Senior Data Engineer- Remote, India

This is a remote position.

Job Description

We are seeking a Technical Architect with 10+ years of overall technology experience, including proven experience architecting and delivering production Generative AI systems. The ideal candidate will combine deep hands-on command of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic architectures with the judgement to design AI solutions that hold up under real enterprise constraints of cost, latency, security, and compliance. This role owns the technical architecture of AI engagements end-to-end: shaping the solution during discovery and pre-sales, defining reference architectures and integration patterns, selecting models and platforms, and guiding delivery teams through implementation. You will work directly with client stakeholders, product managers and engineering leads, and will help set the technical standards of our AI practice. This is a senior, hands-on architecture role rather than a purely advisory one. This role owns multiple concurrent AI engagements from discovery through production. Beyond technical architecture, the Technical Architect is expected to act as a trusted advisor to clients, lead engineering teams, mentor future technical leaders, and drive engineering excellence through hands-on involvement

Requirements

Job Description

We are looking for a well-rounded Senior Data Engineer to proactively design, build and maintain modern cloud data platforms end to end. The role spans the full data engineering lifecycle - ingestion, transformation, storage, modeling and delivery - with strong hands-on expertise across Azure, Databricks and Snowflake, fully automated CI/CD, and integration of enterprise source systems including SAP. It requires cross-functional collaboration and ensures the highest standards of data quality, reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Understand the values and vision of the organization
• Protect the Intellectual Property
• Adhere to all the policies and procedures
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for data ingestion, processing and storage.
• Build and optimize data architectures and data models (Lakehouse / medallion, dimensional) for efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Develop ETL/ELT processes to transform and load data from various sources into data warehouses and data lakes.
• Build and orchestrate pipelines on Azure Databricks using PySpark, Spark SQL and Delta Lake, orchestrated with Databricks Workflows.
• Integrate data from enterprise source systems including SAP (ABAP/CDS extracts, RPA/CSV or connectors) and load into Snowflake and Databricks.
• Own end-to-end CI/CD for data pipelines using Databricks Asset Bundles (DAB) and Azure DevOps (Git repositories, YAML build and release pipelines), promoting code across dev, QA and production.
• Implement data quality, validation, freshness and reconciliation checks with pipeline observability.
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and security across all data systems.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines and workflows to ensure high availability and performance.
• Document data processes, architectures, and data flow diagrams.

Essential Skills
Job

• 7 - 8 years of hands-on data engineering experience building and running production data pipelines at scale.
• Strong expertise in Azure and Azure data services (ADLS Gen2, Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps).Deep hands-on experience with
• Databricks: PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Lakehouse / medallion architecture and Databricks Workflows.
• CI/CD for data engineering using Databricks Asset Bundles (DAB) and Azure DevOps (Git, YAML build/release pipelines, multi-environment promotion).

(Must-have)

• Strong Snowflake experience (data modeling, performance tuning, loading and optimization).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Experience integrating data from SAP and other enterprise ERP / source systems into a data lake or warehouse.
• Solid data modeling (dimensional, star/snowflake, Lakehouse) and ETL/ELT design.
• Building data-quality, validation, reconciliation and pipeline monitoring / observability.

Personal

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with all levels of employees and management.
• Collaborative approach to effectively present and advocate for quick design solutions.
• Stay updated on the latest design trends, tools, and technologies, bringing innovative ideas to enhance the product experience.
• A proactive approach to problem solving, with a focus on delivering exceptional customer satisfaction.

Certifications

At least one current certification is required; multiple is a strong plus:

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional. (Required)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203), or Azure Fundamentals (DP-900 / AZ-900).
• SnowPro Core or SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer (Snowflake).

Preferred Skills

Job

• Familiarity with SAP finance / ERP data domains (Accounts Receivable, invoice-to-pay, bank statements).
• Streaming and event-driven pipelines (Apache Kafka / Azure Event Hubs).
• Workflow orchestration (Apache Airflow, Databricks Workflows).
• Databricks Unity Catalog and Delta Live Tables.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and containerization (Docker).
• Data governance, lineage and cost/performance optimization on Databricks and Snowflake.
• Exposure to BI / visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).

Personal

• Demonstrate proactive thinking
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Should have strong interpersonal relations, expert business acumen and mentoring skills
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Have the ability to work under stringent deadlines and demanding client conditions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Other Relevant Information

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7 - 8 years of experience in data engineering & architecture, including hands-on Databricks and Azure DevOps CI/CD.

Benefits

• This role offers the flexibility of working remotely in India.

LeewayHertz is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status. We encourage a diverse range of applicants.

Originally posted on Himalayas