Senior Principal Data Engineer
at Gen Digital
IND - Pune; IND - Chennai, remote, senior, full time, 6–10 years
posted 15 Apr 2026
- Apache Iceberg
- Kimball dimensional data warehouses
- Star schema
- GitFlow
- SQL Mesh
- Trunk-based development
- SQL
- Data Lakehouse
- Snowflake
- DBT
- CI/CD
- Apache Kafka
- AWS
- Python
About the role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Principal Data Engineer to serve as a technical leader responsible for architecting systems within your team's domain and driving complex, cross-team projects that directly support our cybersecurity platform's strategic objectives. This role requires someone who can architect systems within your team's domain, reasonably be expected to come up with and drive the projects that your crew should do to solve complex business problems, and actively mentor other engineers.
As a Senior Principal Data Engineer, you will fully understand and own multiple entire areas of the codebase or multiple services, work with your Manager or a Technical Director to validate your technical decisions when you ask for input, and contribute significantly to our data engineering practices and standards.
What you would do
- Cross-Team Projects: Lead projects that cross teams, actively working with your Manager to set the technical vision for your team
- Problem Solving: Be handed a problem and reasonably be expected to come up with and drive the projects that your crew should do to solve that problem
- System Architecture: Architect systems that are within your team's domain, with guidance from Manager or Technical Director when needed
- Domain Ownership: Fully understand and own multiple entire areas of the codebase or multiple services
- Technology Integration: Lead evaluation and implementation of new technologies that benefit your team's domain
- Quality Standards: Ensure all work meets our high-quality pull request standards and follows established engineering processes
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate across teams inside the Data Engineering org, represent your team as needed, and reach out to external stakeholders for clarifications
- Mentoring: Actively mentor IC7s and IC8s, focusing on adopting our processes, technical knowledge, and quality of execution
- Stakeholder Engagement: Work with engineers in the rest of Gen to help move the org forward
- Technical Output: Minimum 4+ PRs per week (GitFlow) or 6+ PRs per week (Trunk-based development)
- Code Reviews: 2+ comprehensive reviews per day from anyone in the areas/services you contribute to
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