Senior Data Engineer

Serko Limited; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

Medical benefits

Discretionary incentive plan

Learning & development platform

Flexible work policy

Job summary

Serko Limited is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape and scale our modern data platform in Bengaluru. You will own ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data quality to deliver reliable data solutions across the business.

Collaborate with Architects and Engineers to design scalable systems and drive high-velocity data outcomes. You will work with Snowflake and BigQuery, build robust data models with dbt, and code in SQL, Python, and PowerShell.

Qualifications

• Proven data engineering experience with large-scale data platforms.
• Hands-on with SQL, Python and dbt in cloud environments.
• Experience with data governance, quality and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and resilient data solutions in collaboration with architects and engineers.
• Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines for batch and streaming workloads.
• Coordinate with Platform, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure performance, security and durability.
• Develop data models using dbt and orchestrate workflows across Azure and Google Cloud.
• Manage data warehouses on Snowflake and BigQuery and enhance data governance practices.
• Write clean code in dbt, SQL, Python, and PowerShell; improve existing scripts.

Skills

SQL proficiency

dbt experience

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile/DevOps familiarity

Data modeling

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

SQL

Python

PowerShell

MongoDB

Cosmos DB

Job description

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact. There's an exciting road ahead of us, where travel needs real, impactful change. With offices in New Zealand, Australia, North America, and China, we are thrilled to be expanding our global footprint, landing our new hub in Bengaluru, India. With rapid a growth plan in place for India, we’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with a strong background in data engineering to help shape and scale our modern data platform.

This is a high-impact role where you'll work across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data quality to ensure reliable, secure and high-performing data solutions that support teams across the business.

What you’ll be doing

Here’s how you’ll get to make that happen:

• Collaborate with Architects and Principal Engineers to design scalable and resilient data solutions as part of a team of five
• Build, maintain, and optimise data pipelines across batch and streaming workloads
• Leverage Agentic delivery practices to deliver Data outcomes with high velocity and high quality
• Coordinate with Platform, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure data platform solutions are designed for performance, security, durability and scalability
• Develop robust data models using dbt and orchestrate workflows via both Azure and Google Clouds
• Manage and enhance our cloud data warehouses on Snowflake and BigQuery
• Ensure best practice in data governance, cataloguing, observability and security
• Write clean and efficient code in dbt, SQL, Python, and PowerShell
• Improve existing complex SQL, PowerShell, and Python used in both SQL-based and non-SQL-based OLTP and OLAP systems
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful data products
• Participate in a light rotating on-call schedule (approximately one week per month)

What you’ll bring to the team

• Deep understanding of data warehouse, data lake, and modern data engineering and the ability to communicate such
• Practice experience working in an agile development environment and familiarity with DevOps culture
• Hands-on expertise with Snowflake (or equivalent modern cloud DWH)
• Advanced skills in SQL and experience using dbt
• Familiarity with data governance and metadata management
• Experience with Data Vault 2.0 or NoSQL technologies (e.g., MongoDB, Cosmos DB) is a plus
• Comfortable working across teams and translating business needs into scalable data solutions
• Passion for clean, scalable, secure and performant data solutions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, solution-focused mindset
• A growth mindset and openness to feedback

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work. This means you’ll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:

• A competitive base pay
• Medical Benefits
• Discretionary incentive plan based on individual and company performance
• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform and opportunity for you to own your career pathways
• Flexible work policy.