Data Engineering Engineer II

TekWissen India; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

TekWissen India in Chennai is seeking an Advanced Data Engineer / Technical Anchor to design enterprise-grade cloud data solution architectures using Python, Cloud Dataproc, BigQuery, Astro (Airflow), and Terraform.

You will act as a technical lead and architectural authority across engineering teams and business leadership, guiding complex data platforms and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 4+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience designing enterprise-grade Cloud Data Architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead enterprise-grade cloud data architectures using Python, Dataproc, BigQuery, Airflow and Terraform.
• Act as technical anchor and architectural authority across engineering and business teams.
• Establish CI/CD standards (Tekton, GitHub) and security controls (Checkmarx, FOSSA, SonarQube).
• Govern Cloud Run audit signals, GCS log archival, and mentor engineers for long-term value.

Skills

Python

BigQuery

Cloud Dataproc

Terraform

Tekton

Cloud Run

Airflow

PostgreSQL

GCP

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Dataproc

Spark

BigQuery

Terraform

Tekton

Cloud Run

Airflow

GitHub

Checkmarx

Job description

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid (4 Days work From Office)

• 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 organizational 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 maximize the long-term strategic value of our data platform.

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below client is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title: Data Engineering Engineer II

Location: Chennai

Work Type: Hybrid (4 Days work From Office)

Position 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 organizational 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 maximize the long-term strategic value of our data platform.

Skills Required

• Google Cloud Platform (Biq Query, Dataproc, TERRAFORM, Tekton, Cloud Run, AIRFLOW, POSTGRES, Python)

Skills Preferred

• Security scanning controls (Checkmarx, FOSSA, SonarQube)

Experience Required

• Engineer II Exp: 4+ years Data Engineering work experience

Experience Preferred

• Expert mastery of Python, distributed computing with Spark on Cloud Dataproc, and advanced BigQuery data modeling, query optimization, and cost management.

Education Required

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Information

• 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 organizational goals.
• Provide strategic advice on "build vs. buy" decisions to maximize long-term business value.
• IaC & CI/CD Strategy: Establish organizational standards for Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Standardize automated release pipelines via GitHub and Tekton, embedding mandatory quality, security, and license compliance controls (Checkmarx, FOSSA, SonarQube).
• High-Performance Distributed Processing: Architect and optimize 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 organizational 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 organizational technical excellence internally and externally (tech talks, blogs, open-source).

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.