IND Principal Data Engineer

The Hartford India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford India is seeking a dynamic IND Director, Applied AI and Analytics to lead large data ecosystems and AI pipelines across the enterprise. You will drive real-time streams, data products, and graph databases while mentoring senior engineers and champions of agile delivery.

Responsibilities include guiding architecture simplification, reliability, and governance, and partnering with sponsors to advance Hartford's strategic analytics initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7–8 years in technology leadership with multi-team delivery.
• 10+ years data engineering experience including SQL/NoSQL, Snowflake, ETL/ELT tools, CI/CD, Bigdata, Cloud Technologies (AWS/Google/AZURE), Python/Spark, Datamesh, Datalake or Data Fabric.
• Proven Agile leadership (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and coaching skills (3+ years)
• Successful management of 3–4 scrum teams (3+ years)
• Coaching and Mentoring skills (3+ years)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management (3+ years)
• Proven delivery of GenAI-enabled engineering workflows with human-in-the-loop controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to build and operate large and complex data ecosystems leveraging data domains, data products, cloud and modern tech stacks.
• Oversee Data and AI pipelines integrating structured, semi-structured and unstructured data for AI/Agentic solutions.
• Implement real-time data streaming using Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming, etc.
• Stay updated on GenAI; lead prototypes, experiments, and tool adoption.
• Champion data engineering productivity improvements across the delivery lifecycle.
• Design and develop graph databases for complex data relationships supporting AI systems.
• Implement reliability engineering best practices including DR and fault tolerance.
• Simplify architectures to increase velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Enable data-driven decisions aligning with Hartford’s growth agenda.
• Cultivate a strong data culture enterprise-wide.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Agile leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud technologies

Python/Spark

GenAI

Tools

Snowflake

ETL/ELT tools

CI/CD

Rally

Job description

IND Director, Applied AI and Analytics - GCC145

We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead teams to build and operate large and complex data ecosystem leveraging data domains, data products, cloud and modern technology stack
• Lead teams responsible for Implementing Data and AI pipelines that bring together structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to support AI and Agentic solutions. This Includes pre-processing with extraction, chunking, embedding and grounding strategies to get the data ready.
• Lead teams implementing real time data streaming pipelinesusing technologies such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Spark streaming, or similar.
• Stay up to date with industry advancements in GenAI and apply modern technologies and methodologies to our systems. This includes leading prototypes (POCs), conducting experiments, and recommending innovative tools and technologies to enhance data capabilities enabling business strategy.
• Identify and Champion AI driven Data Engineering productivity improvements capabilities accelerating end-to-end data delivery lifecycle.
• Lead teams designing and developing graph database solutions for complex data relationships supporting AI systems, this also includes developing and optimizing queries (e.g., Cyhper, SPARQL) to enable complex reasoning, relationship discovery, and contextual enrichment for AI agents.
• Lead Implementation of best practices in reliability engineering, including redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Simplify architectures to increase velocity, quality, and reliability
• Enable data-driven decisions that advance The Hartford’s strategic growth agenda
• Champion a strong data culture across the enterprise
• Own outcomes for programs/portfolios; establish delivery strategy, guardrails, and success metrics
• Drive execution from initiation through release and stabilization; manage scope, estimates, schedules, risks/issues
• Promote advanced Agile behaviors, coach teams toward self-organization and continuous improvement
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for sponsors and leaders; proactively manage risks and dependencies
• Mentor Scrum Masters/Data Engineers/Tech Leads; coordinate partner resources; uphold engineering and documentation standards
• Align delivery with technical design; leverage knowledge of modern data stacks (AWS, Snowflake, ETL/ELT), CI/CD, and DevOps)
• Support the development and implementation of project and portfolio strategy, roadmaps, and implementations
• Operationalizing GitHub Copilot and Snowflake Copilot across multiple scrum teams with review standards and SDLC governance
• Own portfolio‑level AI adoption metrics (hours saved per sprint, PR review effort, pipeline lead‑time, retrieval success rate); publish quarterly accelerator impact to EDS leadership.
• Standardize Copilot review gates and agent guardrails; achieve ≥20% reduction in boilerplate coding time and ≥15% improvement in documentation completeness.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7 to 8 years in technology leadership/delivery/program/project management with complex, multi-team initiatives
• Overall 10+ years of data engineering experience including Data solutions, SQL and NoSQL, Snowflake, ETL/ELT tools, CICD, Bigdata, Cloud Technologies (AWS/Google/AZURE), Python/Spark, Datamesh, Datalake or Data Fabric.
• Demonstrated Agile leadership (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) and coaching skills (3+ years intermediate/expert)
• Successful management of 3-4 scrum teams (3+ years intermediate/expert)
• Coaching and Mentoring skills (3+ years intermediate/expert)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management (3+ years intermediate/expert)
• Proficiency with delivery tooling (Rally, dashboards) and SDLC governance(3+ years intermediate/expert)
• Proven delivery of GenAI‑enabled engineering workflows (prompt‑to‑SQL, pipeline scaffolds, doc/runbook generation) with human‑in‑the‑loop controls.

Nice to Have

• Experience in data and analytics delivery and cloud migration (AWS/Snowflake)
• Certifications: SAFe (SPC/RTE), PMP, PgMP, CSM/PSM
• Background leading vendor/partner teams and optimizing onshore/offshore models
• Cloud certifications preferred