VP - Data Architect (B2B SaaS)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Job description: Data Architect – Databricks / AWS

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Data Architect to define and drive the target data architecture for the Horizon MVP and its future evolution. The role will be responsible for designing a scalable, secure, governed cloud data platform covering ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, APIs, and downstream data consumption.

The architect will work closely with Data Engineering, Backend, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders to establish architecture standards and ensure the platform is ready for advanced analytics, AI/ML, vector storage, and future LLM-based capabilities.

• Job Title: Data Architect
• Experience: 8+ Years
• Relevant Architecture Experience: 3+ Years in Data Architecture
• Location: Chennai / Pune
• Work Mode: Hybrid – 3 Days WFO
• Budget: Up to 24 LPA
• Payroll: Haparz
• Notice Period: Immediate Preferred

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target data architecture for the Horizon MVP and establish an architecture roadmap for future scalability.
• Design end-to-end architecture covering data ingestion, storage, processing, serving, reporting, APIs, and downstream applications.
• Establish canonical data models and schemas for travel signals, corridors, sources, evidence, scores, and generated insights.
• Define data normalization strategies for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from multiple external sources.
• Design and govern the Databricks platform architecture, including Unity Catalog, data schemas, access controls, and governance standards.
• Establish data-retention, lineage, data-quality, security, privacy, and compliance controls.
• Define secure integration patterns between Databricks, AWS PRODIGY, SharePoint, external APIs, and downstream applications.
• Design scalable data processing for 30-day signal windows, convergence/divergence scoring, corridor ranking, and spike detection.
• Define architecture patterns that support future vector storage, embeddings, LLM integration, and multi-year analytics.
• Design reliable batch and API-driven ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
• Review technical designs, identify architectural risks, and provide technical direction to engineering teams.
• Guide backend, data engineering, DevOps, and QA teams in implementing architecture standards.
• Ensure architecture decisions align with enterprise security, RBAC, PII handling, privacy, and operational requirements.
• Communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and technical recommendations effectively to technical and business stakeholders.
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What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or data architecture, with at least 3+ years in a Data Architect capacity.
• Strong hands-on experience designing cloud-based data platforms, lakehouses, or analytical platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of Databricks, Apache Spark/PySpark, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Strong understanding of AWS data services, IAM, networking, and secure cloud integration patterns.
• Strong expertise in data modelling, metadata management, data lineage, data quality, retention, and governance.
• Experience architecting batch and API-based ingestion pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Understanding of AI/ML workloads, feature pipelines, vector databases, embeddings, and LLM integration patterns.
• Experience designing APIs and downstream data-serving architectures.
• Strong knowledge of PII protection, RBAC, data privacy, and enterprise security controls.
• Excellent architectural communication and stakeholder-management skills.

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  

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.