Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to build and maintain scalable, high-performance data pipelines and infrastructure for our next-generation data platform. The platform ingests and processes real-time and historical data from diverse industrial sources such as airport systems, sensors, cameras, and APIs. You will work closely with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and DevOps to enable reliable analytics, forecasting, and anomaly detection use cases.

Responsibilities

- Analyzing business and system requirements and define optimal data pipeline design for fulfilling them.
- Building scalable, performant, supportable and reliable data pipelines
- Ability to work on and optimize data systems as well as building them from the ground up
- Building scalable, performant, supportable and reliable data pipelines
- Ability to optimize data systems as well as building them from the ground up
- Defining and implementing DevOps framework using CI/CD
- Setting up current, and monitoring of existing metrics, analyzing data, and in cooperation with other Data & Analytics team members identifying and implementing system and process improvements
- Supporting collection of the metadata into our data catalogue system where all available data is maintained and cataloged
- Working closely with data architects, data analysts and other data warehouse engineers and data scientists
- To collaborate across different teams/geographies/stakeholders/levels of seniority
- Work with team in agile development methodology
- Have Customer focus with an eye on continuous improvement
- Supporting Agile way of working using SCRUM framework




- To collaborate across different teams/geographies/stakeholders/levels of seniority
- Have Customer focus with an eye on continuous improvement

Qualifications/Experience

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s, Master’s Degree in Computer Science with at least 7 years of professional experience working on data sets and building data pipelines, and familiar with the following software /tools/techniques:

- Programming skills in Python/Pyspark.
- Expert SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases, query authoring (SQL), as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
- Ability to develop, maintain and distribute the code in modularized fashion
- Experiences with Data Lake/Big Data Projects implementation, building data pipeline in Cloud and/or On-premises platforms:
- Cloud technology stack: AWS, Azure or GCP, Databricks (proven experience is a big plus!) Data pipeline, Data Transformation, Data Storage, Data Quality Management, DevOps
- Experience data pipeline keeping DevOps framework in mind
- Basic knowledge on Data Warehousing concepts for large complex data sets – defining, building, and optimizing data models based on use case requirements
- Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, source code management, code reviews, etc.
- Experience in performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
- Energetic, enthusiastic, and results-oriented personality
- Motivation and ability to perform as a consultant in data engineering projects
- Ability to work independently but also within a Team
- Strong will to overcome the complexities involved in developing and supporting data pipelines.

📌 Lead Data Engineer (India)
🏢 Navikenz
📍 India