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Data Engineer

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

JobType

full-time

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About the role

Website: hotfoot.co.in
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About Us

Hotfoot is an Enterprise FinTech focused on end-to-end digital transformation and automation for financial institutions. Our platform digitizes and streamlines the full loan lifecycle – from onboarding and KYC to decision automation, document digitization, and disbursement. We combine strong domain expertise with AI/ML-driven innovation to deliver scalable and industry-ready lending solutions.

Website: https://hotfoot.co.in/


The Role:Data Engineer

Hands-On | Micro Data Lakes | Enterprise Data Strategy


Are you a hands-on Data Engineer who thrives on solving complex data problems across structured and unstructured sources? Do you enjoy designing micro data lakes and driving enterprise-wide data strategy? If so, we want to hear from you.


You will:

  • Design and build micro data lakes tailored to lending domain
  • Define and implement enterprise data strategies including modelling, lineage, and governance
  • Build robust data pipelines for batch and real-time data ingestion
  • Develop strategies for extracting, transforming, and storing data from APIs, PDFs, logs, databases, and more
  • Establish best practices for data quality, metadata management, and data lifecycle control
  • Hands-on in the implementation of processes, strategies and tools to create differentiated products.


MUST HAVE

  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to align data with business goals
  • Evaluate and integrate modern data platforms and tools such as Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, AWS, GCP, Azure


What We’re Looking For

Experience:

5+ years of experience in data engineering


Expertise:

  • Deep understanding of structured and unstructured data ecosystems
  • Hands-on experience with ETL, ELT, stream processing, querying and data modelling
  • Proficiency in tools and languages such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, SQL, Amundsen, Glue CatLog and Python
  • Expertise in cloud-native data platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Strong grounding in data governance, privacy, and compliance standards
  • A strategic mindset with the ability to execute hands-on when needed


Nice to Have

  • Exposure to the lending domain
  • Exposure to ML pipelines or AI integrations
  • Background in fintech, lending, or regulatory data environments


What We Offer

  • An opportunity to lead data-first transformation, create products that accelerate AI adoption
  • Autonomy to design, build, and scale modern data architecture
  • A forward-thinking, collaborative, and tech-driven culture
  • Access to the latest tools and technologies in the data ecosystem


Location: Chennai


Experience: 5-7 Years | Full-Time | Work From Office


  • For any queries, feel free to reach out at: deepa.thirunavukarasu@hotfoot.co.in
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Skills

Python
Airflow
AWS
Azure
compliance
data architecture
data ingestion
data strategy
Databricks
end-to-end
ETL
fintech
GCP
Kafka
metadata management
Snowflake
Spark
SQL