Lead Data Engineer

Aptean; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptean is looking for a Lead Data Engineer in India to design, build, and maintain a scalable enterprise data lakehouse using Microsoft Fabric. This role is crucial for advancing our data platform, enabling analytics and AI-driven insights.

The ideal candidate should have 7–10 years of experience in data engineering, strong skills in data modeling, and a passion for applying AI to enhance data processes. Required to work in shift: Yes, from 1 pm to 10 pm.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in data engineering.
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing large-scale data platforms.
• Strong technical foundation in data modeling and database architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust data ingestion pipelines using Microsoft Fabric.
• Implement data quality checks to ensure data integrity.
• Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to support evolving analytics needs.

Skills

Data Engineering

Data Modeling

ETL/ELT Pipelines

Microsoft Fabric

Data Quality Frameworks

DevOps Practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree

Tools

Power BI

Delta Lake

Job description

Job Identification

Job Title: Lead Data Engineer

Job Level: D

Reports To: Full line: Shreeram Neelavar Bhat

General Job Summary

Aptean is seeking a hands‑on, results‑driven data engineering professional to design, build, and maintain a scalable enterprise data lakehouse using Microsoft Fabric, following the medallion architecture. This role is key to advancing our enterprise data platform, enabling analytics, enterprise reporting, and AI‑driven insights. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in data modeling, data lakehouse technologies, and a passion for leveraging AI to optimize and enrich data processes wherever possible.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable data ingestion pipelines using Microsoft Fabric (Pipelines, Dataflows, Notebooks) to integrate data from business applications and external APIs.
• Perform deep source system analysis to define ingestion strategies that ensure data reliability, consistency, and observability, while applying metadata‑driven design for automation.
• Develop and maintain Delta Tables using the medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) to systematically cleanse, enrich, and standardize data for downstream consumption.
• Implement comprehensive data quality checks (nulls, duplicates, schema drift, outliers, SCD types) and ensure data integrity across all transformation layers in the lakehouse.
• Apply governance practices including schema versioning, data lineage tracking, role‑based access control (RBAC), and audit trails to ensure compliance, traceability, and secure data access.
• Build semantic models and define business‑aligned KPIs to support self‑service analytics and dashboarding in Power BI and other BI platforms.
• Structure the gold layer and semantic model to support AI/ML use cases, ensuring datasets are enriched, contextualized, and optimized for AI agent consumption.
• Develop and maintain AI‑ready run flows and access patterns to enable seamless integration between the lakehouse and AI agents for tasks such as prediction, summarization, and decision automation.
• Implement DevOps best practices for pipeline versioning, testing, deployment, and monitoring; proactively detect and resolve data integration and processing issues.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with analysts, data scientists, and business users to ensure the data platform supports evolving needs for analytics, operational reporting, and AI innovation.

Job Specifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Preferred: Master’s degree.

Work Experience: 7–10 years in data engineering.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Competencies

• Deep expertise in data engineering with hands‑on experience in designing and implementing large‑scale data platforms, including data warehouses, lakehouse, and modern ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Proven ability to build, deploy, and troubleshoot highly reliable, distributed data pipelines integrating structured and unstructured data from various internal systems and external sources.
• Strong technical foundation in data modeling, database architecture, and data transformation techniques using a medallion architecture within Microsoft Fabric or similar platforms.
• Solid understanding of data lakehouse patterns and Delta Lake / OneLake concepts, with the ability to structure data models that are AI/ML‑ready and support semantic modeling.
• Experience implementing data quality frameworks including checks for nulls, duplicates, schema drift, outliers, and slowly changing dimensions (SCD types).
• Familiarity with data governance, including schema versioning, data lineage, access controls (RBAC), and audit logging to ensure secure and compliant data practices.
• Working knowledge of data visualization tools such as Power BI with the ability to support and optimize semantic layers and KPI definitions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex data engineering solutions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and to lead cross‑functional initiatives.
• Experience with DevOps practices, including version control, CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and performance monitoring in a data engineering context.

Shift Details

Required to work in shift: Yes. Shift timing: 1 pm to 10 pm.