Trident Consulting is seeking a “Senior Data Engineer” for one of our clients in “Mumbai, IN” — a global leader in Information Technology.

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Mumbai, IN

Type: Direct Hire/Fulltime

Role Overview

- We are seeking an exceptional Senior Data Architect / Lead Data Engineer who combines deep architectural thinking with strong hands-on engineering capabilities.
- This is not a documentation-only architecture role. The ideal candidate can define the target architecture, make critical technology decisions, design reusable patterns, and work directly with engineering teams to build and deliver production-grade solutions.
- You will help design and implement up-to-date enterprise data platforms, integration frameworks, governed data products, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, GraphRAG solutions, and AI-ready data foundations.
- Work closely with clients, enterprise architects, AI engineers, product teams, and delivery leaders.
- Help shape technical standards, delivery methodologies, reusable assets, and engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

- Design end-to-end enterprise data architectures.
- Define current, transition, and target-state architectures.
- Design modern data platforms (warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, mesh, fabric).
- Build scalable ingestion, integration, transformation, orchestration, and activation pipelines.
- Define ETL/ELT/API/CDC/streaming integration patterns.
- Design governed data products.
- Develop conceptual, logical, physical, canonical, and semantic data models.
- Build semantic layers, ontologies, knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, and vector stores.
- Establish metadata, lineage, governance, observability, security, and compliance.
- Support analytics, ML, GenAI, and intelligent agents.
- Create reference architectures and engineering standards.
- Perform architecture reviews and optimization.
- Partner with clients.
- Mentor engineers.
- Contribute hands-on to delivery.

Required Experience and Skills





- 5–15+ years in data architecture/engineering.
- Strong architecture plus hands-on engineering.
- Enterprise-scale solution delivery.
- Deep data lifecycle expertise.
- Strong data modeling.
- Experience with ETL, ELT, CDC, APIs, streaming.
- Cloud platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Data warehouses, lakehouses, mesh, fabric.
- Governance, metadata, lineage, quality.
- Data products and contracts.
- Analytics and AI-ready foundations.
- Excellent communication.
- Explain complex concepts clearly.

AI, Semantic, and Context Engineering Experience

- LLMs, GenAI, intelligent agents.
- RAG, GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, vector databases.
- Ontologies and semantic modeling.
- Metadata-driven automation.
- AI evaluation and responsible AI.
- Enterprise AI integrations.
- AI-enabled data quality and lineage.

AI-Native Engineering Skills

- Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenAI, Gemini.
- Agentic frameworks.
- Model Context Protocol.
- AI-assisted engineering.
- Prompt engineering and workflow automation.
- AI with human validation and governance.

Leadership and Startup Mindset

- Startup mindset.
- Independent execution.
- Hands-on across architecture and delivery.
- Ownership and accountability.
- Customer-first.
- Challenge assumptions.
- Continuous learning.
- Mentor others.
- Help build the company.

Education

- Bachelor's or Master's in a relevant field.
- Relevant cloud/data/AI certifications are a plus.

About Trident Consulting Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.

We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale.

📌 Data Engineer (Mumbai)
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