Lead Data Engineer (Remote)

What You’ll Be Doing:● Own the architecture and roadmap for scalable, secure, and high-quality data pipelinesand platforms.● Lead and mentor a team of data engineers while establishing engineering best practices,coding standards, and governance models.● Design and implement high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using modern Big Datatechnologies for diverse internal and external data sources.● Drive modernization initiatives including re-architecting legacy systems to supportnext-generation data products, ML workloads, and analytics use cases.● Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to translate requirements intorobust technical solutions that align with organizational priorities.● Champion data quality, monitoring, metadata management, and observability across theecosystem.● Lead initiatives to improve cost efficiency, data delivery SLAs, automation, andinfrastructure scalability.● Provide technical leadership on data modeling, orchestration, CI/CD for data workflows,and cloud-based architecture improvements.Qualifications:● Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field.● 8+ years of relevant and recent experience in a Data Engineer role.● 5+ years recent experience with Apache Spark and solid understanding of thefundamentals.● Deep understanding of Big Data concepts and distributed systems.● Demonstrated ability to design, review, and optimize scalable data architectures acrossingestion.● Strong coding skills with Scala, Python and the ability to quickly switch between them withease.● Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of relationaldatabases such as Postgres and/or MySQL.● Cloud Experience with DataBricks.● Strong understanding of Delta Lake architecture and working with Parquet, JSON, CSV,and similar formats.● Experience establishing and enforcing data engineering best practices, including CI/CDfor data, orchestration and automation, and metadata management.● Comfortable working in an Agile environment● Machine Learning knowledge is a plus.● Demonstrated ability to operate independently, take ownership of deliverables, and leadtechnical decisions.● Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.● Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamicenvironment.REPORTING: This position will report to Sr. Technical Manager or Director of Engineering asassigned by Management.EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-Time, PermanentSHIFT TIMINGS: 10:00 AM - 07:00 PM IST