Sr Data Engineer

About the role

The Senior Data Engineer is a seasoned, hands-on engineer who designs, builds, and scales data products on our cloud lakehouse, powering analytics, reporting, and AI/ML across Illumina. We are looking for someone with strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and data modeling, a solid understanding of distributed systems and system design who has built and scaled data products on modern cloud platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.

What you'll do

• Partner across business, AI, and platform teams translating domain needs (e.g., SAP, Manufacturing, Quality) into well-modeled, governed and scalable data products
• Design, build, and scale end-to-end data products on Databricks (and interoperating with Snowflake) — from ingestion through curated
• Develop reusable frameworks, libraries, and standardized patterns in Python (functional and OOP as appropriate) for ingestion, transformation, validation, and publishing
• Design robust data models (relational, dimensional, and lakehouse) and apply strong system-design judgment to build performant
• Monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and SLA adherence for business-critical datasets

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Python
• Databricks
• Snowflake
• dbt
• Data modelling
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• AWS
• REST APIs
• CI/CD
• Git
• SAP HANA
• Power BI