Description:
We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Principal Engineer (Individual Contributor) to drive the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of next-generation data platforms and analytics solutions. This role operates as a senior hands-on technical leader working across globally distributed teams in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Reporting to the Director of Data Engineering and Analytics, this role is responsible for defining enterprise data platform direction, ensuring architectural excellence, and leading complex technical initiatives from design through execution. You will partner closely with leaders across Product, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to align data engineering solutions with business priorities and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical & Architectural Leadership
· Serve as a senior technical authority for data engineering and data platform architecture across the enterprise.
· Own the design and implementation of complex, large-scale data platforms and pipelines.




· Lead by example through hands-on architecture, design reviews, technical problem solving, and selective coding.
Data Platform Strategy
· Translate business and analytical objectives into a clear, actionable data engineering and platform strategy.
· Define and influence the technical roadmap for cloud-native data platforms leveraging AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, and emerging technologies.
· Drive alignment to enterprise data architecture standards and best practices.
Architectural Excellence
· Provide architectural governance and technical leadership across:
· AWS (S3, Iceberg, Glue, Lambda, Lake Formation, EMR, Redshift)
· Contemporary ELT/ETL frameworks (dbt, Airflow)
· Azure Data Factory
· Snowflake and Databricks ecosystems
· Ensure platforms are secure, scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient.
Platform Engineering & Delivery
· Lead the design, build, and optimization of batch an

📌 Principal Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Milestone Technologies
📍 Hyderabad