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Data Engineer ( Contract)

statsby.ai Pune City, Maharashtra, India

Software Development · 11-50 employees

8 h ago
data-engineer Principal (10+ yrs) Contractor India
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About the role

You will design and build scalable data architecture for an AI-driven product platform while setting engineering standards. The role involves hands-on development, code reviews, and mentoring engineers on complex data and AI workloads.

What they look for

Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog Medallion Architecture PySpark Spark SQL Python SQL Kimball Dimensional Modelling Dbt Snowflake Data Vault 2.0 Azure AWS LLM RAG Pipelines

Requirements

Candidates must have over 10 years of production data engineering experience with at least 3 years in a lead or principal capacity. Expertise in Databricks, cloud platforms, and modern data modeling techniques is required.

Full description

We’re looking for a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to own and build the data architecture for an AI-driven product platform deployed across customer cloud environments.

This is an architect-who-still-ships role — you’ll design scalable data platforms, set engineering standards, review code, mentor engineers, and work hands-on with complex data and AI workloads.

What We’re Looking For

  • 10+ years of experience in production data engineering
  • 3+ years in Lead/Staff/Principal-level ownership
  • Expert in Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog & Medallion Architecture
  • Strong PySpark, Spark SQL, Python & SQL
  • Expertise in Kimball dimensional modelling & dbt
  • Working experience with Snowflake & Data Vault 2.0
  • Experience across Azure & AWS
  • Hands-on experience with LLM/RAG pipelines, embeddings & vector search
  • Strong understanding of data governance, security, observability & cost optimization
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/Bicep & CI/CD

Experience in regulated/compliance-heavy environments is a plus

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