Lead Data & Gen AI Engineer (7+ Years minimum)

Role: Lead Data & Gen AI Engineer

Location: India (Remote)

Contract 1+ Year fixed-term contract( Fixed CTC- No benefits, No paid leave, and no PF Deduction )

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, data engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 7- years of relevant hands-on experience building, operating, and improving production data, software, AI, or cloud solutions. The overall capability, judgment, autonomy, and technical influence should be consistent individual contributor role.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience developing maintainable production code, APIs, tests, and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services and concepts such as Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Web Apps or App Services, Key Vault, storage, and deployment practices.
• Experience with modern data engineering technologies, including data modeling, Spark, orchestration or transformation tooling, and warehouse or lakehouse patterns.
• Experience with AI or application frameworks such as LangChain or related LLM frameworks, FastAPI, Pydantic, and API gateway patterns such as Kong.
• Working knowledge of containerization and deployment technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, plus source control and engineering artefacts including GitHub, JSON, JavaScript, Jupyter, YAML, and shell scripting.
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants as part of daily engineering work, with disciplined review of generated output.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and mentoring skills for guiding colleagues and influencing business, product, governance, architecture, security, data, and engineering teams.