Department: Enterprise AI (EAI), Global Business Services, Enterprise IT & Quality

Location: Bangalore, India

Your impact begins here

As Principal Data Engineer, you will be the technical lead for the AIRE data engineering, design and delivery teams, helping strategize, build & enable the data foundations that Novo’s commercial, global manufacturing, supply chain and corporate functions would need. You will combine deep engineering expertise with business understanding to shape requirements, guide teams and vendors, and raise the bar for data quality, governance and engineering practices. Your work gives AI, analytics and business teams data they can trust and act on today.

What You’ll Bring

You are a hands-on engineering leader, as comfortable reviewing code as shaping a strategic data foundational capability roadmap with business leaders. You will bring:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture and data product development, designing and delivering large-scale,



complex data initiatives.
• Strong hands-on expertise in AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, Python, SQL and GitHub Enterprise or Azure DevOps.
• Deep expertise in ETL/ELT design, data modelling, data warehousing and data lakes, and streaming technologies such as Kafka and Event Hubs.
• A strong DataOps and DevOps background, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes, grounded in contemporary software development practices.
• Proven experience integrating data across platforms from multiple source-system types and formats, including open table formats and interoperability.
• A solid grounding in automated testing, data quality, metadata, lineage, MDM, catalogue and policy management, security and production reliability, including classifying and protecting data with native platform features.
• A demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, partner with stakeholders

📌 Principal Data Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Novo Nordisk
📍 Bengaluru