# Lead Data Engineer (Remote India) ## Summary - Organization: Recrew AI - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Type: Full-Time - Department: N/A - Status: active - Posted: [object Object] - Updated: [object Object] - Closing Date: N/A - External Apply: Yes - External Apply URL: https://talent.recrew.ai/careers/lead-aws-data-engineer-8a59b7/apply/ ## Details - Salary: N/A - Experience: N/A - Education: N/A - Team: N/A - Reporting To: N/A ## Description **About the job** Role: Lead AWS Data Engineer Function: Data Engineering Location: Remote (India) Type: Full-time Industry: Information Technology & Services, Management Consulting **About Company** The company is a digital engineering firm founded in 2020, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It specializes in AI-driven digital transformation for enterprises. Services span platform engineering, data analytics, quality engineering, digital customer experience, and supply chain transformation. The company operates from seven global delivery centers across Toronto, Dallas, Belgrade, Johannesburg, Bogota, Bangalore, and Trivandrum. It has completed 55+ projects across 25+ countries, with a 450+ person team. In 2023, the company expanded its product engineering capabilities through a strategic acquisition. **Position Overview** This role owns the design, development, and production support of scalable AWS-native data platforms serving enterprise analytics, reporting, and operational workloads. The engineer will independently drive complex data initiatives end-to-end — from architecture through deployment — while setting engineering standards and mentoring the data engineering team. The position sits at the intersection of deep technical execution and cross-functional stakeholder collaboration, translating business requirements into reliable, cost-optimized data solutions. **Role & Responsibilities** - Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, MWAA (Apache Airflow), Lambda, Redshift, DMS, S3, Kinesis, DynamoDB, and RDS. - Develop data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks in Python, PySpark, and SQL supporting both batch and near real-time processing. - Design and implement dimensional data models, data marts, and enterprise data warehouse solutions with a focus on performance, partitioning, and cost optimization. - Build and enforce data quality, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and alerting frameworks to ensure end-to-end data integrity. - Lead solution design and architecture discussions — providing recommendations on data models, integration patterns, and technology choices. - Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation for data engineering workloads, including Git-based version control and IaC practices using Terraform. - Perform root cause analysis on production incidents, drive resolution, and implement preventive measures across the data platform. - Mentor engineers, conduct code and technical reviews, and define engineering best practices covering testing, documentation, and deployment standards. **Must Have Criteria** - 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering with significant hands-on experience building AWS-based data platforms. - Deep expertise with AWS data services: Redshift, Glue, S3, Lambda, DMS, MWAA (Apache Airflow), Kinesis, DynamoDB, and RDS. - Advanced proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL for ETL/ELT development at enterprise scale. - Strong experience with data warehousing principles: dimensional modelling, normalization/denormalization, partitioning, and query performance optimization. - Hands-on experience with CI/CD processes, Git-based version control, and automated deployment practices for data workloads. - Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and JSON-based datasets in production environments. - Proven ability to support production data platforms — including incident management, debugging, and performance tuning. **Nice to Have** - AWS Certification (Solutions Architect or equivalent). - Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data solutions. - Exposure to data governance, security, and compliance best practices. - Experience in eCommerce, Retail, or Digital Commerce data domains — customer, product, order, inventory, or marketing datasets. - Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments. **What We Offer** - Fully remote engagement with a globally distributed team spanning seven delivery centers. - Opportunity to lead high-complexity, enterprise-scale data engineering initiatives across 25+ countries. - Work at the forefront of AI-driven digital transformation alongside a 450+ person engineering team. - Culture of ownership, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. ## Responsibilities None ## Skills None ## Tags None ## Organization - Name: Recrew AI - Website: https://www.recrew.ai - Industry: Staffing and Recruiting - Size: 11-50 employees - Founded Year: N/A - Description: Recrew is a recruiting company built for how talent acquisition should work, not how it has always worked. We combine proprietary AI agents with a curated network of specialist recruiters to deliver full-service hiring for startups, mid-market companies, and Global Capability Centers. No retainers or bloated teams, just mandates filled with the right people. The traditional recruiting agency model is broken. Incentives are misaligned, pipelines are thin, and most firms sell you a team that is learning on your dime. We built Recrew to fix that by screening at scale with human recruiters who have earned their stripes in specific industries and functions. Our model is simple: We only win when you make a hire. That keeps us honest. We also build the AI infrastructure that powers recruiting at scale. Our API-based products handle resume parsing, job description analysis, and candidate matching using large language models built for the specific demands of talent acquisition. Recruiters, ATS platforms, and staffing firms use our technology to screen faster, match more accurately, and reduce the manual work that slows down every hiring team. We work with companies that care about hiring quality and hiring speed. Whether you need a recruiting partner to fill critical roles or AI tools to power your existing team, Recrew is built for both. Visit www.recrew.ai to see the platform or book a conversation with our team.