Tech Lead - Data Engineering

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.

Design, develop, and maintain ETL pipelines involving large-scale data.

Develop data processing and analytics applications primarily using PySpark and Python.

Build scalable and distributed data processing solutions using Apache Spark.

Develop and deploy data applications on AWS cloud.

Work with AWS services related to storage, compute, ETL, data warehousing, analytics, and streaming.

Implement distributed storage and processing solutions capable of handling high-volume datasets.

Design data processing applications with a focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and optimization.

Work with both SQL and NoSQL databases for data storage, processing, and analytics.

Write, optimize, and analyze SQL, HQL, and NoSQL queries.

Troubleshoot data pipeline and processing issues and ensure data quality and reliability.

Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, architects, and other technical teams to deliver data-driven solutions.

Job Description – Lead Data Engineer (AWS + Big Data)

Location: Pune - Hybrid

Experience: 8+ Years

Role Overview

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in AWS-based Big Data platforms. The ideal candidate should have extensive implementation experience in designing and building scalable data pipelines, mentoring engineering teams, and driving technical delivery. Databricks exposure is mandatory, while deep implementation experience in Databricks is not essential. Candidates with HBase experience will be preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT solutions on AWS.
• Build and optimize Big Data applications using Spark/PySpark, HBase, Hive, Kafka, and related technologies.
• Work with AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch for cloud-native data engineering.
• Lead technical implementation, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering best practices.
• Ensure data quality, performance optimization, CI/CD adoption, and production support.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch)
• Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Big Data ecosystem
• Databricks exposure (mandatory)
• HBase (strongly preferred)
• Python or Java, Advanced SQL
• ETL/ELT development and Data Warehousing concepts
• Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools
• Git, CI/CD, Performance Tuning, and Data Quality

Good to Have

• Kafka / Spark Structured Streaming
• Hive, Impala, Hadoop ecosystem
• Delta Lake / Lakehouse concepts
• Snowflake or other modern cloud data platforms

Experience Required

• 8–14 years of Data Engineering experience with strong AWS implementation expertise.
• Proven experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of enterprise-scale data platforms and Big Data architectures.
• Ability to collaborate with architects, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions.

NOTE: Final Technical round is mandatory to be taken F2F from Pune, office.

Job Description:

Position: Lead / Senior Data Engineer

Location: Chennai

Shift: US Eastern Time ( 5:00 PM – 2:00 AM )

Experience : 8+ years

Notice Period: Immediate Joiner only

Roles and Responsibilities:

Role Overview

The Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software and data solutions while leading a team of engineers. The role involves hands-on technical work, architectural decision-making, mentoring junior developers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of scalable data platforms and analytical solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of software systems, data pipelines, and components.

Define technical strategy, architecture, and best practices for development and data engineering.

Design and build optimized data pipelines using cutting-edge technologies in a cloud environment.

Construct infrastructure for efficient ETL processes from various sources and storage systems.

Architect, design, and maintain database pipeline architectures, ensuring readiness for AI/ML transformations.

Lead the implementation of algorithms and prototypes to transform raw data into useful information.

Review code for quality, scalability, and performance.

Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Managers, Designers, and QA teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Develop analytical tools, programs, and reporting mechanisms.

Create data validation methods and data analysis tools.

Interpret data trends and patterns to establish operational alerts.

Conduct complex data analysis and present results effectively.

Prepare data for prescriptive and predictive modeling.

Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies.

Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.

Drive continuous improvement in software and data development processes, tools, and methodologies.

Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, technical discussions, and training.

Ensure timely delivery of projects while maintaining high engineering standards.

Continuously explore opportunities to enhance data quality and reliability.

Apply strong programming and problem-solving skills to develop scalable solutions.

Demonstrate passion for testing strategy, problem-solving, and continuous learning.

Willingness to acquire new skills and knowledge.

Possess a product/engineering mindset to drive impactful data solutions.

Experience working in distributed environments with global teams.

Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to propose innovative solutions.

Technical Skills and Experience Requirements

Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, testing, maintaining, monitoring, and owning scalable, resilient, and distributed data pipelines.

High proficiency in Python, Scala, and Spark for applied large-scale data processing.

Expertise with big data technologies, including Spark, Data Lake, Delta Lake, and Hive.

Solid understanding of batch and streaming data processing techniques.

Proficient knowledge of the Data Lifecycle Management process, including data collection, access, use, storage, transfer, and deletion.

Expert-level ability to write complex, optimized SQL queries across extensive data volumes.

Experience with RDBMS and OLAP databases such as MySQL and Snowflake.

Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Obsession for service observability, instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting.

Knowledge or experience in architectural best practices for building data lakes.

Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

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.

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.

Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)

Technical Skills:

Python

Pyspark

SQL

ETL Aws, Azure, gcp

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Data Engineer to join our growing data team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Python, PySpark, Data Modeling, and Power BI, with hands-on experience in designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data solutions. The role requires working closely with business stakeholders, data architects, and analytics teams to build robust data pipelines and semantic models that enable data-driven decision-making.

Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Python and PySpark development.
• Expertise in building and optimizing Data Engineering solutions and ETL pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Data Modeling concepts (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Dimensional Modeling).
• Experience with Power BI Data Modeling and Semantic Layer development.
• Proficiency in DAX (Data Analysis Expressions).
• Experience designing and managing Semantic Models in Power BI.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and best practices.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Exposure to modern data platforms like Databricks.
• Understanding of data governance and data quality frameworks.

Strong Azure Databricks Engineer / Senior Data Engineer Profile

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Mandatory (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.

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

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Mandatory (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.

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Mandatory (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.

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Mandatory (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.

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

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Mandatory (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.

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

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Mandatory (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.

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