Senior Data Engineer

CSC; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

CSC leads data engineering initiatives to power AI-enabled products, with a focus on trusted, permissioned, and explainable data. The role partners across product, architecture, AI engineering, platform, security, risk, and MLOps/LLMOps.

The Expert Data Engineer works on pipelines, data products, governance, and retrieval-ready knowledge assets, ensuring data quality and operational readiness for AI applications at scale in a hybrid work environment in Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• Pipeline engineering, data product development, and data quality monitoring.
• Metadata, cataloging, and lineage management.
• Access control and sensitive data handling.
• Cloud data platforms and lakehouse/warehouse patterns.
• Experience with StarBurst is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own AI-ready data engineering — translate AI product needs into data pipelines and data products for RAG, agents, analytics, and decision support; ensure data is complete, accurate, timely traceable, and reusable across products and business units; engineer for scale, security, and cost efficiency.
• Build trusted data products — define governed data products across client, entity, product, transaction, finance, risk, vendor, and reference domains, with clear ownership, SLAs, quality expectations, and refresh rules; reduce reliance on spreadsheets and duplicate extracts; partner with data stewards on quality and ownership issues.
• Engineer data for RAG and knowledge-based AI — prepare policies, contracts, regulatory content, and operational knowledge for retrieval; define ingestion, chunking, embedding, indexing, and retirement processes; design vector stores, ranking, and grounding/citation patterns with AI engineering; ensure sources are approved, current, and access‑controlled.
• Own data quality and trust controls — define and monitor quality rules (completeness, accuracy, validity, timeliness) for critical data elements; build automated checks and remediation workflows into pipelines; ensure AI products can detect missing, stale, or conflicting data; provide quality evidence for risk and product acceptance.
• Manage metadata, catalog, and lineage — capture business and technical metadata for datasets, pipelines, and vector indexes; ensure assets are cataloged and discoverable; document lineage from source through transformation, embedding, and output for auditability; partner with governance on definitions and ownership.
• Embed access, privacy, and security controls — implement role‑, attribute‑, jurisdiction‑, and purpose‑based access so AI products only use authorized data; prevent sensitive data exposure through prompts, logs, embeddings, or outputs; meet minimization, retention, masking, and audit‑logging requirements; support security/privacy reviews.
• Support AI data lifecycle operations — monitor pipeline reliability, latency, freshness, and cost; refresh and version datasets, embeddings, and indexes on appropriate schedules; support rollback; partner with MLOps/LLMOps on evaluation and grounding datasets; drive continuous improvement from feedback and production monitoring.

Skills

Data engineering

AI data handling

Leadership

StarBurst

Tools

StarBurst

Job description

Introduction to the Job

The AI Data Engineering Lead owns the design, build, governance, and operational readiness of the pipelines, data products, and retrieval-ready knowledge assets that power AI-enabled products — ensuring AI is built on trusted, permissioned, explainable, and reusable data rather than fragmented or ungoverned sources. The role partners across product, architecture, AI engineering, platform, security, risk, compliance, and MLOps/LLMOps.

Job Description

Title: Expert Data Engineer

Shift: 11:00AM - 8:00PM

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Bangalore

AI Data Engineering Lead

The AI Data Engineering Lead owns the design, build, governance, and operational readiness of the pipelines, data products, and retrieval-ready knowledge assets that power AI-enabled products — ensuring AI is built on trusted, permissioned, explainable, and reusable data rather than fragmented or ungoverned sources. The role partners across product, architecture, AI engineering, platform, security, risk, compliance, and MLOps/LLMOps.

