Lead Data Platform Engineer

Lead Data Platform Engineer

Company:

Boeing India Private Limited

Overview

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

Technology for today and tomorrow

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500+ engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

People-driven culture

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring together different perspectives and thoughts – enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected.  No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people’s careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

Boeing Test and Evaluation team is currently looking for one Lead Data Platform Engineer to join their team in Bengaluru, KA. Test & Evaluation engineers at Boeing make sure that products at the world’s largest aerospace company continue to meet the highest standards. From quality and reliability, to safety and performance, their expertise is vital to the concept, design and certifications of a wide variety of commercial and military systems.

Position Responsibilities:

Cloud Engineering & Platform Enablement

• Design, deploy, and operate systems across Azure and AWS, including hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.

• Evaluate and select cloud services based on cost, usability, scalability, and long‑term maintainability.

• Implement infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, or Bicep to enable repeatable, secure deployments.

• Support containerized and cloud‑native architectures (e.g., AKS, EKS, ECS).

• Data‑Enabled Engineering

• Design and optimize relational database schemas and data models supporting both transactional and analytical workloads.

• Build and integrate data services and pipelines that enable engineers to discover, explore, and reuse test data efficiently.

• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to support analytics, visualization, and ML workflows without exposing unnecessary infrastructure complexity.

• DevOps, Reliability & Security

• Build CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps automation to enable rapid, reliable, and secure delivery.

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to ensure system availability, performance, and resilience.

• Build and maintain observability capabilities—including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing—to enable rapid diagnosis, performance optimization, and operational insight.

• Contribute to runbooks, incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement activities.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet Boeing security, data governance, and regulatory requirements (e.g., ITAR, EAR, DFARS).

• Produce clear technical documentation and operational artifacts.

• Present technical concepts, findings, and recommendations to engineers, stakeholders, and leadership as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

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Bachelor degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement.

• Experience in full-stack application development or equivalent systems-software integration roles.

• Strong systems thinking skills with experience designing end-to-end software and system solutions.

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, or Go).

• Experience deploying and operating applications in Azure and/or AWS environments.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep).

• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), including schema design and performance considerations.

• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, Docker, and Linux.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing developer platforms or internal engineering tools.

• Experience with Kubernetes, serverless, or event driven architectures.

• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Azure Monitor).

• Experience with SRE concepts (SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, incident postmortems).

• Cloud certifications (AWS and/or Azure).

• Experience working in regulated, safety critical, or aerospace environments.

• Familiarity with system architecture frameworks (SysML, DoDAF, UAF).

• Experience building operator or human machine interfaces.

Typical Education & Experience:

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 12 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master+ 11 years' related work experience.)

Relocation:

• This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility within India.

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Not a Shift Worker (India)