Principal Data Engineer

Job Title : Principal Data Engineer

Contract Period : more than 6 months

Experience : 6+

Working hours : 9 : 30am to 6 : 30pm IST

About the Role

We are looking for an accomplished Principal Data Engineer to lead the ideation, architecture,

design and development of our next-generation enterprise data platform. This role requires a

visionary technologist with deep hands-on expertise in cloud data engineering (GCP preferred),

data architecture, and software engineering.

You will work closely with cloud, security, and infrastructure architects to ensure seamless

alignment with the organization's broader technology and business strategies.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the end-to-end architecture and development of a modern enterprise-scale data platform
• from the ground up.
• Collaborate with cloud and security architects to ensure platform scalability, performance, and
• compliance.
• Architect, design, and implement batch and real-time streaming data infrastructures and
• workloads.
• Build and maintain data lakehouse architectures within the GCP ecosystem.
• Design and develop connector frameworks and reusable data ingestion pipelines to source data
• from both on-premises and cloud systems.
• Architect and implement metadata management, including data catalogs, lineage, quality, and
• observability frameworks.
• Design and develop data quality frameworks and governance processes to ensure reliability and
• accuracy.
• Develop microservices-based components using Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud Run to
• abstract platform and infrastructure complexities.
• Design and optimize data storage, transformation, and querying performance for large-scale
• datasets while ensuring cost efficiency.
• Implement observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog) and DataOps best practices, including

CI / CD and test automation.

Required Skills & Experience