Job Description

Looking for 8+ years as a Principal Data Engineer Consultant, you will act as the senior technical authority for complex data and analytics engagements. You will own the end-to-end solution architecture, lead client discovery and design, set technical direction and assure delivery across workstreams. You will balance business outcomes with architectural integrity, security, governance, cost, performance, resilience and operability, while developing technical capability across the team and supporting successful consulting outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead discovery and architecture workshops, validate requirements and translate business outcomes into target architectures, delivery roadmaps and technical specifications.

- Own end-to-end architecture for Microsoft Fabric and Azure data platforms, including integration, data, analytics, semantic and operational design.

- Evaluate solution options and communicate trade-offs covering value, cost, complexity, risk, scalability, performance and time to deliver.

- Define and assure non-functional requirements including security, privacy, availability, recoverability, scalability, performance, supportability and auditability.

- Establish architecture principles, reference patterns, engineering standards and governance controls for the engagement.





- Provide design authority across multiple workstreams, review technical designs and code, manage architectural exceptions and resolve complex technical issues.

- Assure DataOps practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, environment management and release governance.

- Own technical risk, dependency, debt and production-readiness assessments, including monitoring, capacity, recovery and support arrangements.

- Oversee data modelling, integration, data quality, lineage, metadata, classification, retention and access-control approaches.

- Lead technical planning and estimation, coordinate engineering delivery and provide transparent confidence, risks and decisions to project leadership and clients.

- Act as the senior technical escalation point during delivery and significant production incidents.

- Coach Senior Consultants and engineers, delegate effectively and build reusable assets and organisational capability.

- Contribute technical content to proposals, statements of work, estimates and client presentations, while managing scope assumptions and delivery integrity.

- Identify opportunities to improve client outcomes through modernisation, reuse and responsible adoption of advanced analytics and AI.

📌 Data Engineer Consultant Principal (Bengaluru)
🏢 Version 1
📍 Bengaluru