Senior Staff Engineer - Data Engineering

Role description

Experience: 12+ years

Location: Bengaluru, India | Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Customer's data governance baseline is zero - no deletion or retention policies were historically enforced, data volumes have accumulated across four production SQL Server environments, and no governance tooling is in place. The Data Governance Lead will build csutomer's governance programme from the ground up. This is a critical, high-visibility role confirmed as a strategic priority, Data and AI Lead.

Data Environment

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years in data governance, data management, or information management

• Proven experience building governance programmes from zero maturity in regulated financial services

• Specific expertise: data retention, deletion policy design, and data lifecycle management — essential, not optional

• Deep knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, or equivalent frameworks

• Strong PCI DSS, GDPR, and FCA regulatory data requirements expertise

• Experience governing legacy SQL Server estates with accumulated data and absent lifecycle controls

• Familiarity with Redshift, DBT, DynamoDB in a governance context

• Excellent stakeholder management — able to influence engineering, compliance, and business leadership

• Strong written communication for policy, standards, and governance documentation

Skills

DBT, Data Management, Amazon Dynamo Db, Communication