Overview

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. We are looking for highly motivated expert Principal Data Engineer who can own the design & development of complex data pipelines, solutions and frameworks. The ideal candidate will be responsible to design, develop, and optimize data pipelines, data integration frameworks, and metadata-driven architectures that enable seamless data access

Responsibilities

• ABOUT THE ROLE
• Architect and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, and Delta Lake, enabling efficient batch and real-time processing.
• Lead efforts to evaluate, adopt, and integrate emerging technologies and tools that enhance productivity, scalability, and data delivery capabilities.
• Drive performance optimization efforts, including Spark tuning, resource utilization, job scheduling, and query improvements.
• Identify and implement innovative solutions that streamline data ingestion, transformation, lineage tracking, and platform observability.
• Build frameworks for metadata-driven data engineering, enabling reusability and consistency across pipelines.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous improvement within the data engineering team.
• Collaborate with platform, architecture, analytics, and governance teams to align platform enhancements with enterprise data strategy.
• Define and uphold SLOs, monitoring standards, and data quality KPIs for production pipelines and infrastructure.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable, governed data products.
• Mentor engineers across the team, promoting knowledge sharing and adoption of modern engineering patterns and tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data architects, business analysts, and DevOps teams, to align data engineering strategies with enterprise goals.
• Stay up to date with emerging data technologies and best practices, ensuring continuous improvement of Enterprise Data Fabric architectures.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in data engineering technologies such as Databricks, PySpark, SparkSQL Apache Spark, AWS, Python, SQL, and Scaled Agile methodologies.
• Proficiency in workflow orchestration, performance tuning on big data processing.
• Strong understanding of AWS services
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt and apply new technologies
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Good to have deep expertise in Biotech & Pharma industries

Education

• 12 to 17 years of experience in Computer Science, IT or related field
• AWS Certified Data Engineer preferred
• Databricks Certificate preferred
• Scaled Agile SAFe certification preferred
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.
• Ability to learn quickly, be organized and detail oriented.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.