Data Engineer - Lead
First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026.
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At Iris Software, our vision is to be our client's most trusted technology partner, and the first choice for the industry's top professionals to realize their full potential.With over 4,300 associates across India, U.S.A, and Canada, we help our enterprise clients thrive with technology-enabled transformation across financial services, healthcare, transportation & logistics, and professional services.Our work covers complex, mission-critical applications with the latest technologies, such as high-value complex Application & Product Engineering, Data & Analytics, Cloud, DevOps, Data & MLOps, Quality Engineering, and Business Automation.
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Job Description
Mandatory Skills: PySpark, Delta Lake on Databricks, Databricks Workflows, Apache Kafka
Additional Skills: Databricks
Key Responsibilities
Define and drive enterprise data engineering strategy aligned with organizational objectives and data modernization initiatives.
Establish data engineering standards, governance frameworks, and best practices across teams.Lead the design of enterprise-scale data processing architectures using PySpark and modern data platform technologies.
Define enterprise standards for Snowflake and Delta Lake-based data platforms supporting analytical and operational workloads.
Drive real-time and event-driven data architecture initiatives using Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis.Establish governance standards for data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and processing frameworks.
Define workflow orchestration, scheduling, and operational governance standards using Apache Airflow or Databricks Workflows.Establish data quality, validation, monitoring, and operational excellence frameworks across data engineering ecosystems.
Define enterprise standards for data products, data quality ownership, metadata management, discoverability, and trusted business data consumption across the organization.
Establish architecture standards for modern Lakehouse platforms, data observability, platform engineering, and scalable cloud-native data ecosystems supporting enterprise analytics and AI initiatives.
Define AI-ready data foundation strategies supporting structured and unstructured data processing, vector-enabled architectures, retrieval patterns, and future GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives.
Partner with business stakeholders to translate business objectives into scalable data platform capabilities, data products, and enterprise data architecture decisions.
Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across data engineering teams to improve developer productivity, code quality, documentation, testing, and delivery effectiveness while maintaining governance standards.
Lead architecture reviews and ensure data solutions meet scalability, reliability, maintainability, and performance objectives.
Guide teams on distributed data processing, streaming architectures, modern data platforms, and engineering best practices.Identify platform risks, scalability bottlenecks, operational gaps, and architectural challenges while defining mitigation strategies.
Collaborate with various teams and leadership stakeholders to align data initiatives with organizational objectives.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on platform maturity, engineering excellence, scalability, reliability, and delivery effectiveness.
Behavioral Competencies
Demonstrates leadership and accountability in driving data engineering excellence across programs and initiatives.
Collaborate effectively with various teams and business stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery.
Promotes a culture of innovation, quality, continuous improvement, and data engineering excellence.
Perks and Benefits for Irisians
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