Lead Software Engineer (Data Engineering)
FactSet (company site, opens in a new tab)8+ yrsHyderabadOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 30–45 LPA
Posted 12h ago
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About This Role
- Lead technical direction and architecture for two key strategic data platforms (UCF and FDF) focused on scalability, stability, and cost-effective delivery.
- Build and lead a high-performing data engineering team in India, including setting technical standards, hiring, and defining team culture.
- Collaborate with global engineering leaders on platform strategy, cloud data delivery, API design, and modernizing data pipelines; also contribute hands-on as a player-coach.
Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience including senior individual contributor or technical lead roles.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent education).
- Proficiency in Python and/or C#, with experience in ETL/ELT systems and data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
- Experience designing and operating large-scale production data platforms, cloud-native data delivery (Snowflake, AWS S3), distributed systems, and cost/performance optimization at infrastructure layer.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in architecting extensible, multi-tenant data platforms with plugin or configuration-driven designs, and modernizing legacy systems onto cloud stacks.
- Skilled in cross-geography collaboration with strong communication that bridges senior architects and junior engineers.
- Demonstrated success mentoring engineers, influencing without authority, and managing senior leadership relationships in financial or market data domains.