Nissan Motor Corporation

Senior Data Engineer

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Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

In-Office

Senior level

Automotive

The Role

The Senior Data Engineer ensures data integrity and governance, leads data modelling, oversees the DRM process, and collaborates with vendor teams for data quality and platform alignment.

Summary Generated by Built In

Nissan is a pioneer in Innovation and Technology. With a focus on Mobility, Operational Excellence, Value to our Customers and Electrification of vehicles, you can expect to be part of a very exciting journey here at Nissan.Nissan is going after a massive Digital Transformation backed by leading technologies across the organization globally. We are committed to building a diverse, entrepreneurial organization, and our current team is a strong evidence of that. Our people are what drive the business forward. At Nissan Digital, you will be part of a dynamic team with ample opportunities to grow and make a difference.Role OverviewThe role is responsible for ensuring the integrity, governance, and efficient operation of the enterprise data platform. This includes leading the Data Review Meeting (DRM) process, defining data modelling and cataloguing standards, and serving as a key subject matter expert across core platform technologies such as Snowflake, AWS, and Glue. The position provides strategic oversight for project data assessments, ensuring data quality and alignment with platform principles. It also involves close collaboration with vendor teams to guide work execution and drive initiatives in line with leadership priorities. Additionally, the role supports infrastructure provisioning to enable a scalable, reliable, and high-performing data platform.Key Responsibilities

Oversee and manage the Data Resource Management (DRM) process to ensure accuracy, consistency, and governance across the platform.
Lead data modelling and data cataloguing activities, establishing and maintaining standards and best practices.
Serve as a Subject Matter Expert for the Data Platform ecosystem, including Snowflake, AWS, Glue, and related technologies.
Conduct data assessments for projects, providing guidance on data quality, readiness, and platform alignment.
Collaborate closely with vendor teams, including setting work direction, guiding initiatives, and ensuring alignment with leadership priorities.
Contribute to infrastructure provisioning activities to support platform stability, scalability, and performance.

Skills and Qualifications:

Design logical and physical models across multiple Data Warehouses.
Organize working sessions with business operations team to understand sources of data and expected output.
Experienced in database technologies, data design and performance optimization for large OLAP & Data Warehouse solutions.
Working knowledge on ETL tools like Talend is preferred.
Experienced in building data Ingestion & data engineering work flows preferred
Experienced in driving data design and end to end processing
Expert in relational and dimensional structures for large (multi-terabyte) operational, analytical, warehouse and BI systems.
Skilled and understands data profiling, business domain modelling, logical data modelling, physical dimensional data modelling and design.
Experience with data modeling concepts (conceptual/logical/physical/semantic, multi-dimensional models(star, snowflake), normalized/denormalized models)
Experience with understanding data - profile and analysis (metadata(formats, definitions, valid values, boundaries), relationship/usage)
Experience with data mapping (ETL data mapping with defined technical and business rules. Complex logic, not only 1:1 data mapping)
Strong skills in Entity Relationship Modelling (ERWin modelling software preferred)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong relationship building skills.
Ability to work in a large, complex business and technical environment.
Experience with Automotive domain is preferable.
Experience with Erwin or similar data modelling tool, strong Snowflake/SQL expertise

Key Technology – AWS Data Services (e.g. Glue), Snowflake, AWS Cloud ServicesTrivandrum Kerala India

Top Skills

AWS

Erwin

Glue

Snowflake

SQL

Talend

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The Company

HQ: Yokohama, Kanagawa

160,000 Employees

Year Founded: 1933

What We Do

At Nissan Motor Corporation, we are transforming how people live and drive — and we need passionate innovators to help us create a more sustainable future. As a global automotive leader, we take pride in enriching the lives of our employees and believe your passion, talent, and dedication are essential to our success. That’s why we provide career growth opportunities to help you move ahead, internal mobility so you can explore other career paths, and a healthy work-life balance so you always feel your best. In the spirit of “doing what others don’t dare to do,” we value your knowledge and life experience. We work to ensure all employees have a voice and always feel comfortable using it.

Join us on our journey into a future of possibility, and experience a career as exhilarating as the open road.

Why Work With Us

Nissan is a global company driven by the accomplishments of our employees. We find pride in our continued commitment to diversity and an exciting lineup of vehicles. Simply put, we are at the intersection of people, transportation, and the environment which keeps us at the forefront of innovation.