Senior Technical Lead - Data & AI (Oil & Gas)

Senior Technical Lead (Data & AI) / Delivery Owner

(Category - Principal Engineer / Technical Lead)

Sector: Oil and Gas

Location: Pune, India

About Us

At Codvo, we are committed to building scalable, future-ready data platforms that power business impact. We believe in a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth, where engineers can experiment, learn, and thrive. Join us to be part of a team that solves complex data challenges with creativity and cutting-edge technology.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to a multi-disciplinary team of engineers (Data, DevOps, Security). Foster a culture of high technical standards, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Detailed Solution Design: Partner with the Solutions Architect and Project Manager to decompose high-level architecture into detailed technical designs, actionable tasks, and implementation plans for the engineering team.

Hands-on Development: Act as the lead engineer, personally designing and building the most complex components of the solution, including data pipelines, IaC modules, and CI/CD frameworks.

Cross-Functional Integration: Drive the seamless integration of diverse systems, including OT data from historians (OSIsoft PI), data platforms (Databricks), cloud infrastructure (Azure), and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps).

Technical Governance & Quality: Enforce technical best practices across all domains. Conduct rigorous code reviews, design reviews, and security assessments. Ensure all solutions adhere to "security-by-design" principles, CI/CD automation standards, and data governance policies.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Translate complex technical concepts and risks to the Project Manager and business stakeholders. Manage technical dependencies and help the PM with accurate effort estimation and milestone tracking.

Problem Solving: Serve as the primary escalation point for the teams most complex technical challenges, leading root cause analysis and implementing robust, long-term solutions.

Required Skills & Experience

Experience: 12+ years in technical roles, with at least 4+ years in a technical leadership or principal engineer capacity, managing cross-functional engineering teams.

Cloud Expertise: Expert-level, hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure as a primary platform.

Data & AI Expertise:

o Proven mastery of Databricks and Apache Spark (PySpark).

o Extensive experience designing and building large-scale ETL/ELT data pipelines.

o Strong understanding of AI/ML workflows and data requirements for industrial AI use cases.

DevOps & IaC Expertise:

o Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM templates).

o Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes and containerization (Docker).

o Proven experience building and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins).

Cloud Security: Strong, practical knowledge of cloud network security (VNETs, NSGs, Firewalls) and identity management (Azure Key Vault, IAM).

Industry Knowledge:

o Experience in the Oil & Gas sector or a similar heavy-industry/critical infrastructure environment.

o Demonstrable experience with OT data sources (e.g., OSIsoft PI, SCADA, historians).

Leadership: Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, manage technical debt, and make critical design trade-offs.

Preferred Skills

Multi-cloud experience, particularly GCP.

Professional Certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Databricks Certified Data Engineer).

Experience with SAP integration.

Familiarity with the OSDU Data Platform.

Knowledge of graph databases or vector databases.