Lead Data Engineer
NXP Semiconductors3 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain complex production-grade data pipelines on Databricks.
- Develop scalable ETL/ELT processes and reusable frameworks for ingestion, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Apply and improve pipeline architecture, coding standards, data quality practices, and ETL/ELT best practices.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pair programming.
- Deploy changes through CI/CD and the Change Request lifecycle, including validation, release management, and ticket closure.
- Support monitoring, alerting, incident response, problem management, root-cause analysis, and permanent remediation for production data workloads.
- Partner with Reporting, Visualization, Platform, and Business teams to expose curated datasets for downstream analytics.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, progress, and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Document workflows, standards, and runbooks for reproducibility and knowledge continuity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent relevant experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in data engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with Databricks, Python/PySpark, and SQL for large-scale data processing.
- Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale production data pipelines using ETL/ELT.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based branching strategies, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and core data services.
- Experience supporting production data pipelines, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Strong communication skills across engineering and business audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with orchestration frameworks, streaming technologies, Infrastructure-as-Code, modern deployment tooling, and observability tooling for data platforms.
- Experience in semiconductor manufacturing or large-scale industrial data processing is preferred.
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification is a plus.
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors designs and supplies microcontrollers, application processors (i.MX), analog/RF, secure connectivity, and automotive chips for OEMs in automotive, industrial/IoT, mobile, and communications infrastructure markets. A public company (NASDAQ: NXPI) founded in 2006 and headquartered in Eindhoven, it sells silicon, software, and reference designs, and supports customers with BSPs and development tools. Notable lines include i.MX processors, S32 automotive platforms, NFC and secure elements, radar, and power management devices.