We’re Hiring: Senior Azure Data Engineer / Data Engineering Lead

Role: Senior Azure Data Engineer / Data Engineering Lead | Experience: 8+ Years | Level: Senior Individual Contributor

About The Role

We are looking for a senior Azure Data Engineering professional who can design, build, and lead delivery of enterprise-scale cloud data platforms. The ideal candidate will bring robust hands-on engineering depth across Azure, Databricks, Spark, Data Lakehouse, and modern data pipelines, while also guiding engineers, collaborating with business stakeholders, and driving high-quality delivery in an Agile and DevOps environment.

What You’ll Lead And Deliver

Modern Data Platform & Lakehouse Engineering:
Architect and deliver scalable data lakehouse solutions using Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Medallion architecture.
Design curated data products, data marts, and analytics-ready datasets for business analysts, data scientists, and enterprise reporting teams.
Apply strong data modeling practices, partitioning strategies, schema evolution,



performance tuning, and cost optimization.
Data Pipelines, ETL/ELT & Streaming:
Build reliable batch and near-real-time pipelines using Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, SQL, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and related Azure services.
Implement ingestion frameworks for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from multiple enterprise sources.
Ensure data quality, lineage, validation, observability, error handling, and reusable pipeline patterns.
Engineering Leadership:
Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, set engineering standards, review designs, and guide implementation decisions.
Collaborate with architects, product owners, business stakeholders, data scientists, security, platform, and operations teams.
Drive Agile delivery, estimation, sprint planning, technical roadmaps, and continuous improvement across the team.
DevOps, Security & Governance:
Implement CI/CD for data

📌 Senior Azure Data Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 MetLife
📍 Hyderabad