Data Engineer ( Contract)
statsby.ai Pune City, Maharashtra, India
Software Development · 11-50 employees
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
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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