies to stakeholders.

3. Data Validation & Reconciliation

- Perform detailed source-to-target data validation and reconciliation.

- Validate source, intermediate, staging, and output datasets.

- Perform record count validation between source and target systems.

- Verify data completeness, consistency, accuracy, and integrity.

- Validate data transformations against defined business rules.

- Perform field-level and record-level comparisons.

- Validate data types, formats, precision, scale, and null handling.

- Verify schema structure, layout, column names, and column sequence.

- Validate mandatory and optional fields.

- Identify missing, duplicate, truncated, or incorrectly transformed records.

- Analyze invalid records, rejected records, and exception datasets.

- Verify exception and reject-handling mechanisms.

- Compare production and staging data to identify discrepancies.

- Perform reconciliation between files, databases, and reporting layers.

- Validate data across different processing stages and identify the root cause of discrepancies.

4. File & Data Processing Validation

- Validate large-scale datasets across multiple file formats.

- Perform validation of:

 - CSV files

 - Delimited files

 - Fixed-width files

 - Excel files

 - Database tables

 - Structured and semi-structured datasets

- Validate file layouts, headers, delimiters, record formats, and column sequences.

- Verify file-level and record-level counts.

- Analyze source, intermediate, and final output files.

- Validate file-to-database and database-to-file reconciliation.

- Identify incomplete, corrupted, malformed, or invalid records.

- Verify data movement and transformation between different storage locations.

- Validate Azure-to-AWS file transfer processes.

- Ensure transferred files are complete and match the expected source datasets.

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5. Defect Investigation & Root Cause Analysis

- Investigate data discrepancies and application/data pipeline defects.

- Perform detailed root cause analysis for data quality and validation failures.

- Analyze source data, transformation logic, pipeline execution, database records, and output datasets to identify defects.

- Collaborate with developers and data engineers to resolve identified issues.

- Reproduce defects and provide detailed technical evidence.

- Perform defect impact analysis.

- Conduct retesting and regression testing after defect resolution.

- Monitor recurring data quality issues and recommend preventive solutions.

- Maintain detailed defect documentation and validation results.

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6. Python Development & Automation

- Develop Python scripts and utilities for data validation and reconciliation.

- Design, develop, and maintain reusable data validation frameworks.

- Automate repetitive data comparison and validation activities.

- Build automated utilities for:

 - Record count validation

 - Data completeness checks

 - Schema validation

 - Column sequence validation

 - Source-to-target comparison

 - Duplicate detection

 - Exception identification

 - Data quality checks

 - Automated reporting

- Develop Python-based validation and reporting utilities.

- Optimize Python scripts for processing large datasets.

- Maintain and enhance existing automation frameworks.

- Implement reusable validation components to improve testing efficiency and coverage.

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7. SQL Development & Data Analysis

- Write complex SQL queries for data analysis and validation.

- Perform data extraction and comparison using SQL Server / SSMS.

- Validate source and target database records.

- Perform joins, aggregations, subqueries, CTEs, and analytical queries as required.

- Develop SQL queries to identify data mismatches, duplicates, missing records, and transformation issues.

- Validate database tables, schemas, columns, constraints, and relationships.

- Perform record count and reconciliation checks using SQL.

- Analyze SQL Server metrics databases.

- Validate data processing results against expected business rules.

- Troubleshoot data discrepancies using SQL queries.

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8. PySpark & Large-Scale Data Processing

- Develop and execute PySpark notebooks for large-scale dataset processing and validation.

- Analyze large volumes of structured and semi-structured data.

- Perform data transformation and validation using PySpark.

- Compare large source and target datasets efficiently.

- Implement data quality and reconciliation checks using PySpark.

- Analyze exception, reject, and invalid datasets.

- Optimize data validation processes for large datasets.

- Work with Azure Synapse notebooks and data processing environments.

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9. Azure Data Factory & Pipeline Testing

- Design and execute validation scenarios for Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines.

- Validate pipeline execution, data movement, transformations, and dependencies.

- Monitor pipeline runs and investigate failures.

- Validate source-to-target data movement through ADF.

- Develop and maintain test pipelines using Azure Data Factory.

- Verify pipeline parameters, triggers, activities, and execution results.

- Validate file ingestion and processing workflows.

- Perform end-to-end testing of data pipelines.

- Investigate pipeline-related data discrepancies and failures.

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10. Azure Synapse Analytics

- Work with Azure Synapse Analytics for data validation and analysis.

- Develop and execute Synapse notebooks using PySpark.

