Technical Project Lead - Data Engineering

Designation : Project Lead

Experience : 6+ Years

Location : Pune, India / Travel to Customer Site / Hybrid, based on project needs

Role Purpose :

Own end-to-end delivery and deployments for customer implementations, including planning, technical coordination, data onboarding, integration, deployment readiness, customer engagement, and post-go-live stabilization. The role requires strong Python and data engineering expertise combined with team leadership and customer-facing delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead end-to-end implementation and deployment of solutions across customer environments, including edge, on-premises, private cloud, and enterprise deployments.

• Own delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, acceptance criteria, and go-live readiness.

• Coordinate Python, data engineering, AI/LLM, DevOps, UI, QA, and integration teams to ensure timely execution.

• Translate customer requirements into implementation workstreams, technical tasks, configuration requirements, and delivery priorities.

• Lead data onboarding activities including source assessment, data mapping, ingestion readiness, schema validation, transformation requirements, and data-quality checks.

• Provide technical guidance on Python services, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, data processing, workflow orchestration, and integration patterns.

• Drive deployment planning across infrastructure provisioning, environment configuration, access controls, security prerequisites, release management, and production validation.

• Act as the primary customer-facing delivery lead for implementation discussions, technical workshops, status reviews, issue resolution, and operational handover.

• Manage customer expectations, communicate delivery status clearly, and escalate risks or dependencies proactively.

• Lead onsite or remote deployment activities, including installation, configuration, user acceptance testing, training coordination, and support.

• Review delivery quality, validate technical outputs, and ensure that implemented features meet agreed functional and operational requirements.

• Establish implementation documentation including deployment runbooks, integration specifications, configuration guides, UAT checklists, release notes, and handover documents.

• Mentor implementation engineers and ensure appropriate task allocation, technical review, accountability, and delivery discipline across the project team.

• Support pre-sales and solutioning teams when required for implementation estimation, deployment architecture, technical feasibility, and customer workshops.