Staff Data Engineer

Applied Systems; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Systems India Pvt Ltd is seeking an experienced Staff Data Engineer to join the Data team in India. You will shape the data platform on Google Cloud Platform, define architecture, and set engineering standards while solving complex data problems at scale.

This individual contributor role requires deep GCP, BigQuery, DBT, Python, and ETL expertise, with a passion for data quality, observability, and scalable pipelines across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data/ETL Engineering and architecture, with senior-level influence
• 3+ years hands-on with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery expertise
• Experience architecting and scaling cloud data platforms serving multiple teams
• Proficiency with SQL, DBT, Python and ETL tools (Talend, Fivetran, etc.)
• Experience with streaming/near real-time architectures, data quality and observability
• Strong data modeling, CI/CD for data, and data governance practices
• Excellent communication and ability to influence across teams
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust data pipelines on GCP.
• Define data life cycle, lineage, and governance patterns.
• Optimize ETL processes for performance and scalability.
• Own end-to-end data platform architecture across ingestion to consumption.
• Mentor engineers and promote design reviews and best practices.

Skills

Data pipelines

ETL engineering

GCP BigQuery

SQL

DBT

Python

Airflow/Composer

Data governance

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DataProc

Dataflow

BigQuery

Talend

Fivetran

Apache Airflow

Composer

Job description

Amazing Career Moments Happen Here

Transforming the insurance industry is ambitious, we know. That's why at Applied Systems India Pvt Ltd., an Applied Systems company, we're building a team that shows up every day ready to learn, willing to try new things, and driven to deliver innovative software and services that make us indispensable to our customers - all within a culture built on values that make us indispensable to each other too. With 40+ years of experience in the Insurtech game, we're not just redefining what's achievable, we're creating a place where amazing career moments are made possible.

Job Description

Amazing Career Moments Happen Here

Transforming the insurance industry is ambitious, we know. That's why at Applied Systems India Pvt Ltd., an Applied Systems company, we're building a team that shows up every day ready to learn, willing to try new things, and driven to deliver innovative software and services that make us indispensable to our customers - all within a culture built on values that make us indispensable to each other too. With 40+ years of experience in the Insurtech game, we're not just redefining what's achievable, we're creating a place where amazing career moments are made possible.

Position Overview

Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for an experienced Staff Data Engineer with proven experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to join our growing Data team in India. We are on an exciting journey to scale our Data and Analytics capabilities to enable better data-driven decision making across the business. In this role you will contribute towards setting the technical direction for our data platform on Google Cloud Platform - defining architecture, establishing engineering standards, optimizing data processes, and ensuring the seamless integration of data from various sources. This is an individual contributor role with organization-wide influence: you will solve our hardest data problems and raise the bar for how we solve all of them. If you are passionate about data and excited to work on cutting-edge technologies, we want to hear from you!

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, operationalize robust and scalable data pipelines with automated data quality checks to support business needs and demonstrate ownership of live data pipelines and establish the patterns other engineers use to build theirs.
• Proficiency understanding and implementing data life cycles, data lineage, custom metadata, and data governance.
• Proficiency implementing BigQuery SQL procedures, functions, and similar, with actionable logging
• Optimize ETL processes and data workflows to ensure abiding by performance constraints, for efficiency and scalability.
• Together with the Principal Engineer and Architect, own the architecture of our data platform end to end - ingestion through consumption - across GCP, BigQuery , dbt , Airflow, and Python.
• Expertise in JSON, XML, text parsing using Dataflow, Python, or batch jobs.
• Define and enforce engineering standards across data teams: code review norms, testing strategy, reusable frameworks, CI/CD for data.
• Design, develop and maintain robust, and scalable data models and schemas to support analytics and reporting requirements.
• Optimize data processing performance, ensure high availability, scalability of data systems and solutions.
• Implement monitoring and alerting mechanisms to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Ensure data quality and consistency through rigorous testing and validation processes in development and production tiers.
• Create, update, and maintain technical documentation of the data processes, pipelines, and models.
• Mentor and grow engineers across teams through design review, pair programming, and structured technical feedback.
• Partner directly with Engineering, Product, and business leadership to translate ambiguous business problems into technical requirements.
• Identify systemic problems no one has asked you to fix, and build the case for addressing them.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead the technical roadmap for the data platform, including a multi-quarter view of what we build next and what we retire.

What You Will Need To Succeed

• 10+ years of experience in Data / ETL Engineering, as well as Data / ETL Architecture and pipeline development, including 3+ years operating at senior or lead level with demonstrated technical influence beyond your immediate team.
• 3+ years hands-on with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including deep BigQuery expertise : partitioning and clustering strategy, slot and reservation management, cost optimization at scale, and query performance tuning.
• Proven track record architecting, building and scaling cloud data platform serving multiple consuming teams — with specifics on scale, latency, and cost.
• Experience with the primary managed data services within GCP, including DataProc , Dataflow, BigQuery etc.
• Deep expertise in SQL, DBT, Python (Apache Airflow, Composer) and hands-on experience with ETL tools like Talend, Fivetran or similar.
• Demonstrated experience with streaming and near real-time architectures, including delivery semantics, schema evolution, and late-arriving data.
• Strong dimensional modeling expertise , and the judgment to know when to depart from it.
• Experience establishing data quality, observability, and testing frameworks that other engineers adopt and maintain .
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD for data workloads.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority — driving technical decisions across teams that don't report to you.
• Track record of mentoring engineers to promotion.
• Excellent written communication, including design documents that create alignment among senior stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

When You Join Team Applied, You Can Expect:

A culture that values who you are

and recognizes that you aren't just an employee; you are a teammate, and you matter. We thrive on the benefits of our different experiences and celebrate the uniqueness our teammates bring to work with them every day.

We flex our time together

collaborating remotely and in-person to empower our teams to work in the ways that work best for them.

Learn more about the people behind our products at

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• LinkedIn Page Applied Systems India
• https://www1.appliedsystems.com/en-us/about-us/jobs/

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