Lead Data Engineer

First Citizens India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens India seeks a Lead Data Engineer to spearhead the development and maintenance of large-scale data platforms, data lakes, and cloud solutions at our Bengaluru location. You will design and build data pipelines for enterprise data through ETL/ELT processes, ensuring data governance and security.

The role involves collaborating with global technology teams, managing delivery, and driving automation to optimize data flows while supporting critical business functions such as Regulatory

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in designing and building Data Warehouse and Data Lakes.
• Strong knowledge of data warehouse principles, concepts, and modeling.
• Cloud-based data platform experience especially Snowflake and AWS.
• Expertise in design and development of complex data pipelines.
• Experience with Unix, Python or equivalent scripting language.
• Strong SQL, stored procedures, and data integrity troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build, and maintain enterprise data platform and pipelines.
• Create ingestion and integration patterns for Enterprise Data Warehouse, ODS, and Data Marts.
• Tune performance of data pipelines and database objects for efficiency.
• Collaborate with global teams across time zones to deliver value.
• Provide technical risk assessment and release coordination.

Skills

Data Warehouse design

Data Lakes

SQL Expert

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python

Unix

Tools

IBM Data Stage

SSIS

SAP BO Data Services (BODS)

DBT

AWS Glue

Snowflake

Snowpark

Control-M

GitLab

Job description

Job Description

Value Preposition

• Lead the development and maintenance of large-scale data platforms, data lakes and cloud solutions.
• Responsible for designing and building data pipelines for enterprise data through ETL/ELT processes.

Job Details

Position Title: Lead Data Engineer

Career Level: P3

Job Category: Manager

Role Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Bangalore

About the Team:

The data engineering team is community of dedicated professionals committed to designing, building, and maintaining data platform solutions for the organization.

Impact

Enterprise data warehouse supports several critical business functions for the bank including Regulatory Reporting, Finance, Risk steering, and Customer 360. This role is vital for building and maintaining enterprise data platform, data processes, and to support business objectives. Our values — inclusivity, transparency, and excellence — drive everything we do. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the organization.

Key Deliverables

• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data platform that supports data integrations for Enterprise Data Warehouse, Operational Data Store or Data Marts etc. with appropriate data access, data security, data privacy and data governance.
• Establish enterprise-scale data integration procedures, data pipelines and frameworks across the data development life cycle. Suggest and implement appropriate technologies to deliver resilient, scalable, and future-proof data solutions.
• Create data ingestion pipelines in data warehouses and other large-scale data platforms.
• Creating scheduled as well as trigger-based ingestion patterns using scheduling tools.
• Create performance optimized DDLs for any row-based or columnar databases such as Oracle, Postgres, Netezza database per Logical Data Model.
• Performance tuning of complex data pipelines and SQL queries.
• Performs impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions.
• Manage deliverables of developers, perform design reviews and coordinate release management activities.
• Estimate and provide timelines for project activities. Identify, document, and communicate technical risks, issues and alternative solutions discovered during project.
• Drive automation, identify inefficiencies, optimize processes and data flows, and recommend improvements.
• Use agile engineering practices and various data development technologies to rapidly develop and implement efficient data products.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to understand PI goals, PI planning, requirement clarification, and delivery coordination.
• Technical support for production incidents and failures
• Work with global technology teams across different time zones (primarily US) to deliver timely business value.

Skills and Qualification

Functional Skills:

• Team Player: Support peers, team, and department management.
• Communication: Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Problem Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills, incident management, root cause analysis, and proactive solutions to improve quality.
• Partnership and Collaboration: Develop and maintain partnership with business and IT stakeholders
• Attention to Detail: Ensure accuracy and thoroughness in all tasks.

Technical/Business Skills:

• Data Engineering:
• 10+ years of experience in designing and building Data Warehouse and Data lakes. Good knowledge of data warehouse principles, and concepts.
• Technical expertise working in large scale Data Warehousing applications and databases such as Oracle, Netezza, Teradata, and SQL Server.
• Cloud-based data platform experience especially Snowflake and AWS.
• Data integration skills:
• Expertise in design and development of complex data pipelines
• Solutions using any industry leading ETL tools such as IBM Data Stage or SSIS or SAP Business Objects Data Services (BODS)
• Experience with Unix, Python or equivalent scripting language
• Basic knowledge of Transform/ELT tools such as DBT, Qlik Replicate, AWS Glue or Snowpark, etc.
• Expert in SQL, stored procedures and adept in tracing and resolving data integrity issues.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data design patterns, modeling
• Data Model: Expertise in Logical and Physical Data Model using Relational, Dimensional or Data Vault Modeling practices with high volume ETL/ELT processes.
• Good experience with scheduling tools such as Control-M
• Performance tuning of data pipelines and DB Objects to deliver optimal performance.
• Experience in Gitlab version control and CI/CD processes.
• Experience working in Financial Industry is a plus.

Relationships & Collaboration

• Reports to: Associate Director - Data Engineering
• Partners: Senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Leads: A team of Data Engineering associates

Accessibility Needs

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you require accommodations at any stage (e.g. application, interviews, onboarding) please let us know, and we will work with you to ensure a seamless experience.