Senior Data Engineer
Skills
About the role
This is a full-time onsite Senior Data Engineer role in Hyderabad, Telangana, India for an engineer with at least five years of data engineering experience. You’ll build cloud-native healthcare data infrastructure on AWS, using lakehouse technologies, orchestration, transformation, and data quality frameworks. The role includes hands-on delivery, architecture participation, operational reliability, and mentoring.
What you’ll do
- Deliver complex data engineering projects from design through production.
- Build batch and near-real-time data pipelines.
- Create reusable ingestion, transformation, validation, and publishing frameworks.
- Modernize legacy data workloads.
- Implement and optimize Apache Iceberg tables and metadata practices.
- Apply schema evolution, partitioning, compaction, and query-performance standards.
- Build data quality, validation, observability, and monitoring capabilities.
- Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and share engineering practices.
What they’re looking for
- At least five years of data engineering experience.
- Experience contributing to enterprise-scale data initiatives.
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS S3, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, IAM, and security controls.
- Experience with Apache Iceberg or comparable Delta Lake or Hudi technologies.
- Experience with dbt and Airflow or Step Functions.
- Strong Python, SQL, PySpark, and Spark skills.
- Ability to work onsite in Hyderabad or relocate there.
Nice to have
- Experience with Apache Iceberg is preferred.
What’s on offer
- Full-time onsite work in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
- The role sits within a healthcare technology company focused on clinical intelligence and payment integrity.
Questions about this role
Where is this Senior Data Engineer role based?
It is an onsite role in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
How much experience is required?
The posting requires at least five years of data engineering experience.
Which technologies are central to the role?
The posting highlights AWS, Apache Iceberg, Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, dbt, Airflow or Step Functions, Python, SQL, and Spark.
How this role compares
One of 8 open Senior Data Engineer roles we are tracking today.
Posted 7 days ago, with 6 of the others posted since and 1 still open from before.
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