Lead Data & AI Ops Engineer, Data & AI Engineering

Role Overview

We are seeking a high-potential, hands-on Lead Data & AI Operations Engineer to own and continuously improve the operational health, governance, controls, reliability, and efficiency of our enterprise Data & AI ecosystem.

This is a high-impact technical leadership role with end-to-end accountability for Data & AI Operations across the company. The successful candidate will establish the operating model, engineering controls, automation, observability, and governance required to run Data & AI platforms as reliable, secure, and cost-efficient enterprise services.

The ideal candidate combines deep Snowflake and Data Engineering expertise with a strong operations and controls mindset. This engineer will also design, build, and deliver technical solutions and platform capabilities required to achieve operational excellence and efficiency goals.

Key Responsibilities

·       Supported end-to-end Data & AI Operations and Production Support across enterprise data platforms, data pipelines, analytics, BI, and AI/ML workloads, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, and SLA adherence.

·       Provided day-to-day Snowflake production support and administration, including workload monitoring, query performance analysis, troubleshooting, access/RBAC management, capacity monitoring, and platform health checks.

·       Supported and enhanced Data Engineering pipelines and workflows, troubleshooting data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, processing, and downstream data delivery issues across production environments.

·       Supported AI/ML and GenAI workloads in production, including monitoring application and model-related jobs, data dependencies, API integrations, scheduled processes, failures, and overall operational health.

·       Contributed to AI Operations (AIOps) capabilities by using AI/GenAI tools for incident analysis, log summarization, anomaly identification, troubleshooting assistance, knowledge retrieval, and faster root-cause analysis.

·       Developed Python scripts, APIs, workflow automation, RPA, and AI-assisted automation to reduce repetitive operational activities, automate health checks and validations, accelerate issue resolution, and improve support productivity.

·       Supported the implementation of intelligent monitoring and anomaly detection across data pipelines, Snowflake workloads, and AI services to proactively identify failures, performance degradation, unusual patterns, and operational risks.

·       Assisted in developing automated remediation and self-healing operational workflows for common production issues, reducing manual intervention and improving the Resolution SLA.

·       Used GenAI-based operational assistants to support troubleshooting, incident summarization, RCA preparation, log analysis, runbook recommendations, and knowledge management activities.

·       Monitored production data pipelines, ETL/ELT jobs, orchestration workflows, AI workloads, APIs, and platform services, investigated failures, performed impact analysis, and coordinated timely service restoration.

·       Performed data quality checks, reconciliation, validation, and root-cause analysis to identify data discrepancies and ensure accurate, complete, and reliable data delivery to downstream applications and AI/analytics workloads.

·       Supported enterprise data platform controls covering data quality, access, security, privacy, metadata, lineage, change management, and production readiness.

·       Monitored Snowflake and cloud consumption, performance, and utilization, identified inefficient queries and workloads, and supported optimization initiatives to improve performance and control platform costs.

·       Built and maintained observability, monitoring, alerting, operational dashboards, automated health checks, and proactive notifications across Data and AI platforms.

·       Managed Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management activities, including production troubleshooting, service restoration, RCA documentation, change validation, deployment support, and permanent remediation of recurring issues.

·       Supported DataOps, MLOps, AIOps, and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, testing, deployment, release validation, version control, monitoring, documentation, and production support.

·       Worked closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, BI, AI/ML, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and business teams to troubleshoot production issues, manage dependencies, and implement platform improvements.

·       Participated in on-call and production support activities, ensuring critical Data and AI incidents were addressed within agreed SLAs and appropriately communicated to stakeholders.

·       Identified recurring operational issues and implemented automation, AI-assisted solutions, process improvements, and permanent fixes to reduce manual effort, prevent repeat incidents, and improve production stability.

·       Contributed to continuous improvement by promoting operational discipline, automation-first practices, documentation, reusable runbooks, knowledge sharing, and Data/AI production support best practices.

What We Are Looking For

·       8–12 years of experience across Data Engineering, Data Platforms, Data Ops, Cloud Engineering, or Production Operations, with demonstrated technical leadership.

·       Deep hands-on Snowflake expertise, including architecture, administration, SQL, performance tuning, workload management, security/RBAC, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.

·       Strong experience designing and building engineering solutions, not just administering or supporting Data Platforms.

·       Demonstrated FinOps and cost optimization experience, with measurable outcomes in Snowflake/cloud consumption reduction, workload optimization, cost attribution, and efficiency improvement.

·       Strong experience building automation using RPA platforms, Python, APIs, workflow automation, and AI/GenAI tools.

·       Strong expertise with dBT and enterprise ETL/ELT technologies such as Fivetran, Informatica, and Azure Data Factory.

·       Experience implementing DataOps, CI/CD, observability, data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, and automated platform controls.

·       Strong understanding of production operations, incident/problem management, RCA, change management, and platform reliability engineering.

·       Experience with enterprise BI platforms such as Power BI and Looker.

·       Ability to operate as both a hands-on engineer and technical leader/manager, taking problems from identification through solution architecture, engineering, implementation, and measurable business outcome.

NOTES: 

·       Prefer candidates already residing in Bangalore. 

·       Standard Shift Timing is 12noon to 9pm, however this may vary depending on the business requirements. 

·       3 Days work from office.

·       Weekend on call support is required.