Data Engineer- GCP/Databricks

AuxoAI is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and optimisation of modern data pipelines and cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for someone with deep experience building scalable batch and streaming data workflows across cloud and lakehouse environments, strong hands-on engineering skills, and a drive to mentor junior engineers. You will work closely with AI engineers, solution architects, and cross-functional teams to build production-grade pipelines spanning ingestion, transformation, and curated data delivery — enabling high-quality data for AI and analytics use cases at scale. Location: Bangalore / Mumbai / Hyderabad / Gurgaon (Hybrid — 3 days in office) Responsibilities Design and build scalable batch and streaming data pipelines across bronze, silver, and gold medallion layers. Build historical and incremental ingestion using Auto Loader/Spark Structured Streaming/Kafka feeds, with GCS/Azure/AWS storage and Databricks Jobs orchestration. Develop and maintain Databricks-based pipelines using Spark and Delta Lake for lakehouse architecture, including migration of legacy or on-premises data sources. Design and maintain analytical data layers in BigQuery or Databricks SQL, applying best practices in partitioning, clustering, and performance tuning. Implement SQL/PySpark transformations for wide and semi-structured data, including wide-to-long processing and typed or hybrid models suited to consumer requirements. Collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to build pipelines that feed ML models, AI agents, and analytical systems. Implement data governance, quality controls, and security best practices including schema enforcement, lineage tracking, and access controls. Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and pipeline observability. Partner with solution architects to translate data requirements into technical designs. Mentor junior data engineers and contribute to documentation, code reviews, and agile ceremonies. Requirements 5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, building and operating production-grade pipelines. Hands-on experience with Databricks on GCP, including BigQuery, GCS, Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and structured streaming. Hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark, including Delta Lake and end-to-end lakehouse implementations. Strong programming skills in Python and/or Scala, with solid SQL for modelling and transformation. Experience with data modelling, ETL/ELT, pipeline orchestration, and data warehousing concepts, including experience working with large, evolving JSON/map/array payloads, wide-to-long transformations, event-time context joins and schema-change handling. Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and data quality monitoring frameworks. Solid understanding of data architecture, schema design, and performance tuning. Experience with Unity Catalog, source reconciliation, schema evolution, correction handling and replay/recovery testing. Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills. Bonus Skills GCP Professional Data Engineer certification. Experience with Vertex AI, Cloud Functions, Dataproc, or real-time streaming architectures. Experience with factory or industrial data sources — MES systems, IoT sensor streams, or operational telemetry. Familiarity with data governance and cataloguing tools such as Dataplex, Unity Catalog, Atlan, or Collibra. Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, API integration, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).