- Validate datasets processed through Synapse pipelines and notebooks.

- Perform data quality and reconciliation checks within Synapse environments.

- Analyze large-scale datasets and processing results.

- Validate data movement between Azure storage, Synapse, databases, and reporting systems.

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11. Azure Storage & Cosmos DB

- Validate data stored in Azure Storage Accounts and Containers.

- Verify file ingestion, processing, and output data.

- Perform file-level and content-level validation within Azure storage.

- Validate data processing workflows involving Azure Storage.

- Perform data validation in Azure Cosmos DB.

- Verify records, fields, formats, and data completeness within Cosmos DB.

- Investigate discrepancies between source files, Azure storage, databases, and Cosmos DB.

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12. AWS S3 & Azure-to-AWS Validation

- Validate files stored in AWS S3.

- Perform source-to-target validation for files transferred between Azure and AWS.

- Verify file counts, file names, sizes, formats, and record counts.

- Compare source files with transferred S3 files.

- Validate data integrity after cloud-to-cloud file transfers.

- Investigate missing, incomplete, duplicate, or corrupted files.

- Support end-to-end validation of Azure-to-AWS data movement processes.

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13. Metrics, Reporting & Power BI Validation

- Extract and validate source system metrics.

- Validate metrics stored in SQL Server databases.

- Perform reconciliation between source metrics, database metrics, and reporting outputs.

- Validate Power BI dashboards and reports against underlying source data.

- Verify report calculations, KPIs, measures, filters, and aggregations.

- Perform file-to-database-to-Power BI reconciliation.

- Validate data displayed in Power BI against SQL Server and source datasets.

- Identify discrepancies between backend data and dashboard results.

- Support reporting and analytics teams with data validation and troubleshooting.

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14. Production Support & Job Monitoring

- Monitor scheduled data processing jobs and pipelines.

- Perform production validation and health checks.

- Analyze production failures and data discrepancies.

- Support incident investigation and resolution.

- Compare production and staging environments to identify differences.

- Validate production data after deployments and pipeline executions.

- Monitor ECG jobs and provide support for job execution and data processing issues.

- Perform post-production validation and reconciliation.

- Communicate critical production issues and risks to relevant stakeholders.

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15. Agile Delivery & Stakeholder Collaboration

- Work effectively within an Agile/Scrum delivery environment.

- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Data Engineers, DevOps teams, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.

- Provide timely updates on testing progress and issues.

- Participate in requirement clarification and solution discussions.

- Support release planning and production deployment activities.

- Track work items and defects using Rally.

- Ensure testing activities are aligned with sprint and release timelines.

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Required Technical Skills

Mandatory Skills

- 5–6 years of experience in QA / Data Validation / Data Testing / Data Quality Engineering.

- Strong experience in SQL and data analysis.

- Hands-on experience with Python development and automation.

- Experience with PySpark and large-scale data processing.

- Strong experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF).

- Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics / Synapse Pipelines / Notebooks.

- Strong understanding of source-to-target data validation and reconciliation.

- Experience in data completeness, record count, schema, layout, and column validation.

- Experience in defect investigation and root cause analysis.

- Experience validating large datasets and multiple file formats.

- Experience with SQL Server / SSMS.

- Experience with Power BI dashboard/report validation.

- Strong understanding of data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.

Cloud & Data Platform Experience

- Azure Data Factory

- Azure Synapse Analytics

- Azure Synapse Pipelines

- Azure Synapse Notebooks

- Azure Storage Accounts

- Azure Storage Containers

- Azure Cosmos DB

- Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

- AWS S3

- Azure-to-AWS file transfer validation

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Preferred Skills

- Experience developing automated data validation frameworks.

- Experience building automated reporting and reconciliation utilities.

- Knowledge of ETL/ELT testing methodologies.

- Experience working with very large datasets.

- Experience in production data validation and support.

- Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms.

- Experience with Power BI data reconciliation.

- Experience working in Agile environments.

- Experience with Rally or similar Agile project management tools.

- Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot and AI-assisted productivity/automation tools.

