Data & Decision Engineering Lead

About the job

Work Location: Chennai (Work From Office)

Department Overview

The Decision Support Systems (DSS) function enables data-driven decision-making across by delivering high-quality data pipelines analytical platforms and intelligent planning tools. The team partners with business leaders product teams and product engineering teams to convert raw data into actionable insights that power strategic operational and commercial decisions across the organization.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a Data Engineering Lead to drive the development and optimization of our enterprise data pipelines analytical data models and decision-support infrastructure this role you will design and build scalable ETL/ELT workflows manage data lake and warehouse environments and enable high-quality data availability for analytics BI and machine-learning use cases across the organization.

You will lead a small team of data engineers collaborate closely with business stakeholders BI analysts and data science teams and ensure strong engineering discipline in data modelling orchestration performance tuning and governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python & Airflow/Prefect
• Develop and optimize data lake data warehouse and data mart models
• Build star/snowflake schemas OLAP cubes and analytical structures
• Ensure data quality validation lineage and documentation across pipelines
• Partner with analytics & data science teams to enable ML-ready datasets
• Monitor pipeline performance and drive improvements in reliability & cost
• Guide and mentor a small team (23 engineers)
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to understand data needs and define solutions
• Ensure adherence to data governance access control and security standards
• Support BI teams with semantic layers curated data sets and performance tuning

Skill and Competencies:

• 610 years of experience in data engineering
• Strong Python SQL Airflow/Prefect
• Experience with lake warehouse mart architectures
• Hands-on dimensional modeling & OLAP systems
• Spark/Kafka experience is a strong plus
• Understanding of ML data pipelines & feature engineering workflows
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and code reviewing

About

Ltd a Great Place to Work Certified Wed-Tech company listed on the BSE and NSE is a leader in matchmaking and wedding services. Its flagship brand Bharat Matrimony is the largest and most trusted matrimony brand (Brand Trust Report 2014) spanning customers across the entire economic strata. The company serves over 8 million members with the support of 2900 associates and a network of 130 company-owned retail outlets.

Key Offerings

Matchmaking Services:

• BharatMatrimony and 200 matrimony brandssegmented on religion languages communities and occupation.
• Jodii:An exclusive matchmaking app for non-degree holders in 9 Indian languages
• Assisted Service and EliteMatrimony: Personalised services for the HNI NRI and Premium segment of customers

Wedding Services:

• Wedding Bazaar:Largest wedding services provider.
• : Largest online wedding venues platform.
• MakeMyWedding: Personalized & curated wedding planning services.

New Initiatives & Verticals

• Astro Free Chat:It is an exclusive app for any astrology consultation
• ManyJobs:Employment platform targeting grey collar vernacular language for the Tamil Nadu market (initial phase) and with some of industry first features for both companies and candidates
• : A next generation serious relationship app.

International Presence

has successfully expanded into international markets with UAE operations thriving for 4 years and Bangladesh operations commencing in 2021. With a mission to dominate the $55 billion wedding services industry.

Required Experience:

Manager