ROLE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER III

LOCATION: CHENNAI (HYBRID - 3 DAYS IN OFFICE PER WEEK)

Role Overview
We are looking for a Data Platform Reliability Engineer to join our Global Data
team. This role focuses on enabling reliable, scalable, and self-service data
platforms built on modern cloud technologies such as Google BigQuery Lakehouse
architectures, and distributed data pipelines.
You will play a key role in supporting production data products, improving
platform observability, and empowering users through automation, AI-driven
capabilities, and self-service solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• Leverage AI/GenAI tools to improve data discovery, metadata generation, and
operational efficiency
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, ingestion, and transformation
workflows
• Enable self-service data access for business users through well-defined
datasets, documentation, and tools
• Automate repetitive support tasks using scripting and platform-native
capabilities
• Collaborate with engineering, analytics, and business teams to resolve data
issues and improve platform usability




• Provide support for enterprise data platforms, ensuring high availability
and reliability
• Support data governance initiatives, including metadata, lineage, and
cataloging
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous
improvement efforts

Required Skills & Experience
• 3–4 years of experience in data engineering / data platform support
• Solid hands-on experience with Google BigQuery, GCS, Composer
• Experience working with data lakehouse architectures (e.g., BigQuery, DBT)

• Good understanding of data ingestion and transformation tools (e.g.,
Airflow, Composer, Informatica CDC, dbt, or similar)
• Proficiency in SQL an dJava / Python
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure is a plus)
• Familiarity with data pipeline monitoring and troubleshooting
• Basic understanding of data governance and metadata management tools (e.g.,
Collibra or similar)

📌 Software Engineer III (Chennai)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Chennai