Senior Data Engineer

Cornerstone Research; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite role

Job summary

Cornerstone seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and operate data pipelines, orchestrate ETL/ELT workflows, and build data products for analytics teams. You will work hands-on with dbt, Snowflake, Airflow and cloud platforms, ensuring data quality and security across finance, HR, and customer success domains.

The role emphasizes production-grade data pipelines, collaboration with data scientists and cross-functional teams, and continuous improvement in data infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases and database design.
• Experience with cloud Data Warehouse solutions – Databricks, Apache Spark.
• Experience with data ingestion tools such as Fivetran, stitch, or Matillion.
• Working knowledge of Cloud-based solutions (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain batch or real-time data pipelines in production.
• Maintain and optimize data infrastructure for ETL.
• Develop ETL processes to extract and manipulate data from multiple sources.
• Automate data workflows such as data ingestion, aggregation, and ETL processing.
• Prepare raw data in Data Warehouses into consumable datasets for stakeholders.
• Partner with data scientists to deploy ML models in production.
• Build, maintain data products for analytics and data science teams on cloud platforms.
• Ensure data accuracy, privacy, security, and compliance.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Relational databases

Python

Java

C++

Scala

Bash

ML model deployment

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Airflow

Fivetran

Job description

Senior Data Engineer

This role is Office Based,Hyderabad Office

We are seeking a talented Senior Data Engineerin India. The right candidate has strong communication skills, passion for solving business problems with data and has domain knowledge in Finance, Human Resources, and Customer Success. You have empathy, curiosity and desire to improve and constantly learn. Should be hands-on with dbt, Snowflake, Airflow, Fivetran, and has a proven track record of driving the best practices and processes, building data models and ETL loads.

In this role you will…

• Design, build and maintain batch or real-time data pipelines in production.


• Maintain and optimize the data infrastructure required for accurate extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.


• Develop ETL (extract, transform, load) processes to help extract and manipulate data from multiple sources.


• Automate data workflows such as data ingestion, aggregation, and ETL processing.


• Prepare raw data in Data Warehouses into a consumable dataset for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Partner with data scientists and functional leaders in sales, marketing, and product to deploy machine learning models in production.


• Build, maintain, and deploy data products for analytics and data science teams on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).


• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, privacy, security, and compliance through quality control procedures.


• Monitor data systems performance and implement optimization strategies.


• Leverage data controls to maintain data privacy, security, compliance, and quality for allocated areas of ownership.

You have what it takes if you have…

• Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases and database design.


• Experience working with cloud Data Warehouse solutions – Databricks, Apache Spark


• Experience working with data ingestion tools such as Fivetran, stitch, or Matillion.


• Working knowledge of Cloud-based solutions (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).


• Experience building and deploying machine learning models in production.


• Strong proficiency in object-oriented languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala.


• Strong proficiency in scripting languages like Bash.


• Strong proficiency in data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g., Airflow).


• Strong project management and organizational skills.


• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.


• Proven ability to work independently and with a team.

Extra dose of awesome if you have…

• Good understanding of NoSQL databases like CrateDB, Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, or Neo4j.


• Experience with working on large data sets and distributed computing (e.g. Hive/Hadoop/Spark/Presto/MapReduce).

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