Associate Data Engineering Lead

vConstruct, a Pune-based Construction Technology company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for its Data Science and Analytics team, a close-knit group of analysts and engineers supporting all data aspects of the business. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data infrastructure, ensuring data integrity, and supporting various data-driven projects. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate, process, and manage data from various sources, enabling business insights and enhancing operational efficiency. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership for the end-to-end design and development of scalable, high-performance data pipelines and ETL/ELT frameworks aligned with enterprise data engineering best practices. Lead, mentor, and guide a team of data engineers, providing technical direction, conducting design and code reviews, and supporting career development. Own and evolve the data architecture for complex data integration workflows involving structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across cloud and on-premises environments. Design and oversee robust real-time, batch, and on-demand pipelines with enterprise-grade observability, monitoring, alerting, and automated error handling. Partner with analysts, data scientists, and business leaders to define and deliver reliable data models, quality frameworks, and SLAs that power key business insights. Ensure optimal pipeline performance and throughput, with clearly defined SLAs and proactive alerting for data delivery or quality issues. Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and architecture teams to build secure, reusable, and CI/CD-enabled data workflows that align with enterprise architecture standards. Establish and enforce the best practices in source control, code reviews, testing automation, and continuous delivery for all data engineering components. Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and preventive maintenance for critical data failures, ensuring minimal bu...