- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Education
- Certification
- Source
- Freshteam
Description
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 team's 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.