Job Details
- Location: Hyderabad, Telangana
- Working Schedule: Full-Time
- Work Arrangement: Hybrid
- Relocation Assistance Available: Yes
Job Summary

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 strong 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 robust 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.
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