Senior Data Engineer

Position

Cloud Data Engineer – Connected Cars & Vehicle Data Platforms

Function / Department: Connected Cars | Vehicle Data Platforms & Cloud Engineering

Location: Bengaluru

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 4+ Years

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical discipline

About MBRDI

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI), headquartered in Bengaluru with a satellite office in Pune, is the largest R&D center of Mercedes-Benz Group AG outside Germany. The Connected Cars and Vehicle Data Platforms organization builds large-scale, cloud-native data ecosystems that power vehicle connectivity, telemetry processing, digital services, analytics, and data-driven decision making across the Mercedes-Benz global landscape.

Role Overview

As a Cloud Data Senior Engineer in the Connected Cars domain, you will design, build, and operate high-volume, cloud-based vehicle data platforms. You will take technical ownership of core data platform components supporting ingestion, processing, governance, and consumption of connected vehicle telemetry, diagnostics, usage patterns, and service data. You will collaborate with global engineering, product, and business teams and mentor engineers while driving data engineering and platform delivery best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-volume data ingestion frameworks and ETL pipelines for connected vehicle and platform data.
• Build and maintain cloud-native big data pipelines supporting batch and real-time vehicle data streams.
• Define data governance, security standards, and architectural models aligned to vehicle data and platform requirements.
• Participate in architecture, design, and whiteboard sessions with data engineers, architects, operations, and application teams.
• Ensure data quality, validation, and control mechanisms across vehicle data inflows and downstream consumers.
• Manage tools across the vehicle data warehouse and analytics ecosystem, including ETL, data quality, reporting, OLAP, and data mining tools.
• Contribute to vehicle data platform strategy, including cloud architectures, security models, data marts, and data models.
• Evaluate infrastructure components, cloud services, performance characteristics, and platform scalability.
• Research emerging connected vehicle, cloud data, and analytics technologies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring while ensuring delivery excellence.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with cloud data lake technologies and distributed or NoSQL data architectures.
• Experience designing architectures for large-scale, real-time data streams such as telemetry, events, and signals.
• Hands-on experience with big data technologies on Azure or AWS.
• Experience scaling and optimizing cloud-native, vendor, and open-source data platforms.
• Strong understanding of fault-tolerant architectures and high-availability systems.
• Experience working in Agile data and platform engineering environments.
• Demonstrated success delivering cloud data warehouse and analytics platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to support critical data platforms when required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with vehicle data, IoT platforms, or connected systems.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and streaming technologies.
• Experience defining and implementing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Mentoring and technical leadership experience.

Why Join Us?

• Work on connected cars and vehicle data platforms used globally across Mercedes-Benz.
• Help enable software-defined vehicles and next-generation cloud data architectures.
• Influence data platforms at enterprise scale.
• Collaborate with highly skilled global teams in an innovation-driven environment.

Benefits

• Hybrid work possible
• Employee discounts
• Possible health benefits
• Mobile phone and meal discounts
• Company retirement benefits
• Mobility offers, events, coaching, and flextime
• Parking, in-house doctor, public transport, barrier-free workplace, near-site childcare, and canteen or café

Contact

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Private Limited
Brigade Tech Gardens, Katha No. 119560037
Bengaluru

Contact: Jacob Cyril
Email: jacob.cyril@mercedes-benz.com