Role: Lead Data Engineer

Location: Chennai (Work from Office)

Experience: 8 to 12 years

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to drive the design, development, and management of our data infrastructure while leading a team of 4 engineers. This role combines strong hands-on technical expertise with people management and delivery ownership and requires someone comfortable using up-to-date AI-assisted ("vibe coding") tools to rapidly build and ship data products, while maintaining the infrastructure that powers them.

Key Responsibilities

*Technical Leadership & Development*
- Architect, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, and Python
- Write and review complex SQL queries for data transformation, validation, and performance tuning
- Design and maintain data models and ETL/ELT workflows across Databricks environments
- Support or lead development of ML models/pipelines for data products (feature engineering, model training, deployment, and monitoring)




- Build data product applications using AI-assisted "vibe coding" tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to rapidly prototype, develop, and ship internal tools, dashboards, and data-driven applications
- Establish and enforce best practices for code quality, version control, and CI/CD using Git
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the team to improve developer velocity, code review efficiency, and documentation
- Conduct code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical design sessions

*Infrastructure & Platform Ownership*
- Own and maintain the infrastructure underlying data products compute clusters, transactional databases, job orchestration, environments, deployment pipelines, and monitoring
- Ensure data pipeline reliability, observability, and cost optimization across Databricks
- Manage access controls, environment configuration, and platform scaling for data product apps
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues end-to-end (co

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