Azure Senior Data Lead

We are HCLTech, one of the fastest‑growing large tech companies in the world and home to 220,000 people across 60 countries, supercharging progress through industry‑leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud.

Our people are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis. We work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.

Job Title:
Azure Data Engineer

Position Type:
Full‑time / Contract

Location:
Fremont, CA (Onsite)

• Accomplished Data Architect / Senior Data Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and modernizing enterprise data platforms across banking, healthcare and retail domains
• Architected scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, PySpark, Databricks, AWS Glue and Azure Data Factory, supporting high‑volume transactional and regulatory data processing.
• Led enterprise‑scale Data Architecture initiatives, defining logical and physical data models, governance standards and cloud‑native platform blueprints across AWS and Azure environments.
• Designed and implemented Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) Lakehouse architectures using Delta Lake, S3, ADLS Gen2, Snowflake, Redshift and Synapse Analytics.
• Engineered large‑scale distributed processing workloads using Apache Spark, PySpark, Databricks, EMR, Hive and HDFS, processing billions of records for enterprise analytics.
• Orchestrated complex data workflows using Apache Airflow, Databricks Workflows, AWS Step Functions and Azure Data Factory triggers, ensuring SLA‑driven pipeline execution.
• Strong hands‑on experience in Advanced SQL, including complex joins, CTEs, window functions, stored procedures, indexing strategies, partitioning and execution plan optimization across Snowflake, Postgre
  
  SQL and Oracle.
• Built real‑time streaming architectures using Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Azure Event Hub and Service Bus, supporting fraud detection, claims monitoring and operational telemetry.

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their work location, skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance‑based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program;

401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need‑based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.

HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to  for investigation.