Senior Data Engineer

Role Description

Ready to turn bold ideas into real-world impact? At Genpact, we don’t just adapt to change, we lead it. AI and digital innovation are transforming the way businesses work, and we’re at the forefront of it.

Genpact’s AI Gigafactory, our industry-first accelerator, exemplifies how we scale advanced technology solutions to help global enterprises work smarter, grow faster, and transform at scale. Whether tackling complex challenges through large-scale models or agentic AI, our breakthrough solutions tackle companies’ most complex challenges.

If you thrive in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment, love building and deploying cutting-edge AI solutions, and want to push the boundaries of what’s possible, this is your moment.

Job Description:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance real-time data processing applications using Apache Flink.
• Develop in-flight transformation logic leveraging Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, KSQLDB, and Kafka Single Message Transforms (SMTs).
• Build and maintain scalable mapping frameworks for transforming source system data into harmonized enterprise data models.
• Implement complex event processing, enrichment, filtering, aggregation, and windowing logic for streaming workloads.
• Optimize streaming pipeline performance, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
• Design solutions to handle late-arriving and out-of-order events using event-time processing, watermarks, checkpointing, and state management.
• Integrate streaming applications with Kafka, Schema Registry, APIs, and downstream analytical platforms.
• Implement robust error handling, retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues (DLQ), and monitoring for streaming applications.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Data Architects, API teams, and business stakeholders to define transformation rules and streaming integration patterns.
• Develop automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines for streaming applications.
• Monitor production streaming jobs and troubleshoot performance, scalability, and reliability issues.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of experience in Data Engineering with strong expertise in real-time streaming solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Flink for enterprise-scale stream processing.
• Strong knowledge of Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQLDB, Kafka Connect, and Single Message Transforms (SMTs).
• Experience designing event-driven data architectures and real-time data integration pipelines.
• Strong understanding of event-time processing, watermarks, windowing, checkpointing, stateful stream processing, and fault tolerance.
• Experience developing data transformation and harmonization frameworks for enterprise data platforms.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Scala; Python knowledge is desirable.
• Experience with Avro, Protobuf, JSON, Schema Registry, and serialization techniques.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale structured and semi-structured datasets.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP is preferred.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring tools is an advantage.

Requirements

• Experience with Confluent Platform and enterprise Kafka deployments.
• Exposure to modern data lakehouse platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Delta Lake.
• Knowledge of CDC patterns, API integration, and enterprise integration architectures.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.

Benefits

• Lead AI-powered transformation – Drive innovation and solve real-world business challenges that matter.
• Make an impact – Help global enterprises solve business challenges that matter.
• Accelerate your career – Gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and world-class learning opportunities to stay ahead.
• Work with the best – Join 140,000+ bold thinkers and problem-solvers who push boundaries every day.
• Thrive in a values-driven culture – Our courage, curiosity, and incisiveness - built on a foundation of integrity and inclusion - allow your ideas to fuel progress.