Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer Notice period- Should be immediate only Experience -7 to 25 years Location- Hyderabad only Work mode- All 5 days' work from office CORE RESPONSIBILITIES • Hands-on delivery oversight: review pipelines, SQL, ETL/ELT logic, Spark jobs, reporting outputs and technical deliverables. • Mentor junior talent: coach data engineers, data analysts and data quality analysts through daily guidance, reviews and troubleshooting. • Data quality and controls: define validation, reconciliation, anomaly checks, lineage awareness and issue triage for finance/reporting data. • Engineering governance: enforce coding standards, documentation, reusable patterns, production-readiness and maintainable data solutions. • Stakeholder communication: clearly communicate risks, blockers, dependencies and corrective actions to delivery and programme stakeholders. • SQL: advanced joins, window functions, query tuning, data validation and troubleshooting. • Python: scripting, data processing, API invocation, automation and pipeline support. • ETL/ELT: ingestion, transformation, scheduling, monitoring, error handling and operational support. • Apache Spark: Spark SQL, DataFrames/Datasets, batch pipelines, structured-streaming concepts, partitioning and performance tuning basics. • Scala / PySpark: ability to understand or develop Spark transformations using Scala or PySpark; Scala hands-on preferred where Spark workloads are Scala-based. • Data modelling and governance: warehousing basics, quality checks, reconciliation, auditability and traceable reporting outputs.