Posted 17 June, 2026
Associate Director Data Engineer
VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
Full Time
Reference: 26-33981-2522-2
Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited
About The Client:
An American multinational information technology infrastructure services provider that designs, builds, manages and develops large-scale information systems. It is currently the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider and the fifth-largest consulting provider.
About The Job:
Mandatory Skills
How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.
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Experience Level Bonus Referral:
About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About The Client:
An American multinational information technology infrastructure services provider that designs, builds, manages and develops large-scale information systems. It is currently the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider and the fifth-largest consulting provider.
About The Job:
- The Associate Director – Core Data Engineering will serve as the senior-most technical authority for enterprise data engineering services.
- The role is responsible for leading technical strategy, operational excellence, pipeline reliability, data quality, platform governance, and secure delivery of data services across ingestion, transformation, validation, publishing and recovery processes.
- The role will provide leadership across Snowflake, dbt, NiFi/OpenFlow, Dataiku, Power BI, SQL, Python, CI/CD for data engineering code, data quality controls, semantic models, BI refresh operations, RBAC, masking, encryption, audit trails, backup validation and DR readiness.
- Lead enterprise data engineering services across ingestion, transformation, validation, delivery, recovery, and pipeline reliability.
- Manage data pipelines across file, API, streaming, and batch ingestion patterns.
- Provide technical leadership for pipeline design reviews, operational readiness, troubleshooting, and recovery planning.
- Ensure data engineering operations are secure, auditable, SLA-driven, and governance-aligned.
- Operate, monitor, and optimize ingestion, transformation, and delivery pipelines across enterprise data platforms.
- Validate schema, metadata, format, structural integrity, lineage, and data quality before ingestion and downstream release.
- Manage retries, late-arriving data, partial loads, backfills, reruns, and out-of-order data handling.
- Define and govern data quality checks including nulls, referential integrity, completeness, consistency, timeliness, duplicates, gaps, and reconciliation.
- Enforce automated validation controls and ensure invalid datasets are blocked pending approval.
- Address schema drift, malformed data, and structural anomalies through approved operational handling.
- Lead implementation and governance of transformation frameworks using dbt and NiFi/OpenFlow.
- Provide technical oversight on logical/physical data models, transformation documentation, moClienting standards, and pipeline design.
- Support performance tuning and optimization of SQL and Python-based data workloads.
- Lead operational governance of Snowflake, including environment setup, security controls, data domain onboarding, data models, and runbooks.
- Support Dataiku-based analytics workflows, dataset validation, schema checks, model artefact validation, and enterprise platform integration.
- Provide technical leadership for MicroStrategy and Power BI semantic models, dashboards, BI refresh cycles, publishing jobs, and platform stability.
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines, version control, traceability, release sequencing, testing, deployment, rollback, and change governance.
- Monitor throughput, connector health, validation rules, execution latency, failures, SLAs, dependencies, alerts, and platform availability.
- Provide technical RCA, operational reporting, audit evidence, log integrity, retention, backup validation, DR testing, and recovery support.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, lineage, runbooks, SOPs, dependency matrices, job definitions, KT material, and reusable knowledge artefacts.
Mandatory Skills
- SQL,
- Oracle
- Python
- Spark/PySpark
- BODS
- ODI
- Snowflake
- dbt
- NiFi / OpenFlow
- Dataiku
- HOPEX
- MicroStrategy and Power BI
- Experience in core banking transformation, digital banking, data migration, reporting modernization, or regulatory change programs.
- Experience supporting production data pipelines, batch operations, regulatory submissions, and BI reporting solutions.
- Prior experience in banking, lending, risk, tax, securities, customer data, or regulatory reporting platforms.
- Exposure to European banking regulatory environments and compliance frameworks.
- Act as the final technical escalation point for complex data engineering, pipeline, platform, data quality and BI operational issues.
- Provide technical direction to data engineers, platform engineers, BI engineers, analysts and technical SMEs.
- Drive standardisation, automation, reliability and operational maturity across data engineering services.
- Ensure solutions are secure, compliant, auditable, scalable, resilient and operationally supportable.
- Collaborate with customer stakeholders, platform owners, security, compliance, business teams and third-party vendors.
- 18+ years of IT experience with strong depth in enterprise data engineering, data platforms, data warehousing, BI operations and managed services.
- Proven experience leading Architects, senior data engineers, platform engineers, data analysts, BI engineers and technical SMEs.
- Strong experience operating and governing enterprise-grade data pipelines, data quality controls, transformation frameworks and analytical platforms.
- Experience in regulated environments with focus on auditability, access controls, data governance, operational resilience and compliance.
- Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions, guide engineering teams and drive operational excellence across complex data ecosystems.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Finance, Banking, Business, or a related field.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.
Unlock Rewards: Refer Candidates and Earn.
If you're not available or interested in this opportunity, please pass this along to anyone in your network who might be a good fit and interested in our open positions. VARITE offers a Candidate Referral program, where you'll receive a one-time referral bonus based on the following scale if the referred candidate completes a three-month assignment with VARITE.
Experience Level Bonus Referral:
| 0-2 years | INR 5,000 |
| 2-6 years | INR 7,500 |
| 6+ years | INR 10,000 |
About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
