- *Job Title: Senior Consultant – Data Engineer**
- *Type:** Contractual Role (6 Months)
- *Location:** Gurgaon (Work from Office)
- *Experience:** 7\+ Years
We are seeking a highly skilled **Senior Consultant – Data Engineer** to join our engineering team and contribute to building large\-scale, real\-time data systems.
This role is suited for engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems, designing scalable data platforms, and working in fast\-paced, product\-driven environments. The ideal candidate will be deeply hands\-on, capable of driving technical decisions independently, and comfortable working across data, backend, and infrastructure layers.
This is **not a traditional ETL or reporting role**—we are looking for strong system engineers with deep ownership, debugging expertise, and systems\-level thinking.
- Design and develop scalable, high\-performance data platforms and pipelines
- Build and manage distributed systems for batch and real\-time data processing
- Own end\-to\-end delivery including architecture, development, deployment, and optimization
- Debug, optimize, and extend open\-source data systems
- Solve infrastructure and system\-level engineering challenges beyond tool usage
- Collaborate with cross\-functional teams and drive data engineering best practices
- *Required Skills \& Experience**
- 7\+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform engineering roles
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, data storage, and compute architecture
- Experience in designing systems from first principles (not just tool\-based implementation)
- Hands\-on experience with open\-source or self\-managed data systems
- Strong programming skills in **Python or Go (Golang)**
- Experience in system design, performance tuning, and large\-scale debugging
- Backend engineering experience (APIs, microservices, system design)
- Experience in infrastructure management and deployments
- Exposure to high\-scale or real\-time data systems
- **Query \& OLAP:** Trino, ClickHouse, Apache Pinot
- **Batch \& Stream Processing:** Apache Spark (OSS), Apache Flink (OSS)
- **Table Format:** Apache Iceberg
- **Cataloging:** AWS Glue
- **Cloud:** AWS
- **Languages:** Go, Python
Interested candidates can share their updated resume to
Pay: ₹2,000,000\.00 \- ₹3,000,000\.00 per year
Work Location: In person