Custom Software Engineer - AI & Data Engineering Specialist

Custom Software Engineer

Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Data Engineering
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As a Custom Software Engineer, you will engage in the development of custom software solutions that are designed to meet specific business needs. We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with deep expertise in Python, PySpark, and AWS AI modules to drive the development and deployment of advanced AI-powered applications, The ideal candidate will lead technical design, implementation, and optimisation efforts to deliver scalable and robust AI solutions within our cloud environment. Your typical day will involve coding, enhancing components, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the delivery of scalable and high-performing solutions. You will utilize modern frameworks and agile practices to create effective software applications, contributing to the overall success of projects and initiatives within the organization.

Roles & Responsibilities:
- Expected to be an SME.
- Collaborate and manage the team to perform.
- Responsible for team decisions.
- Engage with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions.
- Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams.
- Mentor junior team members to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Continuously evaluate and improve software development processes to increase efficiency.
- Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of AI-driven applications and data processing pipelines.
- Guide and mentor junior engineers, ensuring best practices in code quality, documentation, and testing.
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies and industry trends, proposing innovations to improve product capabilities.

Professional & Technical Skills:
- Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Data Engineering.
- Strong understanding of data pipeline architecture and ETL processes.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and in Python programming, with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation, Terraform), with strong knowledge of AI/ML libraries and frameworks and in architecting scalable, secure, and maintainable cloud-based applications.
- Familiarity with data warehousing solutions and big data technologies and strong understanding of machine learning concepts, model lifecycle management, and application integration.
- Ability to work with various programming languages relevant to data engineering and to develop and optimise PySpark jobs for large-scale data processing and machine learning workflows and to Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to AI models and cloud infrastructure.
- Should Utilise AWS AI services (such as SageMaker, Comprehend, Rekognition, etc.) to build, deploy, and manage AI models in production.
- Collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and other engineers to translate AI models into scalable software solutions and to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for AI and data engineering projects.
- Proven expertise in PySpark for distributed data processing and integration with AI workflows.
- Hands-on experience with AWS AI services and cloud infrastructure, including deployment and monitoring of AI models.
- Should have strong problem-solving skills and ability to lead technical discussions and decision-making with excellent communication skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams,
- Should have Knowledge of additional programming languages or AI platforms

Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Data Engineering.
- This position is based at our Gurugram office.
- A 15 years full time education is required.