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Key Responsibilities at a Glance

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Requirement analysis and clarification

- Business rule validation

- Test planning and execution

- Data quality and data validation

- Source-to-target reconciliation

- Record count and completeness validation

- Schema and layout validation

- Column sequence validation

- Exception and reject data analysis

- Production vs. staging comparison

- SQL-based data analysis

- Python automation

- PySpark development

- Azure Data Factory pipeline testing

- Azure Synapse validation

- Azure Storage validation

- Cosmos DB validation

- AWS S3 validation

- Azure-to-AWS file transfer validation

- Power BI dashboard validation

- SQL Server metrics validation

- Automated reporting

- Defect investigation and root cause analysis

- Production job monitoring and support

- Agile delivery and stakeholder collaboration

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Candidate Profile

We are looking for a detail-oriented, analytical, and technically strong QA/Data Validation professional who can work independently on complex data validation assignments.

The candidate should be comfortable working with large datasets, writing SQL queries, developing Python automation, analyzing PySpark datasets, validating cloud-based data pipelines, and troubleshooting data discrepancies across multiple systems.

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, as the role requires regular collaboration with technical and business teams.

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Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field is preferred.

Experience

5–6 years of relevant professional experience in QA, Data Testing, Data Validation, ETL Testing, Data Quality, Data Engineering QA, or a similar role.

Location

Pan India

Employment Type

Full-Time

Keywords

QA Engineer, Data QA, Data Validation, Data Testing, ETL Testing, Data Quality, SQL, Python, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, ADF, Azure Synapse, Synapse Analytics, Synapse Pipelines, Azure Storage, Cosmos DB, AWS S3, Power BI, SQL Server, SSMS, Data Reconciliation, Source-to-Target Validation, Data Pipeline Testing, ETL QA, Automation Testing, Data Analytics, Root Cause Analysis, Agile, Rally, Cloud Data Testing, Data Engineering QA.

Job Title: Senior Data Tester

Location : Hyderabad

Mode: Hybrid

Notice Period: Immediate Joiner

Key Responsibilities:

• 8+ years of experience in ETL/data testing.
• Design, implement, and execute data validation test plans and test cases.
• Understanding of data modelling and data governance principles.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and scripting (e.g., Python, Shell)Conduct thorough ETL testing, including data extraction, transformation, and loading.
• Validate data integrity across various sources and destinations (data lakes, warehouses, etc.)
• Perform data reconciliation and analysis to identify inconsistencies or data quality issues.
• Develop and maintain automated data testing frameworks using SQL or scripting languages.
• Strong experience with SQL and writing complex queries for data validation.
• Knowledge of data warehouse concepts and testing tools. Experience with ETL tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend, SSIS, etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and modern data tools (e.g., Snowflake, Big Query).
• GCP is mandatory. Experience in Agile development and working within cross-functional teams.
• Exposure to BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Git ISTQB or equivalent testing certifications.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced ETL Tester / Data QA Engineer with strong SQL skills to validate data pipelines, ETL processes, data transformations, and data quality across source and target systems. The candidate should have hands-on experience in writing complex SQL queries, performing data validation, and identifying data discrepancies.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform ETL testing for data extraction, transformation, and loading processes.
• Validate data between source and target systems.
• Write and execute complex SQL queries for data validation and reconciliation.
• Verify data transformations, mappings, joins, aggregations, and business rules.
• Perform data completeness, accuracy, consistency, integrity, and duplicate checks.
• Validate incremental and full data loads.
• Test ETL workflows, batch jobs, and data pipelines.
• Identify, document, and track defects using tools such as JIRA.
• Analyze production data issues and support root-cause analysis.
• Prepare test scenarios, test cases, test data, and execution reports.
• Work closely with developers, data engineers, business analysts, and other QA teams.
• Participate in regression, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in ETL/Data Warehouse Testing.
• Advanced SQL skills, including:
• Joins
• Subqueries
• CTEs
• Window functions
• Aggregations
• Stored procedures
• Data reconciliation
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing concepts such as fact and dimension tables, star/snowflake schemas, and slowly changing dimensions (SCD).
• Experience with ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, SSIS, DataStage, or similar.
• Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Good understanding of SDLC/STLC and defect life cycle.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Good to Have

• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Knowledge of tools such as Databricks, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, or dbt.
• Experience with API testing or data pipeline automation.
• Basic knowledge of Python for test/data validation automation.
• Experience testing large-volume datasets and complex data migrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and documentation skills.

About Us

We believe the future of software development is AI-native — where engineers operate at a higher level of abstraction and quality remains non-negotiable. 

Incubyte is a software craft consultancy where the “how” of building software matters as much as the “what”.  

We partner with companies of all sizes, from helping enterprises build, scale, and modernize to early-stage founders bring their ideas to life. 