Some of the things you’ll be doing

• Own AI-ready data engineering — translate AI product needs into data pipelines and data products for RAG, agents, analytics, and decision support; ensure data is complete, accurate, timely traceable, and reusable across products and business units; engineer for scale, security, and cost efficiency.
• Build trusted data products — define governed data products across client, entity, product, transaction, finance, risk, vendor, and reference domains, with clear ownership, SLAs, quality expectations, and refresh rules; reduce reliance on spreadsheets and duplicate extracts; partner with data stewards on quality and ownership issues.
• Engineer data for RAG and knowledge-based AI — prepare policies, contracts, regulatory content, and operational knowledge for retrieval; define ingestion, chunking, embedding, indexing, and retirement processes; design vector stores, ranking, and grounding/citation patterns with AI engineering; ensure sources are approved, current, and access‑controlled.
• Own data quality and trust controls — define and monitor quality rules (completeness, accuracy, validity, timeliness) for critical data elements; build automated checks and remediation workflows into pipelines; ensure AI products can detect missing, stale, or conflicting data; provide quality evidence for risk and product acceptance.
• Manage metadata, catalog, and lineage — capture business and technical metadata for datasets, pipelines, and vector indexes; ensure assets are cataloged and discoverable; document lineage from source through transformation, embedding, and output for auditability; partner with governance on definitions and ownership.
• Embed access, privacy, and security controls — implement role‑, attribute‑, jurisdiction‑, and purpose‑based access so AI products only use authorized data; prevent sensitive data exposure through prompts, logs, embeddings, or outputs; meet minimization, retention, masking, and audit‑logging requirements; support security/privacy reviews.
• Support AI data lifecycle operations — monitor pipeline reliability, latency, freshness, and cost; refresh and version datasets, embeddings, and indexes on appropriate schedules; support rollback; partner with MLOps/LLMOps on evaluation and grounding datasets; drive continuous improvement from feedback and production monitoring.

What technical skills, experience, and qualifications do you need?

Data engineering:

pipeline engineering and orchestration (ETL/ELT, API/event‑driven integration); data product development and modeling; data quality rule design and monitoring; metadata, cataloging, and lineage; master/reference data awareness; access control and sensitive data handling; cloud data platforms and lakehouse/warehouse patterns. Any prior experience with StarBurst will be an added advantage.

AI data:

RAG data preparation and document/knowledge ingestion; chunking, embeddings, vector stores, and semantic retrieval; grounding and evaluation datasets; dataset versioning; data prep for AI agents/copilots; freshness, retrieval quality, and source governance; AI data observability; permission‑aware retrieval; prevention of sensitive data leakage.

Business and leadership:

translating business/product needs into data requirements; strong grasp of data ownership and stewardship; explaining quality and lineage issues to leaders; collaboration across product, AI, architecture, security, and risk; judgment on centralize vs. federate vs. reuse; problem‑solving with incomplete or conflicting data; building reusable capabilities over one‑off extracts.

About Us

CSC is a global business, legal, and financial services company based in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, providing knowledge‑based solutions to clients worldwide. We have offices and capabilities in over 140 jurisdictions in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, and more than 8,000 colleagues. We are the business behind business.®

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CSC colleagues have global career opportunities and excellent benefits, including annual success‑sharing bonuses or commission plans based on individual performance. To learn more, visit cscglobal.com/service/careers .

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About The Team

At CSC®, we’re always looking ahead, finding ways to innovate, challenge the status quo, and anticipate the needs of our clients. We exceed expectations by adapting client ambitions and goals as our own. This Fierce Client Spirit has helped us adapt and create solutions that have enabled businesses to run smoother and smarter for more than 125 years. It’s also the reason we’re the trusted partner of many of the world’s most successful organizations.

CSC is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining talented people whose values align with ours. We empower our colleagues to bring the right solutions to market to meet client demand. That’s why we are the leading provider of business administration and compliance solutions.

• CSC is a great place to work with smart and dedicated people.
• We have won several employer recognition awards, including Top Workplace USA, Great Places to Work India, and Built In’s Best Places to Work.
• We offer fulfilling work and career opportunities. Most positions are filled with internal moves and employee referrals.
• Employees are eligible for Success Sharing, bonuses, or commission plans based on role and individual performance.
• CSC offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes annual leave, tuition reimbursement, referral bonuses, and more.
• As business needs allow, CSC offers hybrid or remote work schedules in alignment with local regulations. Specific details for this position will be discussed during the interview process.

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Disclaimer: The information above describes the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not intended to describe all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications.