Position Summary The Senior Data Engineer leads complex data engineering projects, working on designing data architectures that align with business requirements. This role focuses on optimizing data workflows, managing data pipelines, and ensuring the smooth operation of data systems.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ Years overall IT experience with minimum 5 years of work experience in below tech
skills
- Tech Skills
- Strong experience in Python Scripting and PySpark for data processing
- Proficiency in SQL, dealing with big data processing
- Experience in AWS cloud platform and its data services (S3, Redshift, Lambda,
EMR, Airflow, Glue)
- Expertise in BASH/Shell scripting
- Robust understanding of healthcare insurance domain and experience leading data
engineering teams
- Experience in Agile environments.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Leads development of data pipelines and architectures that handle large-scale data sets.
- Designs, constructs, and tests data architecture aligned with business requirements.
- Provides technical leadership for data projects, ensuring best practices and high-quality
data solutions.
- Collaborates with product, finance, and other business units to ensure data pipelines
meet business requirements.
- Oversees development of data solutions that enable predictive and prescriptive
analytics.
- Ensures the technical quality of solutions, managing data as it moves across
environments.
- Aligns data architecture to Healthfirst solution architecture.
Key Job Details
Primary Location
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Type
Experienced
Required Experience
5
Skill
Data-AWS Glue with EMR, Spark, Redshift,Kinesis,S3,AWS Native Data Services.
Travel
No
Date Posted
20/07/2026
📌 Sr Data Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Virtusa
📍 Chennai
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