Our engineers operate in an AI-native development model, using AI as a collaborator across the SDLC to accelerate development while upholding the discipline of software craftsmanship. Guided by Software Craftsmanship and Extreme Programming practices, we build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems with speed, without compromising quality. If this way of building software resonates with you, we’d like to talk. 

Our Guiding Principles 

These principles define how we work at Incubyte. They are non-negotiable. 

Relentless Pursuit of Quality with Pragmatism 

  We build high-quality systems without losing sight of delivery. 

Extreme Ownership 

  We take responsibility end-to-end for decisions, execution, and outcomes. 

Proactive Collaboration 

  We collaborate closely, challenge each other, and solve problems together. 

Active Pursuit of Mastery 

  We continuously improve our craft and raise our bar. 

Invite, Give, and Act on Feedback 

We seek, give, and act on feedback to get better every day. 

Ensuring Client Success 

We act as trusted partners and focus on real outcomes, not just output. 

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Experience Level

2+ years of experience in SQL, Python, and Snowflake (or equivalent cloud data warehouse), Azure Cloud services.

Role Overview

If you're a Data Craftsperson who takes pride in clean, well-tested data solutions and believes in the principles of Extreme Programming, we'd love to meet you. At Incubyte, we're a DevOps organization where developers own the entire release cycle — you'll get hands-on experience across data engineering, analytics, cloud infrastructure, and direct client communication. This role sits primarily in data engineering (80%) with a meaningful analytics component (20%), supporting our client's data systems end-to-end.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and infrastructure using SQL and Python
• Work within Snowflake to build and optimize data models supporting business use cases
• Parse and process structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML) from varied sources
• Diagnose issues across raw, intermediate, and summary tables
• Build SQL queries to support repeatable analytics use cases based on stakeholder requirements
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues, including time-sensitive or urgent ones
• Identify opportunities to consolidate models and maintain a single source of truth (SSOT)

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of experience with SQL and relational databases, with the ability to understand complex data relationships and transformations (required)
• 2+ years of experience with Python for data engineering tasks (required)
• Experience with Snowflake or an equivalent cloud data warehouse (required)
• Experience working with Snowflake Coco or any other AI tools(required) 
• Experience parsing JSON and XML data (a plus)
• A strong eye for data quality and attention to detail
• Knowledge of Git (required)
• Knowledge of Azure cloud services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Blob Storage, and Azure SQL Database (required)
• Knowledge of data infrastructure/modeling tools like DBT, Fivetran (a plus)
• Experience with BI tools like Power BI(a plus, not core to this role)
• Knowledge of Docker, Linux, Shell/Bash, and virtualization technologies (a plus)
• Knowledge of SSIS packages (a plus)
• Familiarity with CI/CD methodologies

Benefits

Life at Incubyte  

We are a remote-first company with structured flexibility. Teams commit to shared rhythms during core hours, ensuring smooth collaboration while maintaining autonomy. Twice a year, we come together in person for a co-working sprint and once a year for a retreat - with all travel expenses covered. 

Our environment is built for crafters: pairing, refactoring, experimenting with AI, and pushing the boundaries of software excellence. We are all lifelong learners, and our work is our passion. 

Perks

• Dedicated learning & development budget. 
• Sponsorship for conference talks. 
• Comprehensive medical & term insurance.
• Employee-friendly leave policies. 
• Home Office fund 
• Medical Insurance

Job Summary

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Python, ETL, Advanced SQL, CI/CD, DevOps, and Data Analytics. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience designing and developing scalable data pipelines, transforming large datasets, and supporting data-driven applications.

Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) will be an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Develop complex and optimized SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations.
• Build and maintain reliable data integration workflows across multiple data sources.
• Perform data cleansing, validation, transformation, and quality checks.
• Analyze data and provide insights to support business and technical requirements.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data engineering applications.
• Work with DevOps practices and tools to automate deployments, monitoring, and infrastructure processes.
• Troubleshoot data pipeline failures, performance issues, and production incidents.
• Optimize data processing workflows for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Developers, and other stakeholders.
• Follow best practices for version control, testing, documentation, and deployment.
• Contribute to cloud-based data engineering initiatives, preferably on GCP.

Required Skills

• 5–7 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Strong expertise in Advanced SQL and database concepts.
• Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
• Good understanding of Data Warehousing and Data Modeling concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, automation, and deployment processes.
• Strong data analytics and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with large datasets and performance optimization.
• Good understanding of Git/version control and software development best practices.

Good to Have

• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Exposure to GCP data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Composer, or Pub/Sub.
• Experience with containerization/orchestration technologies such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data architecture and distributed data processing.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong ownership of data pipelines and production systems.
• Candidates who can join at short notice are preferred.

