Senior Technical Lead

Senior Technical Lead (Data & AI) / Delivery Owner (Category – Principal Engineer / Technical Lead) Sector: Oil and Gas Location: Pune, India About Us At Codvo, we are committed to building scalable, future-ready data platforms that power business impact. We believe in a culture of innovation, collaboration, and growth, where engineers can experiment, learn, and thrive. Join us to be part of a team that solves complex data challenges with creativity and cutting-edge technology. Key Responsibilities •            Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and provide technical direction to a multi-disciplinary team of engineers (Data, DevOps, Security). Foster a culture of high technical standards, collaboration, and continuous improvement. •            Detailed Solution Design: Partner with the Solutions Architect and Project Manager to decompose high-level architecture into detailed technical designs, actionable tasks, and implementation plans for the engineering team. •            Hands-on Development: Act as the lead engineer, personally designing and building the most complex components of the solution, including data pipelines, IaC modules, and CI/CD frameworks. •            Cross-Functional Integration: Drive the seamless integration of diverse systems, including OT data from historians (OSIsoft PI), data platforms (Databricks), cloud infrastructure (Azure), and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps). •            Technical Governance & Quality: Enforce technical best practices across all domains. Conduct rigorous code reviews, design reviews, and security assessments. Ensure all solutions adhere to "security-by-design" principles, CI/CD automation standards, and data governance policies. •            Stakeholder Collaboration: Translate complex technical concepts and risks to the Project Manager and business stakeholders. Manage technical dependencies and help the PM with accurate effort estimation and milestone tracking. •            Problem Solving: Serve as the primary escalation point for the team's most complex technical challenges, leading root cause analysis and implementing robust, long-term solutions. Required Skills & Experience •            Experience: 12+ years in technical roles, with at least 4+ years in a technical leadership or principal engineer capacity, managing cross-functional engineering teams. •            Cloud Expertise: Expert-level, hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure as a primary platform. •            Data & AI Expertise: o            Proven mastery of Databricks and Apache Spark (PySpark). o            Extensive experience designing and building large-scale ETL/ELT data pipelines. o            Strong understanding of AI/ML workflows and data requirements for industrial AI use cases. •            DevOps & IaC Expertise: o            Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM templates). o            Hands-on mastery of Kubernetes and containerization (Docker). o            Proven experience building and managing complex CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins). •            Cloud Security: Strong, practical knowledge of cloud network security (VNETs, NSGs, Firewalls) and identity management (Azure Key Vault, IAM). •            Industry Knowledge: o            Experience in the Oil & Gas sector or a similar heavy-industry/critical infrastructure environment. o            Demonstrable experience with OT data sources (e.g., OSIsoft PI, SCADA, historians). •            Leadership: Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, manage technical debt, and make critical design trade-offs. Preferred Skills •            Multi-cloud experience, particularly GCP. •            Professional Certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Databricks Certified Data Engineer). •            Experience with SAP integration. •            Familiarity with the OSDU™ Data Platform. •            Knowledge of graph databases or vector databases.