Senior Lead Engineer – DataHub

Quest Global; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Global in Bengaluru is looking for a skilled software developer with 12-15 years of experience. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in C++, cloud services, DICOM protocols, and distributed data-processing technologies. Responsibilities include acting as a technical coach, conducting code reviews, and integrating software components. Familiarity with AWS, Agile methodologies, and database design is essential. This role presents an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that fosters innovation.

Qualifications

• 12 - 15 years in software development/engineering with various competencies.
• Experience in building scalable, cloud native data warehouses.
• Strong knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the technical coach for a team, ensuring the application of best practices.
• Conducts code reviews and maintains code quality standards.
• Integrates software components ensuring seamless functionality.

Skills

C++

Cloud services

REST

DICOM protocols

Distributed data-processing technologies

Agile methodologies

Database design

Automation testing frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub

Education

BE, BTech or MTech in Computer Science/Engineering, Information technology

Tools

AWS

GitHub

Azure Dev Ops

Cucumber

Jenkins

Job description

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Acts as the technical coach for a team or domain, being recognized and approached by team members for expertise and guidance, ensures consistent application of best practices and high standards across projects.
• Sets quality goals and development practices with the team, driving continuous improvement and excellence in software development through rigorous standards and methodologies.
• Integrates software components and third-party libraries into existing systems, ensuring seamless functionality and interoperability with minimal disruption.
• Conducts and participates in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices to maintain code quality.
• Analyses and optimizes application performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks to enhance user experience and system efficiency, ensuring the software meets performance benchmarks.
• Stays current with emerging technologies and industry trends, incorporating new tools and methodologies to improve development processes and product quality.
• Develops software to log and store performance data, usage, errors, etc., enabling continuous monitoring of solutions and products for improved reliability and performance.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to define, design, and ship new features, ensuring alignment with project goals and user needs.
• Resolves a wide range of moderate complexity requests in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Design and develop scalable data ingestion & transformation pipelines
• Design and extend the data lake’s architecture—partitioning strategies, storage formats, metadata layers, and data models
• Implement automated testing, data validation checks, and CI/CD pipelines to support safe and frequent deployments.
• Diagnose and fix issues related to ingestion failures, schema drifts, latency bottlenecks, and data inconsistencies. Maintain operational dashboards, logs, and alerting systems.

Work Experience

• BE, BTech or MTech in Computer Science/Engineering, Information technology or equivalent
• 12 - 15 years in software development/engineering including requirements analysis, software development, installation, integration, evaluation, enhancement, maintenance, testing, and problem diagnosis/resolution.
• Proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate design, coding, testing, and documentation with high-quality outcomes.
• Thrives in an agile, entrepreneurial, start‑up–like environment with strong ownership, learning mindset and the drive to rapidly iterate, validate and deliver customer centric solutions.
• Strong proficiency in C++, HTTP, REST and Cloud services
• In‑depth knowledge of DICOM protocols, metadata, and imaging data handling
• Strong expertise in distributed data‑processing technologies (e.g., Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake).
• Hands‑on experience in database design, implementation, tuning and migration
• Experience in enterprise application development, design patterns, architectural patterns, OOAD and UML.
• The individual must be able to communicate directions and provide guidance to engineers in the team, as required.
• Experience building scalable, cloud native data warehouse and relative tools for viewing and uploading/downloading data
• Experience with GitHub or Azure Dev Ops
• Experience in working on Amazon web services (AWS) is an added advantage.
• Experience in automation test frameworks like Cucumber/Selenium, Junit or equivalent is added advantage.
• Experience working on CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins is added advantage.
• Strong knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Working experience in SAFe development methodologies
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems. Strong desire to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges
• Ability to identify key technical risks and develop mitigation and recovery plan
• Ability to innovate and foster innovation
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interface in a cross-disciplinary manner, including engineers, product managers, and clinical specialists
• Self‑motivated individual with good organizational and time management skills
• Familiarity with medical devices and/or working in a regulated environment a plus