Mandatory Skills

 Data Engineer, Python , ETL, GCP, Advanced SQL, Strong Data Analytics skills, CICD, Devops

Must-Have Skills

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Data Engineering / Analytics Engineering / Fintech Data roles
• Must have worked on SMS Parsing, intelligent platform, converting RAW customer SMS data into structured actionable financial signals and enabling downstream usage of SMS derived variables
• Must have established a continuous learning cycle to expand parser coverage
• Experience in Lending / NBFC / Fintech domain
• Experience working with Bureau, SMS, Device, or Banking data
• Strong Python and SQL (production level)
• Experience handling unstructured data (SMS, logs, JSON, APIs)
• Experience building data pipelines, schedulers, and cron jobs
• Strong database design and data modelling skills
• Ability to work in a startup environment with high ownership
• Familiarity with modern platforms like AWS, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Redshift

Good to Have

• Experience in STPL, especially less than 25K ticket size
• Experience with streaming (Kafka/Kinesis) and orchestration (Airflow or Step Functions)
• Experience with feature stores and risk analytics datasets
• Knowledge of regex, NLP basics for SMS parsing
• Experience supporting real-time decision engines/underwriting systems

Role Summary

This role will be responsible for owning the end-to-end data-structuring layer across the organisation. The individual will transform large volumes of raw, unstructured, and semi-structured data (such as SMS, device, bureau, and app data) into clean, standardised, and analysis-ready datasets. These structured datasets will directly power risk analytics, fraud detection, marketing insights, collections strategy, and policy decisioning.

Key Objective of the Role

Ensure all raw lending data (SMS, Bureau, Device, AA, App logs) is captured, parsed, structured, and stored in a clean analytics-ready format inside databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS stack) so that the Risk and Data Science team can directly use it for feature creation, policy building, and portfolio monitoring.

Core Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Data Ownership

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines (batch + streaming) using AWS native services (Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis, S3, Athena, Redshift, EMR/Spark, etc.): ingestion

→ parsing → structuring → storage

• Work closely with Tech, Product, and Data Science to define what data should be captured
• Maintain data documentation, data dictionaries, and schema governance
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and version control

1. Unstructured Data Processing (Highest Priority)

• Parse raw SMS dumps and categorise into salary, EMI, loan apps, collections, credits, debits, OTP, etc.
• Process device fingerprint, behavioural logs, and vendor data (FinBox, AA, Bureau APIs)
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• Convert JSON, logs, and raw API responses into structured feature tables
• Build regex/keyword-based parsers for financial SMS classification

1. Feature Implementation (From Risk & Data Science Team)

• Implement feature creation logic provided by Risk/Data Science team
• Translate business and policy logic into SQL/Python pipelines
• Create reusable feature layers for underwriting, fraud, collections, and monitoring
• Maintain a feature store for consistent model and policy usage

1. Lending Data Understanding (Domain-Specific Requirement)

• Work with Bureau data
• Structure SMS-derived financial variables (income, stress, EMI signals)
• Work with Account Aggregator and bank transaction datasets
• Understand fintech alternate data used in underwriting and fraud detection

1. Data Pipelines & Automation

• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Python & SQL
• Create cron jobs for automated data ingestion and feature refresh
• Automate vendor data pulls (Bureau, SMS SDK, AA, device data)
• Ensure low-latency pipelines for real-time underwriting use cases

1. Database Structuring & Storage Architecture

• Structure clean datasets in PostgreSQL (analytics layer)
• Manage raw data storage in DynamoDB / S3 data lake
• Design normalized and denormalised tables for risk analytics
• Optimise database performance for large-scale query workloads

1. Dashboards & Readable Data Layer

• Create analytics-ready datasets, implement & write Metabase queries and convert into dashboards (Metabase / Power BI)
• Enable self-serve data access for Risk, Business, and Founders
• Support ad-hoc analysis requirements from leadership

1. Cross-Functional Collaboration (Very Important)

• The role requires close collaboration with data science, tech, product, and business teams to ensure reliable data pipelines, well-defined schemas, API integrations, logging architecture and high data quality, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making across lending workflows.

Tech Stack (Current Environment)

• AWS Services
• PostgreSQL (Primary analytics DB)
• DynamoDB (Raw/NoSQL storage)
• Python (Pandas, NumPy, ETL frameworks)
• Advanced SQL
• APIs, JSON, and Log Data Handling