Lead Data Engineer

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Date Posted: 14-Jul-2026
Job Type: Full Time
Job Exp: 1 Year
Salary: ₹15000 / MONTH
Location: gurugram
Education Req: Bachelor's (Preferred)

Job description

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Job type

Full-time

Location

Gurugram, Haryana

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Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

Description

United's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Our Values: At United Airlines, we believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. Our Shared Purpose: "Connecting people. Uniting the world." drives us to be the best airline for our employees, customers, and everyone we serve, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. Our team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation.

With multiple employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities and world-class benefits like health insurance, parental leave, and space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work that will make you feel welcome and accepted. Come join our team and help us make a positive impact on the world.

Job overview and responsibilities

The United Data Engineering team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions that are brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics and digital solutions. The Data Engineering team is building a modern data technology platform in the cloud with advanced DevOps and Machine Learning capabilities.
The Data Engineering team at United Airlines is on a transformational journey to unlock the full potential of enterprise data, build a
dynamic, diverse and inclusive culture and develop a modern cloud-based data lake architecture to scale our applications, and drive growth
using data and machine learning. Our objective is to enable the enterprise to unleash the potential of data through innovation and agile
thinking, and to execute on an effective data strategy to transform business processes, rapidly accelerate time to market and enable
insightful decision making. United Airlines is seeking talented people to join the Data Engineering team. Data Engineering organization is
responsible for driving data driven insights & innovation to support the data needs for commercial and operational projects with a digital
focus.

Partner with various teams to define and execute data acquisition, transformation, processing and make data actionable for operational and analytics initiatives that create sustainable revenue and share growth

Design, develop, and implement streaming and near-real time data pipelines that feed systems that are the operational backbone of our business

Utilize programming languages like Java, Scala, Python with RDBMS, NoSQL databases and Cloud based data warehousing like AWS Redshift

Execute unit tests and validating expected results to ensure accuracy & integrity of data and applications through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution

Drive the adoption of data processing and analysis using AWS services and help cross train other members of the team

Leverage strategic and analytical skills to understand and solve customer and business centric questions

Coordinate and guide cross-functional projects that involve team members across all areas of the enterprise, vendors, external agencies and partners

Leverage data from a variety of sources to develop data marts and insights that provide a comprehensive understanding of the business

Develop and implement innovative solutions leading to automation

Mentor and train junior engineers

Use of Agile methodologies to manage projects

Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies

Expand and share your passion by staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, and mentoring other members of the engineering community

Work with a team of developers with deep experience in Digital technology, machine learning, distributed micro services, and full stack systems

This position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded. This position is for United Airlines Business Services Pvt. Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of United Airlines Inc.

Qualifications - External

Required

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related STEM field

Experience with relational database systems like MS SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata

Excellent O/S knowledge and experience in Linux or Windows with basic knowledge of the other

MCSE/RHCE or equivalent level of knowledge preferred

Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloud front, Elastic cache, WAF etc.)