1 day ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and technical design for data platforms, pipelines, and warehouse solutions.
- Own complex initiatives from design through production support.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable Snowflake and dbt data pipelines.
- Define data models, performance standards, observability, and reliability practices.
- Lead technical design reviews and establish engineering standards.
- Champion code quality through reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
- Mentor engineers through pair programming, coaching, and technical guidance.
- Partner with product owners, analysts, and stakeholders on technical roadmaps.
- Reduce technical debt and improve platform performance.
- Lead incident analysis, root-cause investigations, and reliability improvements.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted engineering and specification-driven development.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience designing and operating enterprise data warehouse solutions.
- Expert knowledge of Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and dimensional data modeling.
- Strong experience with AWS-based data platforms.
- Experience building production-grade CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Jenkins or equivalent tools.
- Strong Python development skills for data engineering.
- Experience leading technical delivery and mentoring engineers.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and ability to influence technical decisions.
- Experience applying AI-assisted engineering or LLM-enabled developer tooling.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services and Apache Airflow is desirable.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, particularly Terraform, is desirable.
- Programming experience in Python and/or Java is desirable.
- Ability to solve problems involving ambiguous requirements and large, complex datasets.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance covering the employee, immediate family, and parents.
- Enhanced health insurance options, group life insurance, and group accident insurance.
- Flexible working arrangement.
- Employee Assistance Program and medical screening.
- Maternity, paternity, and adoption support.
- Long-service awards and a new baby gift.
- Subsidized meals in Chennai.
- Multiple paid leave options, including casual, sick, privilege, compassionate, special sick leave, and gazetted public holidays.
- Free home-office-home transport in Chennai.
About Elsevier
Elsevier builds scientific and medical information products and analytics platforms for researchers, clinicians, and educators. Its portfolio includes journals and databases such as The Lancet, Cell, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ClinicalKey, sold primarily via institutional subscriptions, licensing, and open-access publishing fees. Founded in 1880 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier operates as a business of RELX, serving universities, hospitals, corporations, and government research agencies worldwide.