Technical Lead

Ascendion; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion in Pune seeks a Technical Lead who writes production code daily and guides a team of engineers. You will split 60% hands-on engineering and 40% technical leadership, owning architecture, standards, and roadmaps, and representing the team to Roche stakeholders.

Requires 8+ years in software/data engineering, 2+ years in a lead/architect role, expert Python and SQL, AWS, Snowflake, Terraform, and CI/CD. Strong English communication and ability to lead a distributed team are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/data engineering, incl. 2+ years in a tech lead, staff, or architect role managing others.
• Expert Python for production systems including OOP, type hints, packaging and dependencies.
• Strong SQL and data domain mastery; fluent English communication for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and engineering standards; break the roadmap into work for three developers.
• Hands-on engineering ~60% of time; lead, design ports & adapters, review PRs.
• Represent the team technically to Roche stakeholders; coordinate across disciplines.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Snowflake

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Airflow

Dagster

Hexagonal architecture

Data governance

Leadership

Job description

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a leader in AI-Native platform driven software engineering company that underwrites outcomes, helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with Global 2000 clients across North America, UK, Europe, and APAC to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI™ (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth. Learn more at ascendion.com

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

• Build the coolest tech for world's leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers! Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About The Role

A hands-on player-coach. You write production code daily — designing ports, building adapters, reviewing every PR — and you own the architecture, set engineering standards, break the roadmap into work for three developers, and represent the team technically to Roche stakeholders. This is not a purely managerial or purely architectural seat: roughly 60% hands-on engineering, 40% technical leadership.

Job Title: Technical Lead

Key Responsibilities

• 8+ years in software / data engineering, including 2+ years in a technical lead, staff, or architect capacity with direct responsibility for other engineers' output.
• Expert Python for production systems: OOP and abstract base classes, type hints, packaging, dependency management; comfortable authoring a library others build on.
• Proven software architecture experience with clean / hexagonal (ports & adapters) architecture, dependency injection, and interface-driven design — demonstrable on real systems, not just theory.
• Snowflake — hands-on production experience (databases/schemas, roles/warehouses, cloning, access model).
• AWS — hands-on production experience building and operating services on AWS.
• CI/CD with GitLab (or equivalent) — designing pipelines that build, test, and deploy.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform — authored and maintained real infrastructure.
• Secure secret management — hands-on experience keeping credentials/secrets out of code, logs, and state and sourcing them from a secrets backend (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager / Parameter Store).
• Concept-level mastery (can explain how they work and design for them, independent of any specific vendor tool) of: data governance, data warehousing, data transformation, and data ingestion/ETL.
• Strong SQL (to design and validate backend/migration adapters — not for production data work).
• Professional working English and the communication skills to lead a distributed team and brief non-engineering stakeholders.
• Orchestrators beyond CI: Airflow / Dagster.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience

8+ years in software/data engineering, including 2+ years in a tech lead, staff, or architect role managing others.

Tech Stack

Expert Python, strong SQL, AWS, Snowflake, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Airflow/Dagster, and secure secret management.

Architecture & Skills

Proven hexagonal/clean architecture experience, strong data domain mastery, and fluent English communication for leadership.

Location: Pune