Data Engineer, Data Platforms

S&P Global; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

S&P Global is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to transition and operationalize pipelines on an enterprise data platform. You will collaborate with Databricks and platform teams to design scalable, secure data ingestion, transformation, and deployment patterns, utilizing AWS services and lakehouse technologies.

Responsibilities include enabling offshore and global teams, establishing observability, and contributing to engineering standards for CI/CD, automation, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or related technical domains.
• Hands-on experience building and operating batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Experience working with Databricks-based platforms and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong familiarity with AWS data engineering services such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS IAM.
• Working knowledge of Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks Unity Catalog (or equivalent governed lakehouse concepts).
• Solid understanding of data quality, schema management, lineage/metadata basics, access control, encryption, and operational support.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Databricks and platform teams to transition existing pipelines into the target enterprise data platform.
• Provide hands-on engineering support to stabilize and optimize pipelines post-transition, focusing on performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Implement and follow repeatable engineering patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Support secure AWS deployment patterns and governed data access using AWS IAM, encryption, and platform guardrails.
• Work with lakehouse technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks Unity Catalog, and support metadata-driven pipeline design.
• Assist with establishing and maintaining observability practices (logging, telemetry, alerts, dashboards) for production pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

Batch/Streaming pipelines

Databricks

AWS

Delta Lake

Data quality

Governed lakehouse

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

Unity Catalog

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

Kinesis

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Databricks and platform teams to transition existing pipelines into the target enterprise data platform.
• Provide hands‑on engineering support to stabilize and optimize pipelines post‑transition, focusing on performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Implement and follow repeatable engineering patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Support secure AWS deployment patterns and governed data access using AWS IAM, encryption, and platform guardrails.
• Work with lakehouse technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks Unity Catalog, and support metadata‑driven pipeline design.
• Assist with establishing and maintaining observability practices (logging, telemetry, alerts, dashboards) for production pipelines.

About The Role

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

Key Responsibilities

Data Pipeline Transition and Platform Delivery

• Partner with Databricks and platform teams to transition existing pipelines into the target enterprise data platform.
• Provide hands‑on engineering support to stabilize and optimize pipelines post‑transition, focusing on performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Implement and follow repeatable engineering patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Support secure AWS deployment patterns and governed data access using AWS IAM, encryption, and platform guardrails.
• Work with lakehouse technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks Unity Catalog, and support metadata‑driven pipeline design.
• Assist with establishing and maintaining observability practices (logging, telemetry, alerts, dashboards) for production pipelines.

Data Onboarding and Asset‑Agnostic Enablement

• Support asset‑agnostic onboarding by applying standard ingestion and transformation frameworks to new datasets.
• Help offshore teams adopt common onboarding standards, delivery practices, and technical templates.
• Contribute to reusable technical assets such as reference implementations, onboarding templates, documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Support both batch and streaming onboarding patterns using AWS services (e.g., AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis) or event‑driven integrations as appropriate.

Data Mastering Platform Integration

• Support integration of platform datasets with the enterprise data mastering platform.
• Help establish and/or maintain data quality controls, reconciliation, and metadata alignment for trusted mastered data.
• Support golden record / golden copy generation and maintenance activities for key financial datasets (as applicable to the program).

Technical Leadership and Engineering Excellence

• Provide technical guidance to engineering peers through code reviews, design reviews, and implementation planning.
• Contribute to engineering standards and delivery rigor across CI/CD, infrastructure automation, testing practices, and operational readiness.
• Help ensure documentation quality and operational discipline (runbooks, support procedures, incident learnings).
• Act as a technical bridge between offshore execution teams and global platform stakeholders to resolve delivery blockers and keep alignment.

AI‑Assisted Engineering and Context Engineering

• Use AI tools (Claude, GitHub CoPilot, LLMs) to accelerate engineering tasks such as drafting code, refactoring, writing documentation, generating unit tests, and troubleshooting.
• Apply basic prompt engineering and context engineering practices by providing the right technical background, constraints, schemas, examples, and acceptance criteria to improve output quality.
• Validate and verify AI‑generated outputs before adoption, especially for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Follow responsible AI usage expectations, including protection of sensitive data, credentials, and regulated information.

Required Qualifications

Technical Experience

• 5–7+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or related technical domains.
• Hands‑on experience building and operating batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Experience working with Databricks‑based platforms and lakehouse architectures.
• Strong familiarity with AWS data engineering services such as Amazon S3, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS IAM.
• Working knowledge of Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Databricks Unity Catalog (or equivalent governed lakehouse concepts).
• Solid understanding of data quality, schema management, lineage/metadata basics, access control, encryption, and operational support.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Ability to provide technical guidance without people management responsibility.
• Experience collaborating with global teams across time zones and working through ambiguous delivery problems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical requirements into implementable tasks.

AI Tooling (Required)

• Practical experience using AI‑ass