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Lead Data/AI Engineering

Hyderabad, India

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Lead Data Engineer Job Description

About AT&T Chief Data Office

The Chief Data Office (CDO) at AT&T is responsible for leveraging data as a strategic asset to drive business value. The team focuses on data governance, data engineering, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics to enhance customer experience, optimize operations, and enable innovation.

Candidates will:

  • Work on cutting-edge Cloud Technologies, AI/ML, and data-driven solutions, be a part of a dynamic and innovative team driving digital transformation.
  • Lead high-impact Agile initiatives with top talent in the industry.
  • Get opportunity to grow and implement Agile at an enterprise level.
  • Offered competitive compensation, flexible work culture, and learning opportunities.

Shift timing (if any): 12.30 to 9.30 IST(Bangalore)/1:00-10:00 pm (Hyderabad)

Work mode: Hybrid (3 days mandatory in office)

Location / Additional Location (if any): Bangalore, Hyderabad

Job Title / Advertise Job Title: Lead Data Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Create product roadmap and project plan. 
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using Azure Services to process, transform, and load large datasets into Cloud platforms. 
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders, to gather data requirements and deliver efficient data solutions. 
  • Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines for data ingestion, processing, and transformation in Azure. 
  • Work together with data scientists/architects and analysts to understand the needs for data and create effective data workflows. 
  • Exposure to Snowflake Warehouse. 
  • Big Data Engineer with solid background with the larger Hadoop ecosystem and real-time analytics tools including PySpark/Scala-Spark/Hive/Hadoop CLI/MapReduce/Storm/Kafka/Lambda Architecture   
  • Implementing data validation and cleansing techniques. 
  • Improve the scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of data pipelines. 
  • Experience in designing and hands-on development in cloud-based analytics solutions. 
  • Expert level understanding on Azure Data Factory Azure Data Lake, Snowflake, Pyspark is required. 
  • Good to have exp in full Stack Development background with Java and JavaScript/CSS/HTML.
  • Knowledge of ReactJs/Angular is a plus.
  • Designing and building of data pipelines using API ingestion and Streaming ingestion methods.
  • Unix/Linux expertise; comfortable with Linux operating system and Shell Scripting.
  • Knowledge of Dev-Ops processes (including CI/CD) and Infrastructure as code is desirable.
  • PL/SQL, RDBMS background with Oracle/MySQL
  • Comfortable with microServices, CI/CD, Dockers, and Kubernetes       
  • Strong experience in common Data Vault data warehouse modelling principles.
  • Creating/modifying Dockers and deploying them via Kubernetes.

Additional Skills Required:

The ideal candidate should have at least 14+ years of experience in IT along in addition to the following:

  • Having 10+ years of extensive development experience using snowflake or similar data warehouse technology
  • Having working experience with dbt and other technologies of the modern datastack, such as Snowflake, Azure, Databricks and Python,  
  • Experience in agile processes, such as SCRUM
  • Extensive experience in writing advanced SQL statements and performance tuning.
  • Experience in Data Ingestion techniques using custom or SAAS tool
  • Experience in data modelling and can optimize existing/new data models
  • Experience in data mining, data warehouse solutions, and ETL, and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets

Technical Qualifications:

Preferred:

  •  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Experience in high-tech, software, or telecom industries is a plus.
  • Strong analytical skills to translate insights into impactful product initiatives.

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Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.

Job ID R-63188 Date posted 04/09/2025
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  • Paid Time Off
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Insurance Options
  • Discounts
  • Training & Development

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