Azure Senior Data Lead
India
Job Description
Azure Senior Data Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka

Job Summary

A Senior Data Engineer (ETL) designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data pipelines to transform raw data into analytics-ready datasets. They own the architecture of the extraction, transformation, and loading processes, ensuring data quality, reliability, and optimal performance across enterprise data lakes and warehouses.

Key Responsibilities

  • Pipeline Development: Design and build complex, high-throughput ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest structured and unstructured data from diverse sources.
  • Data Architecture: Structure scalable data models, data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), and data lakes to support advanced analytics and reporting.
  • Performance Tuning: Optimize SQL queries, data indexing, partitioning, and cluster configurations to reduce compute costs and pipeline latency.
  • Data Quality & Governance: Implement automated testing, data validation frameworks, and data lineage tracking to guarantee data integrity and compliance.
  • CI/CD & Automation: Automate deployment workflows using CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and orchestrate pipelines using scheduling tools (e.g., Airflow, Prefect).

Skill Requirements

  • Experience: 7+ years of dedicated data engineering experience, with a proven track record of architecting production-grade ETL pipelines.
  • Programming Languages: Advanced proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java, alongside expert-level SQL optimization skills.
  • Big Data Frameworks: Hands-on experience with distributed computing tools such as Apache Spark, PySpark, Databricks, or Hadoop.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Deep familiarity with cloud data ecosystems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Orchestration Tools: Strong experience managing complex workflows with Apache Airflow, Dagster, or similar orchestration engines

Other Requirements

1.Relevant certifications in Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, SQL, Oracle, or Python would be a plus.
Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.