Lead Engineer: Data and AI

Lead Engineer: Data and AI
Bengaluru (Electronic City) | Full-time | 6-8 years

Altimetrik is hiring a Lead Engineer, Data and AI, to lead delivery of data pipelines and platform features, working closely with Staff Engineers and managing Senior Engineers. (2 openings)

What you’ll do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of data pipeline features across Redshift, Kafka/RedPanda and S3
• Own technical delivery for platform components, including ingestion, transformation and orchestration
• Collaborate with Staff Engineers on architecture and technical standards
• Build and maintain DBT transformation models and pipeline observability
• Contribute to AWS Bedrock and Claude-based AI workflow integrations
• Implement PCI DSS-compliant data handling within pipelines
• Line manage and coach Senior Engineers, and take part in code reviews, design reviews and technical documentation

What we’re looking for

• 6-8 years in data engineering or AI platform engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS: EKS/ECS, S3, Lambda and EC2
• Proficiency with Redshift and DBT (Bronze-Silver-Gold transformation layer experience preferred)
• Experience with SQL Server CDC-based ingestion pipelines
• Experience with streaming platforms: Kafka, Confluent or RedPanda
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines: Bitbucket, Argo and Octopus
• Growing exposure to GenAI tooling: AWS Bedrock and Claude APIs
• PCI DSS awareness and data privacy best practices
• Some people management or tech lead experience

Work Location: In person