Virtusa

Lead Data Engineer

Virtusa  •  Colombo, LK (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Lead Data Engineer-(CREQ265831)

Builds and operates the self-serve data platform that lets domain teams produce, publish, and consume data products without bespoke infrastructure work. They do not own data products or pipelines — they own the paved road that makes data products and pipelines cheap to ship.

Core skills

  • Cloud data platforms Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse
  • Infra-as-code Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep; Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
  • Catalog & discovery Unity Catalog, Purview, DataHub, Collibra, Atlan — these are how data products become findable and addressable in the mesh
  • Mesh-platform primitives data product templates (cookiecutter / blueprints), automated provisioning of storage + compute + access + monitoring per product, output-port standards, contract registry
  • Identity, access, encryption Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC, attribute-based access control, dynamic data masking, key management
  • Observability Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, lineage propagation, cost telemetry per data product
  • DevEx & FinOps developer portals (Backstage), chargeback/showback per domain, autoscaling and workload isolation
  • AI platform extensions feature stores, model registries (MLflow), vector DBs, governed LLM gateways

Primary Location

LK-1-Colombo

Schedule

Full Time

Employee Status

Individual Contributor

Job Type

Experienced

Travel

No

Job Posting

04/08/2026, 6:42:04 AM
Virtusa

About Virtusa

Virtusa is a global product and platform engineering services company that makes experiences better with technology. We help organizations grow faster, more profitably, and more sustainably by reimagining enterprises through domain-driven solutions. We combine strategy, design, and engineering, backed by unmatched expertise at the intersection of industry, business, and technology to generate real-world business impact for clients.

Headquartered in Massachusetts with global delivery centers, Virtusa provides a broad range of services, solutions, and assets, including strategy and design, AI advisory and services, digital engineering, data and analytics, digital assurance, cloud and security, cx transformation and managed services across industries such as financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Southborough, MA
Year Founded
1996
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