Principal Engineer

Location:Mumbai India (roles in Andheri East and / or Turbhe)

We are hiringPrincipal / Lead Engineersto design build and scalerobust production-grade data and platform systemswithinAccelerate People (AP) an ed-tech venture within Blenheim. This is ahands-on engineering leadership rolewhere you will own complex problem areas end-to-end influence system architecture mentor engineers and deliver scalable solutions in a fast-growing product-led environment.

If you enjoy working with ambiguity building platforms from the ground up and shipping real business impact wed love to hear from you.

About Blenheim Chalcot:

Blenheim Chalcot India is part of Blenheim Chalcot a global venture builder headquartered in London. With over 26 years of innovation weve been at the forefront of creating some of the most groundbreaking GenAI-enabled companies. Our ventures lead the charge in digital disruption across a spectrum of industries from FinTech to EdTech GovTech to Media and beyond. Our global presence spans the US Europe and Southeast Asia with a portfolio that employs over 3000 individuals manages assets exceeding 1.8 billion and boasts total portfolio sales of over 500 million.

About Accelerate People (AP)

Accelerate People (AP)is Blenheim Chalcots product portfolio in ed-tech space and assessment platform transforming how apprenticeships and professional assessments are delivered at scale in the UK.

AP owns itsend-to-end assessment platform replacing legacy systems with:

• AI-driven grading and automation
• Dynamic scheduling and workflow orchestration
• Full data ownership and platform control

The Role:

As aPrincipal / Lead Engineer you will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable systems across APs core platforms. You will collaborate closely withProduct Data and Engineering teams in Mumbai and London helping shape technical direction while remaining hands-on.

Key Responsibilities:

Successful candidates will take a leading role within our Engineering Centre of Excellence in Mumbai with day to day responsibilities which will include.

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the planning and execution of projects ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise to the team promoting best practices in engineering.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
• Implement and maintain ELT (Extract Load Transform) processes using scalable pipelines and data architecture.
• Ensure data integrity and quality across various data sources.
• Support data-driven decision-making by providing clean reliable and timely data.
• Design develop and maintain the data models used by ML Engineers Data Analysts and Data Scientists to access data.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns and trends.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and drive continuous improvement in operations.
• Stay updated on industry trends technologies and best practices in engineering.

About You:

We are seeking to onboard candidates with a track record of leading complex delivery demonstrating technical depth and pragmatic leadership. Youre handson when it matters coach others effectively and make clear design tradeoffs that improve customer and business outcomes. You communicate crisply collaborate across functions and keep teams focused on the few things that move the needle.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Professional experience infull-stack software engineering with evidence of architecting and delivering production systems at scale.
• Proven experience mentoring and developing engineers and raising code quality standards.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used in engineering such asPythonorJava.
• Extensive experience with database systems includingSQLandNoSQLdatabases.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud data platforms likeAWSorAzure(e.g. S3 Redshift Glue Data Factory Azure Synapse etc.).
• Experience withCI/CD practicesfor data solutions.
• Proven ability to takeownership over outputsand drive complex data projects to completion.
• Highlyadaptableand comfortable working inambiguous problem-solving environments.
• Strong evidence ofteamworkand successfulcross-functional delivery; including particularly with customers Product Marketing and Sales.
• Excellent communication leadership and collaboration skills.
  

Behaviours that we look for

• Rigorous problem-solving and systems thinking.Breaks down complex problems evaluates multiple approaches and designs scalable maintainable architectures.
• Clean performant and secure code. Chooses suitable data structures writes readable & defensive code and bakes in performance and security from the start.
• Test-first and observable engineering. Designs for testability automates meaningful unit/integration tests and implements robust logging metrics and monitoring.
• Production and operations excellence. Understands CI/CD infrastructure and cost drivers engineers for reliable development resilience and fast recovery.
• Data-driven outcome-focused decisions. Validates ideas with data plans for schema evaluation and aligns features with real user impact.

Process - We have a rigorous but streamlined recruitment process which respects the time of candidates and portfolio companies alike. This process starts with a 30-minute call with our Talent Acquisition team and a member of the Engineering Centre of Excellence followed by further interviews with the Engineering Centre of Excellence team.

Please note that our roles are primarily office based with modern and well-connected office locations in both Andheri East and Navi Mumbai.

Blenheim Chalcot is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity is one of our core values thus making it core to our business. We strive to maximize the diversity of our workforce and welcome applications from everyone. We encourage diversity through perspective background identity and thought whilst also fostering an environment where everyone can express themselves regardless of your race religion sex gender colour national origin disability or any other applicable legally protected characteristic. We are committed to continuing to nurture an inclusive environment and building a diverse workforce.

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