Job Description

Senior Data Engineer - Databricks | PySpark | dbt | Lakehouse Engineering

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⚠️ This is NOT a typical Data Engineering position.

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We are looking for a hands-on Senior Data Engineer with strong, production-grade Databricks experience - someone who has actually built and optimized Lakehouse/Medallion architectures, PySpark & dbt pipelines, PostgreSQL data layers, and CI/CD workflows , rather than someone with only surface-level exposure to these technologies.

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⚠️ If Databricks is not a core part of your recent hands-on experience, this role may not be the right fit.

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Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

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Specialization: Data Engineering | Databricks | Lakehouse | Data Platforms | AI-Ready Data

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Experience: 5+ Years

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Location: BNG | HYD | PUN | MUM | GGN

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Work Model: Hybrid

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What We're Looking For

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Mandatory-Strong hands-on experience required:

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• Databricks – with practical experience building production data platforms and Lakehouse architectures.

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• PySpark – strong production experience working with non-trivial data volumes.

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• Python – advanced programming and data engineering experience.

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• dbt – hands-on experience with staging, transformations, incremental models, testing, and documentation.

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• CI/CD – Azure DevOps – experience deploying and managing data assets through CI/CD pipelines.

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• PostgreSQL – database design, schema management, query optimization,



and performance tuning.

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• Strong understanding of Medallion Architecture and Delta Lake .

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• Advanced SQL and experience working with large-scale datasets.

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Positive to Have

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• MLflow and experience supporting ML/data science workflows.

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• LangChain or similar AI/Agent frameworks.

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• Exposure to AI Agents / AI-ready data platforms .

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• Experience with SQL Server .

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• Experience with DuckDB .

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• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code exposure.

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• Docker and containerized data workloads.

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• Experience with APIs and structured/semi-structured formats such as JSON, CSV, Parquet, and Apache Arrow .

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• Exposure to marketing analytics, marketing measurement, or enterprise consulting environments.

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Why This Role Is Different

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This isn't simply a role where you'll “build pipelines and move data.”

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You'll be responsible for building the data foundation behind modeling, optimization, analytics, customer-facing applications, and AI Agents - with an emphasis on architecture, performance, data quality, governance, reproducibility, and production reliability.

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Primary Skills (Mandatory):

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Databricks | PySpark | Python | dbt | Azure DevOps / CI-CD | PostgreSQL | Advanced SQL | Delta Lake | Medallion Architecture

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Good to Have:

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MLflow | LangChain | AI Agents | SQL Server | DuckDB | Terraform | Docker

📌 Senior Data Engineer (Bengaluru)
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📍 Bengaluru