Data Engineer

Konovois a global healthcare intelligence company on a mission to transform research through technology- enabling faster better connected insights.

Konovoprovides healthcareorganisationswith access to over 2 million healthcare professionalsthe largest network of its kind globally. With a workforce of over 200 employees across 5 countries: India Bosnia and Herzegovina the United Kingdom Mexico and the United States we collaborate to support some of the most prominent names in healthcare. Our customers include over 300 global pharmaceutical companies medical device manufacturers research agencies and consultancy firms.

As we transition from a service-oriented model to a product-driven platform we are expanding our hybrid Bengaluru team. We are looking for an experienced dataengineerto contribute to our mission bydeep-divinginto business problems building out our datalakehouseand contributing to our advanced aKonovoengineer you will unlock the power of our datalearn a breadth of technologies and aspects ofdata engineering helpusoptimizeand solve some of our greatest challenges!

How Youll Make an Impact

• Build and own production-grade batch ELT pipelines in Databricks/Spark (15-minute cadence during working hours; hourly off-hours)

• Design scale andoperateourlakehouseusing medallion patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold) including incremental loads backfills and late-arriving data handling

• Create curated well-documented data products that are reusable across teams and trusted for decision-making

• Improve reliability through automated testing monitoring/alerting and clear SLAs for critical pipelines and tables

• Partner with engineering and business stakeholders to translate needs into durable data models (not one-off extracts)

• Ensure data governance and security expectations are met through disciplined implementation (access controls lineage and quality standards)

What Were Looking For

• 5 years building and operating production data pipelines (data engineeringnot primarily BI/analytics or data science)

• Strong SQL plus strong data modeling skills (dimensional and/orlakehousemodeling)

• Hands-on Databricks Spark experience in production (debugging performance tuning cost awareness)

• Experience building batch ELT at frequent cadence (e.g. 15-minute schedules) including idempotency backfills and late-arriving data patterns

• Experience with orchestration and transformation tooling (e.g. Airflow dbt) and modern development practices (version control CI/CD)

• Strong data quality discipline: automated tests/expectations monitoring/alerting and clear SLAs for critical datasets

• Ownership mindset: you build it you run it (triage incident response continuous improvement)
• Clear written and verbal communication for engineering work (requirements clarification design docs tradeoffs)
• Comfortable working hybrid in Bengaluru (Whitefield) and overlapping 34 hours with EST

Bonus Points:

• Deep Delta Lake experience (schema evolution OPTIMIZE/Z-ORDER compaction partitioning strategy)

• CDC ingestion patterns ( or custom CDC) and handling late/out-of-order events

• Streaming or near-real-time pipelines (Structured Streaming Kafka Auto Loader) even if the core role is batch

• Strong observability practices for data systems (metrics lineage data contracts incident postmortems)

• Cost and performance optimization in Databricks (cluster sizing job tuning Photon caching strategies)

• Experience building governed data products for multi-tenant consumption (RBAC PII handling auditability)

• Exposure to healthcare life sciences or market research data and related compliance considerations

Why JoinKonovo

• Be part of a mission-driven organization that is shaping the future of healthcare decision-making.

• Join a fast-growing global team with opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

• Enjoy a collaborative and hybrid work environment that fosters innovation and flexibility.

• Experience a workplace that puts employees first offering a workplace designed for growth well-being and balance.

• Become a part of an organization that prioritizes your well-being with comprehensive benefits including group medical coverage accident insurance and a robust leave policy.

• Make a real-world impact by helping healthcare organizations innovate faster.

Ifyoureeager to build a meaningful career in healthcare market research andyouresmart nice and driven to make an impact wedlove to hear from you!

Apply now to be part of our journey.