Data Engineer ( Contract)
Statsby.ai · Pune · Onsite
- Software & SaaS
- 11–50 employees
- Pune
All reasons
- Open 59 days
In its favour
- Still listed on the employer's own board
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
Skills
- Databricks
- Delta Lake
- Unity Catalog
- PySpark
- Spark
- SQL
- Python
- dbt
- Snowflake
- HashiCorp Vault
- Azure
- AWS
- LLM
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Embeddings
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Bicep