Data Engineer

Meet the Team

Join the Cisco IT Data team, where we are passionate about leveraging technology and AI to deliver impactful business outcomes. Our highly collaborative and innovative team delivers robust end\-to\-end platforms and services, enabling a variety of competitive Sales insights \& solutions including financial management reporting for Cisco. We cultivate a creative, fun, and supportive culture where you are encouraged to explore new ideas and drive significant impact.

Your Impact

As a Data Engineering technical leader, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable data processing platforms supporting Corporate Functional Data IT. You will collaborate closely with data analysts, engineers, and key partners to ensure unified data availability, quality, and accuracy across the organization. You will lead the development and optimization of multiple data pipelines, integrate advanced technology for faster insights, and serve as a go\-to expert for data analytics and modeling. Your work will directly influence business\-critical decision\-making and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Deep understanding and maintenance of data pipelines:  Architect and stabilize transactional data pipelines for the Cisco IT Data team using a unified ingestion framework.
• Data consumption pipelines:  Build and optimize pipelines for analytical reporting, self\-service reporting, and data virtualization models tailored to consumer needs.
• Technical proof\-of\-concept:  Lead POCs with emerging technologies to enhance analytics platforms, ensuring efficiency and alignment with business metrics and canonical data models.
• AI\-driven insights:  Define and implement AI/ML use cases (e.g., NLP to SQL conversational agents) to deliver actionable insights and accelerate business growth.
• Platform enablement:  Empower and support multiple Corporate Functional portals (Customer Portal, Partner Portal, etc.) through scalable data analytics platforms.
• Data quality\& governance:  Ensure high data quality, consistency, and adherence to governance and security best practices.
• Collaboration:  Work cross\-functionally with analytics, engineering, and business teams to deliver end\-to\-end solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Technology, or a related field.
• 5\-8 years of demonstrated ability in Data Warehousing (DWH) with solid understanding of ETL processes and tools.
• Expertise in cloud data platforms and database technologies: Snowflake etc.
• Solid experience with ETL tools: Informatica, DBT.
• Proficiency with any data quality\& observability tools: Snowflake DMF
• Experience with data streaming technologies: Kafka
• Hands\-on scripting and programming skills: Unix shell Script, Python, SQL
• Experience in Enterprise AI integrations: MCP Server, RAG
• Experience in data modeling, designing database structures, and enabling varied data consumption models (virtualization, reporting, etc.).
• Shown ability to build, optimize, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable data pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real\-time data and stream processing systems.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools and techniques.
• Solid knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance practices.
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks and technologies in the data domain (LLMs, predictive/prescriptive analytics, etc.).
• Experience working in agile teams; SAFe Agilist certification is a plus.
• Great teammate, Good communication skills and ability to lead technical initiatives.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.