Lead Engineer
StoneX Group Inc.2 years ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the Azure data platform, including Databricks Lakehouse, Microsoft Fabric, and the Power BI and SSAS/AAS semantic layer.
- Identify, scope, and deliver data-platform initiatives with product, business, and technical stakeholders.
- Lead delivery for four engineers by breaking down work, removing blockers, mentoring, and conducting design and code reviews.
- Set standards for data modeling, PySpark and SQL quality, semantic-model design, testing, CI/CD, and production readiness.
- Own platform infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Define and uphold platform SLAs, lead incident response, and improve cost, performance, and reliability.
- Partner with Architecture, Security, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and Networks to meet enterprise and regulatory standards.
- Architect AI platforms at scale using Claude, GitHub, Azure AI Foundry, and Databricks Mosaic AI.
Requirements
- 8+ years of data engineering or data-platform experience, including 2–3 years as a technical lead owning architecture and guiding engineers.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Azure Databricks, including Delta Lake, PySpark, Unity Catalog, and cluster and performance tuning at scale.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric and ADLS Gen2.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, with proficiency in at least one additional language such as Java or C#.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Git, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
- Competence across Azure cloud networking, identity management, storage, and compute.
- Demonstrated architecture and design authority on non-trivial platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience in financial services or another regulated industry.
- Production experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake and Direct Lake.
- Data governance experience with Unity Catalog, lineage, data contracts, and cost governance or FinOps on Databricks.
- Experience designing and operating BI solutions on Power BI and SSAS, including dataset design, DAX, RLS, capacity, and refresh.
- Familiarity with Kimball modeling patterns.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Bangalore with four days in the office.
- Travel as required.
About StoneX Group Inc.
StoneX Group Inc. is a public financial services firm that connects institutional, commercial, and retail clients to global markets through brokerage, execution, clearing, risk management, and cross-border payments. It offers trading and hedging across commodities, equities, fixed income, futures/options, and FX, and operates retail platforms via GAIN Capital’s FOREX.com and City Index (acquired 2020). Founded in 1924 and headquartered in New York, it lists on Nasdaq under SNEX.