Senior/ Lead Data Engineer

Our client is a global consulting firm operating from 30+ offices worldwide across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. As a trusted advisor to the Office of the CFO, they partner with management teams and private equity sponsors to solve complex finance, accounting, and transformation challenges - free from audit independence constraints. The Mandate: You will build governed, audit-ready pipelines that turn fragmented client data into trusted, AI-ready assets. This is a central, load-bearing role working alongside AI Engineers and Data Scientists. Key Responsibilities: • Build and operate end-to-end ingestion pipelines from ERP, clinical, customer and operational systems (batch + streaming) into a governed lakehouse. • Own transformation, modelling, and semantic layer to ensure consistent business logic across BI and AI. • Prepare and serve AI-ready data - curated datasets, embeddings, and RAG corpora. • Own data quality, master data / entity resolution, and end-to-end lineage for audit readiness. • Embed governance, privacy & security by design (PDPA and APAC data residency / cross-border rules). • Build reusable accelerators and set engineering standards for the practice. Must Have: 5-10 years of hands-on production data engineering, end-to-end delivery experience, and client-facing stakeholder management. Tech Stack: Expert Python & SQL, dbt, Snowflake / Databricks, Airflow / Dagster, Iceberg / Delta Lake, plus strong understanding of data governance, vector stores, and cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP). Originally posted on Himalayas