Data Engineer I, Global GBS

All Posting Locations: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IN

Job Functions: Global Business Services

Date Published: September 12, 2025

Ref#: R-96421

ABOUT THE ROLE

Job Description

GBS Analytics COE –Data Engineer

About the Position

We have an excellent opportunity available for a Data Engineer to make a difference at Kraft Heinz. The Data Engineer role lies within the newly created Analytics Centre of Excellence within the Global Business Services organization. The Analytics COE has been set up to build, maintain and enhance analytical products for our business to generate actionable insights from data and make better informed decisions. The individual for this position will be a technical expert providing leadership and expertise in the areas of data management, data quality, data governance, and data engineering. They will provide hands-on design, preparation, and development of data solutions for analytical products. They will work with internal stakeholders to translate business problems into data requirements and then create the data solutions to enable the development of analytical tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deliver and maintain the appropriate data solution to provide the correct data for analytical development to address key issues within the organization.
• Gather detailed data requirements and collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver high quality results (such as Tableau developers, analysts, business users).
• Develop and operate modern data architecture approaches to meet key business objectives and provide end-to-end data solutions.
• Contribute to generic frameworks for data ingestion, data processing, and data integrations per business requirements.
• Extend DevOps capabilities for deploying data solutions.
• Supports creation and adoption of data assets for the organization, putting data quality as the focus of all data solutions.
• Act as a data owner and functional data SME for the assigned area.

• Lead the coaching of all junior data engineering resources.
• Ensure effective and timely delivery of project work, raising issues and risks in a timely manner to project manager to ensure appropriate actions can be taken to mitigate.
• Ensure effective and timely delivery of project work.
• Enforce best practices for data design, architecture, and implementation.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Statistics, Business, Information Technology, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in delivering and supporting data engineering capabilities and building enterprise data solutions and data assets
• Strong experience with cloud services within Azure, AWS, or GCP platforms (preferably Azure)
• Strong experience with analytical tools (preferably SQL, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau)
• Experience with design and software programming development (preferably Python, Javascript and/or R)
• Experience building APIs (experience with GraphQL is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and CI/CD processes
• Experience in Agile methodologies (certifications preferred)
• Project management experience and strong communication skills
• Self-Starter, driven with high business process acumen
• Team Player with a positive attitude and ability to work across different business stakeholder and technical teams to accomplish complex tasks

Professional Attributes

• Communication Skills

o At Kraft Heinz you'll easily be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore, it's important you have excellent communication skills, to deal with all kinds of different stakeholders.
• Analytical o We're a very data driven company. You know how to translate complex data into a simple solution with your analytical mindset.

• Curiosity, positivity & enthusiasm

o You're curious, positive and enthusiastic. People know you as the driver of the team.

• Project management skills

o Time management has no secrets for you. You're organized, structured and always have an overview of all the deliverables. You know how to bring multiple projects to a successful ending within the given timeframe.

• Team player

o Achieving results is nice, but achieving results with the team is simply the best. You're a team player, which means you're sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower but always working towards the same common goal together with your teammates.

What we offer you

• An ambitious employer; we only want to the best for you;
• A fast career track like only few other companies can match;
• A competitive salary
• Always room for new ideas; if you have an excellent idea, please let us know and we can set it in action

Location(s)

Ahmedabad – Mondeal Heights – GBS Center

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.