Senior Solutions Engineer

Straive; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Straive in Mumbai seeks an experienced Senior Software/Data Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade data solutions. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, model Snowflake datasets, and ensure governance, security, and performance across enterprise-scale data products.

Strong AWS and Python/Java skills required, with CI/CD and AI-assisted development mindset. Responsibilities include collaboration with stakeholders, deployment ownership, and ongoing optimization of systems for

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software/data engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade systems with data products.
• Deep AWS experience including core compute, storage, security, and serverless/event-driven architectures.
• Strong Snowflake data modelling, SQL tuning, governance, and cost/performance optimization.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Java with solid APIs, testing, packaging, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with AI-enabled solutions and AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end production-grade software and data solutions.
• Develop reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products across data sources.
• Model and optimise Snowflake datasets and structures for performance and governance.
• Apply strong software engineering practices, testing, and maintainable architecture.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions.
• Own deployment, release, production operations, and incident resolution.
• Leverage AWS AI services and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Python

Java

AWS

Snowflake

Data pipelines

CI/CD

AI/ML tooling

Production ops

Data governance

GIT / DevOps

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Eng/Data Science

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Python

Java

CI/CD tooling

GitHub Copilot / AI tools

Job description

• Design, build, and operate production-grade software and data solutions end-to-end, from problem definition and architecture through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Design and implement reliable, scalable, secure, and well-governed data pipelines and data products using AWS and Snowflake across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Model, curate, and optimise Snowflake datasets, schemas, and data structures in line with enterprise platform standards, ensuring performance, quality, consistency, and usability for downstream consumers.
• Apply strong software engineering practices, including clean code, modular design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, secure development, and maintainable architecture.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions, prioritise delivery, and identify opportunities to enable advanced analytics and AI use cases.
• Use AI-assisted engineering as a standard part of daily development work to accelerate coding, refactoring, documentation, testing, debugging, and solution exploration while maintaining strong engineering judgement and quality standards.
• Build cloud-native integrations and automation on AWS, making effective use of services such as compute, storage, networking, security, orchestration, event-driven architectures, and managed AI services where appropriate.
• Own deployment, release, and production operations, including troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, incident resolution, peer code reviews, pair programming, and reuse of proven engineering patterns.

You will have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial
• Intelligence / Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of professional experience in a hands-on software engineering, solution engineering, or data
• engineering role, with a proven track record of delivering production-grade systems in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate data products, cloud services, or AI-enabled solutions with measurable business outcomes and clear operational ownership.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience is required, including practical knowledge of core services for compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, orchestration, monitoring, and serverless or event-driven architectures. AWS certification is preferred, ideally AWS Certified
• Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate, or AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate.
• Deep hands-on Snowflake experience is required, including data modelling, SQL performance tuning, pipeline integration, access control, cost/performance optimisation, data sharing, and platform governance. SnowPro® Core Certification or advanced Snowflake certifications are a plus.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Java, with solid understanding of software design principles, APIs, automated testing, packaging, dependency management, and production maintainability.
• Experience with AWS AI services, including Amazon Bedrock, and familiarity with agent-based AI solution patterns, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation, guardrails, and responsible AI practices is preferred.
• Demonstrated habit of using AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar tools as part of everyday development to improve productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery speed.
• Familiarity with harness engineering or similar AI-assisted development concepts, including structuring prompts, evaluation loops, reusable development workflows, automated checks, and feedback mechanisms to improve reliability, repeatability, and engineering quality.
• Strong hands-on engineering mindset, with a focus on code quality, sound design decisions, maintainability, and effective collaboration in team-based environments.
• Strong familiarity with the software development lifecycle, Git-based workflows, CI/CD,
• infrastructure-as-code concepts, automated testing, DevOps practices, and production support.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical scopes, iterative delivery plans, and measurable success criteria.
• Comfortable working with sensitive and confidential data, and partnering with governance, risk, and security stakeholders to embed controls from the start.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional technology teams.
• Preferred: background in the financial industry, with an understanding of financial markets, data sensitivity, regulatory expectations, and enterprise risk controls.