Senior Software Engineer Azure Data Engineer

Position Description:

At CGI were a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to 72000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976 CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources expertise stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve. At CGI were a team of builders. We call our employees members because all who join CGI are building their own company - one that has grown to 72000 professionals located in 40 countries. Founded in 1976 CGI is a leading IT and business process services firm committed to helping clients succeed. We have the global resources expertise stability and dedicated professionals needed to achieve results for our clients - and for our members. Come grow with us. Learn more at .

This is a great opportunity to join a winning team. CGI offers a competitive compensation package with opportunities for growth and professional development. Benefits for full-time permanent members start on the first day of employment and include a paid time-off program and profit participation and stock purchase plans. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position however only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No unsolicited agency referrals please.


Job Title: Senior Azure Data Engineer
Position: Senior software engineer/ developer
Experience: 5-8 years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: Second Shift (Timing:1PM to 10PM)
Work Mode: 5 days Work from Office (ODC Banking Client)
Main location: Bangalore & Chennai

Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Any graduation or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
Position Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Azure Data Engineer to join our growing data team. The role involves designing developing and operationalizing large-scale data processing systems on the Azure cloud platform. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Azure Databricks Azure Data Lake PySpark and Python with a proven ability to build efficient scalable and reliable data pipelines.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Design and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting processing and transforming structured and unstructured data.
Develop and optimize Spark jobs using PySpark and Spark SQL within Azure Databricks.
Implement Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2) solutions following medallion architecture (Bronze Silver Gold layers).
Collaborate with stakeholders (data architects analysts business teams) to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Ensure data security and compliance with access controls encryption and masking.
Perform data modeling for batch and real-time analytics (star schema snowflake data vault).
Monitor and troubleshoot pipelines for performance and cost optimization.
Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) and IaC tools (Terraform/Bicep).
Establish data quality checks and governance standards.
Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in data engineering.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

5 years of professional experience in data engineering with enterprise-grade solutions.
3 years of hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure data services including:
Azure Databricks: Spark clusters notebooks tuning debugging.
Medallion Architecture (Bronze Silver Gold).
Experience with Azure Data Factory or Apache Airflow for orchestration.
Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2): Directory structure RBAC/ACLs performance optimization.
Strong programming skills in Python (Pandas APIs unit testing).
Expert-level proficiency in PySpark (DataFrame API Spark SQL Catalyst Optimizer).
Advanced SQL development and optimization.
Solid understanding of data modeling concepts.
Familiarity with Git and collaborative development practices.

Technical Skills
Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203) certification.
Experience with Delta Lake (ACID transactions schema enforcement time travel).
Real-time data processing with Azure Stream Analytics or Spark Streaming.
Knowledge of Synapse Analytics Event Hubs Azure SQL DB Cosmos DB Purview.
Exposure to DevOps/DataOps principles and tools (CI/CD Terraform Azure DevOps).
Familiarity with Power BI or other visualization tools.

Skills:

• Azure
• Azure Data Lake
• Communication
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Python

What you can expect from us:

Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. Youll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas embrace new opportunities and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our teamone of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.