Python Developer Lead

Techstar Group; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TechStar Group in Hyderabad is seeking a Python Lead with 8+ years of experience to own data analytics and visualization architectures.

You will lead a team of engineers, shape the technology roadmap, and ensure high-quality code, scalable data pipelines, and impactful analytics outputs for stakeholders.

This role demands mentoring, strong communication, and the ability to translate business needs into technical specs while collaborating across data science, product, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data analytics or technical leadership.
• Strong Python expertise with Pandas for large-scale data manipulation.
• Proven SQL/MySQL design, optimization, and data-intensive problem solving.
• Experience leading engineering teams and shaping architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture for data analytics and visualization applications using Python.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, including hiring input and performance guidance.
• Make key technology and design decisions on storage, services, and tooling.
• Set coding standards and review practices across the team.
• Act as primary technical point of contact across teams and geographies.
• Drive agile processes, sprint planning, estimation, and quality/timeline commitments.
• Own projects end-to-end from concept to delivery and monitoring.
• Translate business requirements into technical specs for the team.
• Design, review, and optimize complex SQL queries at scale.
• Guide data visualization outputs for technical and executive stakeholders.
• Report progress to senior leadership with risks and trade-offs visibility.
• Collaborate across data science, product, and infrastructure stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Pandas

NLTK

AWS

SQL

MySQL

Matplotlib

Plotly

Seaborn

JavaScript

Shell scripting

Leadership

Data analytics

Communication

Education

Master's degree (B.Tech/MCA) or equivalent

Tools

NLTK

AWS

Job description

Role; Python Lead

Exp: 8+ Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 days

Work Location: Hyderabad

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture for data analytics and visualization applications, with Python as the primary stack
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers across maintenance, new feature builds, and analytics initiatives including hiring input and performance guidance
• Make key technology and design decisions : storage strategy, service boundaries, and tooling choices
• Set and enforce coding standards, review practices, and technical best practices across the team
• Proactively identify systemic technical risks and resolve escalations; act as the primary technical point of contact across teams and geographies
• Drive the agile process for your team — sprint planning, estimation, and ensuring deliverables meet quality and timeline commitments
• Own projects end-to-end: from conceptualization and technical design through execution, delivery, and post-launch monitoring
• Translate ambiguous business requirements into clear technical specifications for the team to execute against
• Design, review, and optimize complex SQL queries and data-intensive operations at scale
• Guide the design of data visualization outputs and analytics deliverables for both technical and executive stakeholders
• Report project and team progress to senior leadership, with clear visibility into risks and trade-offs
• Represent the team in cross-functional collaboration with data science, product, and infrastructure stakeholders

Skills

Primary

• Expert-level Python, with deep experience in Pandas for large-scale data manipulation (NumPy a plus)
• Practical experience with NLTK or comparable NLP libraries for text analytics
• Strong AWS experience across compute, storage, and data services

Data & Querying

• Expert-level SQL and MySQL; able to design, review, and optimize complex queries at scale
• Proven experience handling data-intensive, high-volume operations and diagnosing performance bottlenecks

Visualization & Web

• Familiarity with visualization libraries (Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn) or BI tooling
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, XML, XHTML, HTML5, CSS
• Experience integrating and architecting around third-party web services and APIs

Automation & Systems

• Strong Shell scripting for automation and operational tooling
• Excellent verbal and written communication — able to represent technical decisions to non-technical and senior stakeholders

Leadership

• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring engineering teams
• Experience owning technical roadmaps and making architecture-level trade-off decisions
• Track record of running or significantly shaping code review culture

Desired Candidate Profile

• Master's Degree (B.Tech/MCA) or equivalent practical experience
• 8–10 years of experience, with a significant portion in a technical leadership or lead-developer capacity
• Strong programming, debugging, and systems-level problem-solving skills
• Proven ownership of code review processes and engineering standards, not just participation in them
• Strong leadership qualities — able to set direction, delegate effectively, and be accountable for team output
• Experience managing or closely coordinating with geographically distributed teams
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making calls when specs are incomplete