Cornerstone OnDemand logo

Cornerstone OnDemand

Senior Data Engineer

🇮🇳 Hyderabad, Telangana 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Data Science 🗓️ September 16th, 2026
Data Science ETL

Edtech.com's Summary

Cornerstone OnDemand is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines that support Finance, Human Resources, and Customer Success stakeholders. The role automates data ingestion and ETL workflows, prepares data warehouse datasets for both technical and non-technical audiences, and partners with data scientists to deploy machine learning models into production.

Highlights
  • Design and maintain production batch and real-time data pipelines.
  • Build and optimize data infrastructure for extraction, transformation, and loading across varied sources.
  • Automate data ingestion, aggregation, and ETL processing workflows.
  • Prepare Data Warehouse datasets consumable by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Partner with data scientists and sales, marketing, and product leaders to deploy machine learning models in production.
  • Build and deploy data products for analytics and data science teams on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Monitor data systems performance and apply optimization strategies.
  • Use dbt, Snowflake, Airflow, and Fivetran, with advanced SQL and object-oriented languages like Python, Java, C++, or Scala.
  • Hold domain knowledge in Finance, Human Resources, and Customer Success data.
  • Work on-site at the Hyderabad, India office.

Senior Data Engineer Full Description

Senior Data Engineer
Hyderabad, India | req11041
This role is Office Based, Hyderabad Office

We are seeking a talented Senior Data Engineer in India. The right candidate has strong communication skills, passion for solving business problems with data and has domain knowledge in Finance, Human Resources, and Customer Success. You have empathy, curiosity and desire to improve and constantly learn. Should be hands-on with dbt, Snowflake, Airflow, Fivetran, and has a proven track record of driving the best practices and processes, building data models and ETL loads.

In this role you will…
  • Design, build and maintain batch or real-time data pipelines in production.
  • Maintain and optimize the data infrastructure required for accurate extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources.
  • Develop ETL (extract, transform, load) processes to help extract and manipulate data from multiple sources.
  • Automate data workflows such as data ingestion, aggregation, and ETL processing.
  • Prepare raw data in Data Warehouses into a consumable dataset for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Partner with data scientists and functional leaders in sales, marketing, and product to deploy machine learning models in production.
  • Build, maintain, and deploy data products for analytics and data science teams on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Ensure data accuracy, integrity, privacy, security, and compliance through quality control procedures.
  • Monitor data systems performance and implement optimization strategies.
  • Leverage data controls to maintain data privacy, security, compliance, and quality for allocated areas of ownership.

You have what it takes if you have…
  • Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases and database design.
  • Experience working with cloud Data Warehouse solutions – Databricks, Apache Spark
  • Experience working with data ingestion tools such as Fivetran, stitch, or Matillion.
  • Working knowledge of Cloud-based solutions (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience building and deploying machine learning models in production.
  • Strong proficiency in object-oriented languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala.
  • Strong proficiency in scripting languages like Bash.
  • Strong proficiency in data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g., Airflow).
  • Strong project management and organizational skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
  • Proven ability to work independently and with a team.

Extra dose of awesome if you have…
  • Good understanding of NoSQL databases like CrateDB, Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB, or Neo4j.
  • Experience with working on large data sets and distributed computing (e.g. Hive/Hadoop/Spark/Presto/MapReduce).
#LI-Onsite

Our Culture:
Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.

Who We Are:
Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.

Check us out on LinkedIn, Comparably, Glassdoor, and Facebook!

Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. We are proud to be an EOE Protected Veterans/Disability workplace and an affirmative action employer. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].