Senior AI Data Engineer

• *Vacancy Name**

Senior AI Data Engineer

• *Vacancy No**

VN1001

• *Job Title**

Senior AI Data Engineer

• *Work Location City**

Bangalore

• *About Solifi**

Solifi deliver a solid financial technology foundation for equipment, working capital, wholesale, and automotive finance firms. At Solifi, we believe that commerce is only as strong as the system it runs on. Our mission is to reshape finance technology by bringing together proven solutions into a singular powerful technology platform designed to help protect and scale financial organizations. We guard our customers by being precise and reliable, we guide their success by combining powerful technology with proven expertise, and we help them grow by unleashing their potential.

• *About the Team**

You’ll be part of Solifi’s AI Product Team, a lean, senior, cross\-functional group responsible for building AI\-driven capabilities end\-to\-end from discovery to deployment to operations.

• *About the Position**

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and infrastructure that power Solifi’s AI products. This is a builder role, not a maintenance one and you’ll architect data systems that enable rapid model experimentation, scalable inference, and reliable monitoring.

You’ll work closely with the AI Product Lead, Data Scientist, and AI Engineer to ensure Solifi’s AI products are built on clean, timely, and compliant data.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical data expertise with a product mindset, able to move fast, build for reuse, and enable intelligent systems end\-to\-end.

• *Role and Responsibilities**

Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Data Architecture: Design and implement scalable data pipelines (batch \+ streaming) to ingest, transform, and serve data for AI use cases.

• Feature Engineering: Build and maintain reusable feature stores ensuring consistency between training and inference.

• Data Quality \& Governance: Implement validation, lineage, and observability frameworks to ensure accuracy, reliability, and compliance.

• Collaboration: Work with Data Scientists to prepare model training data and with AI Engineers to deliver real\-time data flows for inference.

• Infrastructure: Manage data storage, orchestration, and compute for ML pipelines (Spark, Airflow, etc).

• Performance \& Cost Optimization: Continuously tune data workflows for efficiency and scalability on cloud infrastructure.

• Security \& Compliance: Enforce privacy, encryption, access control, and retention policies for all AI data assets.

• Automation: Contribute to CI/CD for data pipelines and participate in shared MLOps activities (e.g., automated retraining triggers).

• Documentation: Maintain clear metadata, schema definitions, and data contracts to enable collaboration and traceability.

Experience: 6–8 years total, with at least 4 years in modern data engineering for AI/ML or SaaS environments

• *About You**

• *Must\-Have Skills:**

• *Core Data Engineering:**

Expert in SQL and Python for data processing, transformation, and validation.

Strong hands\-on experience with data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, or similar).

Proven experience with ETL/ELT frameworks (DBT, Beam, Kafka).

Deep understanding of data modelling, partitioning, and schema evolution for large\-scale systems.

Experience building real\-time streaming pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis).

Prior startup or AI platform experience, comfortable working with evolving requirements.

Working experience with any of the Graph Databases like:\- Neo4j, Neptune etc.

• *Cloud \& Infrastructure:**

Proficiency in AWS data platforms \& infra.

Solid understanding of data lake / lakehouse architectures.

Knowledge of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), Docker/Kubernetes, and version control workflows.

Experience setting up data observability tools.

Exposure to financial or transactional data systems.

Experience in event\-driven architecture or CDC frameworks.

• *AI/ML Enablement:**

Understanding of ML data needs \- feature engineering, training/inference parity, model input/output formats.

Experience delivering data to AI model pipelines (batch \+ online inference).

• *Nice to Have:**

Experience working with vector databases or embedding pipelines (FAISS, Pinecone, Milvus).

Familiarity with LLM data preparation workflows (chunking, retrieval indexing, evaluation data).

Awareness of MLOps principles \- model retraining triggers, drift detection inputs, and experiment tracking data.

• *Success in 6–12 Months**

Deliver robust data pipelines supporting at least 2 production AI features.

Establish foundational feature store and data validation frameworks.

Ensure data quality, latency, and compliance SLAs for AI workflows.

Enable reproducible, automated data workflows for training and inference.

• *Team Context**

You’ll be part of Solifi’s AI Product Team, a lean, senior, cross\-functional group responsible for building AI\-driven capabilities end\-to\-end from discovery to deployment to operations.

• *Why This Role Matters**

Data is the foundation of every intelligent system. As Senior Data Engineer, you’ll architect that foundation, ensuring Solifi’s AI products are powered by accurate, reliable, and production\-grade data pipelines that scale with our ambitions.

Your work directly enables faster experimentation, better model performance, and more trustworthy AI in Solifi’s platform.

• *Preferred Experience Level**

6 years

• *Preferred Education Level**

Bachelor's Degree

• *Employment Basis**

Full Time

• *Benefits**

Group Medical Insurance, Group Personal Accident, Employee Anniversary gift, Loyalty Bonus, Employee Referral Bonus, Rewards and Recognition program, Wellness Allowance, Privilege Leave (PL): 15 days per year, Casual Leave (CL) 12 days per year, Maternity/paternity/Bereavement leave

• *Applications Close Date**

08 Dec 2026