Senior Data Quality Engineer

Ciklum; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Community and mentorship

Growth opportunities and large-scale,跨

Learning & certifications

Internal mobility

Health insurance and wellbeing

Job summary

Ciklum is seeking a Senior Data Quality Engineer to join our India team on a full-time basis. You will work within a cross-functional group to validate data pipelines, warehouses, and BI outputs while ensuring data integrity across batch and streaming workloads.

The role requires advanced SQL, experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks) and orchestration tools (dbt, Airflow). Chennai-based, on-site involvement with enterprise data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience testing data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehouse/lakehouse loads.
• Advanced SQL with complex joins, window functions, and aggregates.
• Experience with at least one modern data platform and one orchestration tool.
• Experience building or operating automated data quality checks integrated into pipelines/CI/CD.
• Experience validating BI dashboards and AI/ML models is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Validate data ingestion, transformation, and load processes across batch and streaming pipelines.
• Perform schema, completeness, accuracy, and timeliness checks on data warehouses/lakehouses.
• Conduct source-to-target reconciliation between systems and data platform.
• Develop or use automated data quality checks (Great Expectations, dbt tests, Soda, or similar).
• Validate dashboards/reports against certified data sources and monitor data quality.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data pipelines testing

Data warehouse / lakehouse validation

ETL/ELT testing

BI validation

AI/ML testing

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Data Quality Engineer to join our team full-time in India.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Data Quality Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Responsibilities:

• Data pipeline / ETL-ELT testing: validation of ingestion, transformation, and load processes across batch and streaming pipelines
• Data warehouse and lakehouse validation: schema, completeness, accuracy, uniqueness, referential integrity, and timeliness
• Source-to-target reconciliation: row counts, aggregate balancing, and field-level validation between operational systems (POS, e-commerce, OMS, ERP) and the data platform
• Data quality automation: automated data validation frameworks (Great Expectations, dbt tests, Soda, or custom SQL frameworks) integrated into pipeline orchestration and CI/CD
• BI and reporting validation: testing dashboards and reports metric definitions, aggregations, and drill-down accuracy - against certified sources
• Data migration and conversion testing in support of platform initiatives
• Regression testing of data models and semantic layers when upstream schemas or business rules change
• Testing and validation of AI ML models plus Conversational BI including deep reasoning
• Data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and data incident triage support. Compliance-aware test practices for customer and transaction data (CCPA/GDPR, PCI-DSS), including masked/synthetic data usage
• Compliance-aware test practices for customer and transaction data (CCPA/GDPR, PCI-DSS), including masked/synthetic data usage

Requirements:

• Hands-on professional experience testing data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehouse/lakehouse loads — not merely application testing of data-adjacent features
• Advanced SQL proficiency, including complex joins, window functions, and aggregate reconciliation queries; proficiency will be verified during interviews and/or a practical assessment
• Experience with at least one modern data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, Incorta, BigQuery, or Redshift) and one orchestration/transformation toolchain (dbt, Airflow, Informatica, or Spark)
• Experience building or operating automated data quality checks (Great Expectations, dbt tests, Soda, or custom frameworks) integrated into pipelines or CI/CD
• Experience validating BI dashboards and reports against certified data sources
• Experience validating AI ML models plus Conversational BI (text to SQL) including deep reasoning
• Retail data domain exposure (e.g., sales/transaction data, inventory, product/merchandising hierarchies, customer/loyalty data) — strongly preferred

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

India is a strategic innovation hub for Ciklum, with growing teams in Chennai and Pune leading advancements in EdgeTech, AR/VR, IoT, and beyond. Join us to collaborate on game-changing solutions and take your career to the next level.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.