Principal Data Engineer
Novo Nordisk (company site, opens in a new tab)10+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–60 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Lead technical strategy and technical decisions for enterprise-scale data architectures and pipelines across commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, and corporate data.
- Provide hands-on engineering leadership including code and architecture reviews, mentoring data engineers, and setting engineering standards and SOPs linked to business outcomes.
- Implement and govern data governance frameworks covering data security, privacy, regulatory compliance, master data, quality, metadata, lineage, and observability, while managing vendor delivery and optimizing cost/performance.
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering, architecture, and product development involving large-scale complex data initiatives.
- Strong hands-on expertise with AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Databricks, Python, SQL, GitHub Enterprise or Azure DevOps, Kafka or Event Hubs, and DataOps/DevOps tools including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Work Experience Required: 10+ years in relevant data engineering roles.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced leader combining deep hands-on data engineering skills with the ability to shape strategic data foundational roadmaps with business leaders.
- Comfortable working in complex, cross-functional, matrix environments involving multiple stakeholders including vendors and domain teams.
- Strong operational focus on data quality, governance, security, and regulatory compliance in a regulated or large enterprise context.