Group Manager- Data Engineering | Azure Databricks | Snowflake SQL | Team Management

WNS, part of Capgemini, is an Agentic AI-powered leader in intelligent operations and transformation, serving more than 700 clients across 10 industries, including Banking and Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Shipping and Logistics, and Travel and Hospitality. We bring together deep domain excellence – WNS’ core differentiator – with AI-powered platforms and analytics to help businesses innovate, scale, adapt and build resilience in a world defined by disruption.

 

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Data Engineering Lead



We are looking for a Data Engineering Lead with 8 to 12 years of experience to lead the build of data pipelines for an enterprise finance data platform on Azure, Databricks and Snowflake. You will run the data engineering team, own delivery from source systems through to certified Gold data products, and set the engineering standards the team works to.



KEY RESPONSIBILITIES



Lead a team of data engineers building ingestion and transformation pipelines



Deliver ingestion from finance source systems using change data capture, Azure Data Factory batch loads, API and event-driven feeds, and governed manual uploads



Build the Bronze, Silver and Gold layers in Databricks, including conformed dimensions and Gold data domains



Build Gold data domains for financial control, FP&A, tax, recharges and project accounting with the Data Architect



Publish certified data products from Databricks to Snowflake for reporting and analysis



Build data quality, reconciliation and matching checks into pipelines with the data quality team



Move recurring Dataiku analyst workflows into engineered Databricks pipelines



Set coding standards, branching, code review and CI/CD practices in Azure DevOps



Estimate work, plan sprints and report progress to the Engagement Manager



Tune pipeline performance and manage compute usage



Support production issues and handover to the support team



TECHNICAL SKILLS



Must-have



Databricks, including PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Workflows and Unity Catalog



Snowflake SQL, data loading and performance tuning



Azure Data Factory



Python and advanced SQL



Dimensional modelling



Git and CI/CD with Azure DevOps



Leading engineering teams in agile delivery



Good-to-have



Informatica CDC and PowerCenter



API Management, Service Bus and Functions



Delta Live Tables



Dataiku



Microsoft Purview



DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE



Banking finance data, including general ledger, sub-ledgers, intra-group and recharges



Finance systems such as SAP ECC, BW and BPC, TM1, Alfa and other lending platforms



Treasury and banking data from systems such as TMS, T24 and bank statement feeds



CERTIFICATIONS (GOOD TO HAVE)



Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional



SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer



EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS



8 to 12 years in data engineering, with at least 3 years leading teams



Delivered at least one cloud data platform on Databricks or Snowflake into production



Experience on data programmes in banking or financial services



Degree in engineering or computer a

Graduate/Post Graduate