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Mindera

Lead Data Engineer

Bengaluru , India
full-time

AI overview

Lead the design and implementation of modern data platforms while mentoring teams and driving technical decision-making in a collaborative, high-impact work culture.

Mindera is seeking a Lead Data Engineer with deep hands-on expertise and strong leadership capabilities to design, build, and scale modern data platforms. This role requires a technical leader who codes daily, mentors teams, and collaborates closely with US (Pacific Time) and UK stakeholders.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working in US PT overlap hours, can independently drive technical decisions, and has a strong background in Databricks, PySpark, and SQL on cloud platforms.

Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications

Mandatory Technical Skills

  • 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related roles
  • Strong, hands-on experience with Databricks in production environments
  • Advanced proficiency in PySpark
  • Excellent SQL skills (query optimization, complex joins, CTEs, window functions)
  • Experience with any major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and analytics patterns
  • Experience leading production-grade data pipelines

Leadership & Work Style Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Lead Data Engineer / Technical Lead
  • Ability to balance team leadership with individual contribution
  • Strong ownership mindset with excellent problem-solving skills
  • Experience working with global teams across time zones
  • Mandatory availability to support meetings and calls in US Pacific Time (PT)

Good-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with Delta Lake and Lakehouse architecture
  • Streaming technologies (Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming)
  • CI/CD pipelines for data platforms
  • Data governance, lineage, and security best practices
  • Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams

Benefits

What We Offer

  • Opportunity to work on modern cloud data platforms
  • Challenging, high-impact data projects
  • Collaborative and engineering-driven culture
Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we loveSoftware Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.Check out our Blog: https://mindera.com/ and our Handbook: http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbookOur offices are located: Aveiro, Portugal | Porto, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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