Data Engineer

Ford Racing; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Racing seeks an Advanced Data Engineer / Technical Anchor to lead cloud data architectures, drive strategic roadmaps, and enforce IaC and CI/CD standards across engineering teams. You will mentor staff, govern data security controls, and partner with business leadership to maximise long-term platform value.

The role emphasizes real-time and batch data processing using Spark, BigQuery, Dataflow, and Terraform on GCP, with strong emphasis on SWE metrics and incident leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Act as the lead engineer and domain expert for Cloud Data Solution Architectures.

Skills

Technical leadership

Solution architecture

CI/CD

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Mentorship

Observability

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Tekton

Checkmarx

FOSSA

SonarQube

Cloud Run

BigQuery/Dataflow/Dataproc

Job description

We are seeking a highly accomplished and visionary Advanced Data Engineer / Technical Anchor to join our team. In this role, you will serve as the technical lead and architectural authority, designing enterprise-grade Cloud Data Solution Architectures leveraging Python, Cloud Dataproc (Spark), BigQuery, Astro (Airflow), and Terraform. You will act as a strategic partner between engineering teams and business leadership, establishing organisational CI/CD standards (Tekton, GitHub) and security scanning controls (Checkmarx, FOSSA, SonarQube). You will govern Cloud Run audit signals and GCS log archival frameworks, and mentor engineering talent to maximise the long-term strategic value of our data platform.

• Technical Anchor & Solution Architecture:Act as the lead engineer and domain expert, designing enterprise-grade Cloud Data Solution Architectures, implementing advanced design patterns, and guiding technology selection across the platform.
• Strategic Roadmap Alignment:Partner with business and engineering leaders to align technical roadmaps with organisational goals. Provide strategic advice on 'build vs. buy' decisions to maximise long-term business value.
• IaC & CI/CD Strategy:Establish organisational standards for Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Standardise automated release pipelines via GitHub and Tekton, embedding mandatory quality, security, and licence compliance controls (Checkmarx, FOSSA, SonarQube).
• High-Performance Distributed Processing:Architect and optimise large-scale real-time and batch data processing systems leveraging BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and distributed computing frameworks on GCP.
• Platform Health & Quality Metrics:Establish organisational coding patterns, reusable frameworks, and SLO compliance. Introduce and drive Software Engineering (SWE) metrics, including DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, MTTR, change-failure rate), code coverage, cyclomatic complexity targets, and P99 latency standards.
• Data Governance & Enterprise Security:Drive the strategy and implementation for enterprise data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and strict GCP security controls (IAM, VPC Service Controls, encryption).
• Resilience, Observability & Incident Leadership:Establish deployment and observability standards; lead critical incident resolution and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to implement permanent solutions and address technical debt.
• Mentorship & Culture:Mentor engineers across teams, conduct high-impact code reviews (Code Guardians), drive cultural change, and represent organisational technical excellence internally and externally (tech talks, blogs, open-source).

• Education & Experience:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, with extensive experience in enterprise data platform architecture, distributed systems, and technical leadership/anchor roles.
• Data Architecture & Processing: Expert mastery of Python, distributed computing with Spark on Cloud Dataproc, and advanced BigQuery data modelling, query optimisation, and cost management.
• Programming & Systems Design:Expert mastery of Python, Java, or Scala for distributed computing, real-time streaming, and complex data pipeline creation.
• CI/CD & Security Frameworks:Comprehensive experience integrating Tekton, GitHub, SonarQube, Checkmarx, and FOSSA into automated release gates. Deep knowledge of enterprise GCP security (IAM, Secret Manager) and audit architectures (Cloud Run, Cloud Storage).
• Data Governance & Security Frameworks:Deep experience building data governance, metadata management, data lineage, and security infrastructure within GCP (VPC SC, IAM, KMS).
• Engineering Metrics & Quality Control:Proven experience embedding SWE-centric operational metrics (DORA metrics, code coverage, cyclomatic complexity, latency optimisation) into platform operations.
• Executive Leadership & Influence:Exceptional communication skills with a proven track record of influencing cross-team strategies, mentoring engineering talent, driving platform health initiatives, and resolving complex technical blockers.