Azure Data Engineer – Fintech Domain

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 4–8 years

Company: KPMG

Employment Type: Full-Time

Notice Period : 30 Days

💼 Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Data Engineer to join our Fintech team. The ideal candidate will have experience designing and implementing cloud-based data pipelines and architectures using Microsoft Azure services, with a strong focus on financial services data such as transaction records, customer analytics, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines using Azure services.
• Work closely with business stakeholders and data scientists to deliver robust, secure, and high-performance data solutions in a Fintech context.
• Implement ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, and Databricks.
• Handle streaming data using Azure Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, and Kafka (if applicable).
• Optimize and manage data lakes, SQL-based warehouses, and NoSQL storage (e.g., Cosmos DB).
• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and security using tools like Azure Purview, Data Catalog, and Key Vault.
• Implement and monitor CI/CD pipelines for data workloads using Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, and business teams to translate business requirements into data models and workflows.

📌 Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering roles, with at least 3 years on Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Databricks, and Azure Functions.
• Proficiency in SQL, PySpark, and/or Python for data transformation and analysis.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance practices.
• Exposure to Fintech use cases like credit scoring, anti-money laundering (AML), fraud analytics, or transaction monitoring is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS, GDPR, or SOC 2 is a plus.