About the role
As a Data Engineer, you’ll feel at home if you are hands on, grounded, opinionated and passionate about delivering comprehensive data solutions that align with up-to-date data architecture approaches. Your work will range from building a full data platform to building data pipelines or helping with data architecture and strategy. This role is ideal for those looking to have a large impact and huge scope for growth, while still being hands on with technology. We aim to allow growth without becoming “post-technical”

Responsibilities
Collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to deliver production quality AI and Machine Learning systems
Build frameworks and supporting tooling for data ingestion from a complex variety of sources
Consult with our clients on data strategy, modernising their data infrastructure, architecture and technology
Model their data for increased visibility and performance
You will be given ownership of your work, and are encouraged to propose alternatives and make a case for doing things differently; our clients trust us and we manage ourselves.




You will work in short sprints to deliver working software
You will be working with other data engineers in Sahaj and work on building Data Engineering capability across the organisation

Skills you’ll need
Demonstrated experience as a Senior Data Engineer in complex enterprise environments.
Deep understanding of technology fundamentals and experience with languages like Python, or functional programming languages like Scala
Demonstrated experience in design and development of big data applications using tech stacks like Databricks, Apache Spark, HDFS, HBase and Snowflake
Commendable skills in building data products, by integrating large sets of data from hundreds of internal and external sources would be highly critical
A nuanced understanding of code quality, maintainability and practices like Test Driven Development
Ability to deliver an application end to end; having an opinion on how yo

📌 Lead Data Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Sahaj Software
📍 Chennai