IND IT Application Tech lead

Alight Solutions; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Alight Solutions in India seeks an experienced Data Engineering Tech Lead to drive ETL/ELT pipelines across Hadoop and AWS. You will guide architecture, mentor teams, and deliver scalable data platforms combining Spark, PySpark, and serverless patterns.

Expect strong AWS, Airflow/Control-M expertise, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to enable AI-powered data workflows in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of ETL experience with 2–3 years in a Tech Lead role and 4–6 years on AWS.
• Strong expertise in Big Data (Spark, Cloudera) and end-to-end data pipelines.
• Experience orchestrating AWS Step Functions and designing serverless data architectures.
• Exposure to AI-powered data workflows and agent-based data platforms is a plus.
• Ability to lead design, development and delivery in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the development team and provide technical guidance.
• Design, build, and maintain high volume ETL/ELT pipelines across Hadoop and AWS.
• Develop distributed data processing using PySpark and Spark SQL.
• Implement reusable ingestion frameworks and orchestrations, leverage AI where applicable.
• Optimize data workflows and ensure data governance and security compliance.

Skills

AWS Stack

PySpark

Scala

Spark SQL

HiveQL

Hadoop

Python

Shell

CI/CD

GitHub

Airflow

Control-M

Security Compliance

Docker

ECS/EKS

Tools

Airflow

Control-M

Docker

ECS/EKS

Kubernetes

GitHub

Job description

JD – Data Engineering (ETL) Tech Lead

Experience & Expectations :

• Leverage extensive experience (8 to 12 years overall ETL experience, including 2–3 years in a Technology Lead role & 4–6 years in AWS) to drive solution design and delivery.
• We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead with strong expertise in Big Data (Spark, Cloudera).
• Experience orchestrating complex workflows using AWS Step Functions (state machines) for reliable and scalable data pipelines.
• Ability to design end-to-end serverless data architectures integrating Glue, Lambda, S3, and Redshift
• Candidates with exposure to drive / assist in architecture, development, and delivery of AI-powered data workflows, leveraging agent-based systems to automate data ingestion, transformation, validation, and orchestration along with modern AI paradigms (Agentic AI, LLMs) to design and lead next-generation intelligent data platforms and ETL pipelines will be preferred.

Core Responsibilities :

• Lead and manage the development team by helping them understand the requirements and provide technical guidance
• Design, build, and maintain high volume ETL/ELT pipelines across Hadoop (HDFS, Hive, Spark, Kafka) and AWS (Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift).
• Develop distributed data processing solutions using PySpark, Spark SQL, and scalable cloud serverless patterns.
• Implement reusable data ingestion frameworks for batch, ability to design & implement Orchestration process and Leverage AI
• Optimize data workflows using partitioning, bucketing, compression, file formats (Parquet/ORC).
• Understanding hybrid data lake architectures using S3 + HDFS, ensuring data governance and best practices are adheres
• To lead technical teams and deliver complex projects in an Agile environment
• Design and build the robust, scalable and secure software solutions across the having no/least adoption
• Define clear technical specifications and make architecture decisions that align with business goals and long-term scalability.
• Implement best practices (including secure code guidelines) through the implementation of unit tests, automation, leverage and code reviews. Drive continuous improvement in code quality and maintainability.
• Troubleshooting issues and proactively solving problems as they arise, ensuring the smooth operation of full stack applications
• Ability to understand the data flow diagram, data modelling and Lineages
• Job orchestration using Airflow, Control M, Step Functions, or event-driven triggers.
• Ensure data is protected and compliant with regulatory standards.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to enable high quality datasets.
• Provide technical support in architecture decisions, code reviews, and best practice adoption and provide technical guidance to peers/juniors in team.
• Own deployment, incident response, and post-incident reviews for production environments, troubleshooting Spark performance issues, job failures, and cluster bottlenecks.
• Optimize cost and usage of AWS resources and recommend architecture improvements.
• Collaborate closely with developers, QA and cross product teams to streamline release processes.
• Best Practices Advocacy: Advise teams on CI/CD pipelines, observability, security compliance, and modern development practices.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business strategy
• Expertise in architecture governance, security frameworks, and scalable system design across large organizations

Technical Skills :

• Strong experience with the AWS data stack (S3, Glue, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift, Step Functions etc.,).
• Strong hands‑on expertise in Scala, PySpark, Spark optimization techniques, HiveQL, and distributed computing.
• Good understanding of Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Spark, YARN, Kafka).
• Good work experience in SQL in hive and impala
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language: Python, Shell scripting.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, GitHub, Git commands.
• Expertise in ETL and Data Warehousing and cloud concepts.
• Good understanding of data modelling (star/snowflake), partitioning strategies, and schema evolution.
• Expertise in data profiling and decision making.
• Able to understand, design and create data flow diagrams and do data modelling. (knowledge of Miro will be added advantage)
• Able to understand the architecture and design end‑to‑end data flow.
• Hands‑on experience with Airflow, or Control‑M, or other orchestrators.
• To monitor and support BAU and year end activities, if needed.
• Well versed with security and compliance aspects in Cloud.
• Familiarity with serverless patterns and containerization (Docker, ECS/EKS).
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools and incident management practices.

Other Requirements

• Strong logical and analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
• Communicate effectively and concisely with multiple stakeholders and coordinate and collaborate with cross functional teams.
• Ability to support both legacy Hadoop workloads and cloud‑first architectures.
• AWS certifications (Data Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Developer) are a plus.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities
• Detail‑Oriented and proactive in problem‑solving and issue resolution

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.