IT Deployment, Data Engineer - Chennai

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As a data engineer within our Contract Logistics Global Reporting team, you will implement and evolve modern data archietcture and pipelines that provide the source-of-truth data regarding shipments across the company. Working within an established BI landscape and driving the evolution towards a cloud-native stack centred on Dagster, dbt, Snowflake, and AWS, you will ensure that data flows reliably from diverse source systems into curated data products, fitting the needs of a data-driven logistics enterprise. You will ensure cloud-based infrastructure is utilised as efficiently as possible across data science products and projects, enabling downstream BI consumers and analysts to make timely, data-driven decisions.

How you create impact

• Implement and model analytical output ports for our data products, ensuring they are discoverable and consumable across domains
• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines using Dagster as the primary orchestration framework, progressively modernising existing ETL workflows
• Build and manage data transformation layers using dbt, ensuring well-tested, documented, and version-controlled models
• Ensure proper operation and evolution of data models and resulting data sets, maintaining them as the source of truth for shipment data
• Architect and optimise Snowflake data warehouse structures including schemas, tables, views, and materialisation strategies
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure components supporting the data platform (S3, Lambda, IAM, EC2, etc.)
• Build and operate data-centric infrastructure in collaboration with DevOps specialists
• Integrate data from a variety of source systems including logistics and supply chain platforms (e.g. TMS, WMS, ERP) as well as Oracle and PostgreSQL databases
• Provide an analytics and data quality focused perspective to existing shipping data products
• Evaluate new tools and technologies to enhance the data platform landscape
• Work alongside the existing BI development team to understand current ETL processes and data models, ensuring continuity during platform modernisation
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting across pipeline stages
• Collaborate with reporting analysts and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver appropriate models
• Maintain CI/CD workflows for data pipeline code and infrastructure-as-code deployments, complementing existing Jenkins-based automation where appropriate
• Contribute to data governance practices including cataloguing, lineage tracking, and documentation
• Support and troubleshoot production data issues, performing root cause analysis and remediation

What we would like you to bring

What's in it for you

• Work with a Global Leader - Join one of the world's top logistics companies with a strong international presence and reputation.
• Career Development - Access structured growth opportunities, professional training, and internal mobility within a global organization.
• Attractive Compensation - Competitive salary with performance-based incentives and benefits.
• Collaborative Work Culture - Be part of a supportive, ethical, and compliance-driven team environment.
• Local Role, Global Impact - Influence regional business growth while working with global tools, systems, and best practices.