Head of Data Engineering

HEAD OF DATA ENGINEERING [Hands-On Builder]
Experience: 7-10 Years MAX | Chennai - Hybrid
About Giggso:
Giggso is a Data & AI Engineering transformation company. We don't do body-shopping. We build modern data and AI foundations for serious companies.
We are looking for engineers who are at an inflection point in their career and want to 10x their growth.
What You Bring vs. What You Get:
You Bring: Rock-solid Data Engineering and Analytics skills with real AI engineering experience. You build, you don't delegate.
You Get: Powerful, career-defining growth and cool tech skills for life - including Ontology & Graph DB, Forward Deployed Engineer [FDE] skills, Headless Architecture Engineering, and production AI.
The Role:
This is a HANDS-ON Head role. You will own and build data projects end-to-end, coding yourself. You will work directly with Sr. Execs who are very proficient in Data Engineering and will groom you to be a world-class leader. You must know to architect and build scalable medallion architecture and etl-elt pipelines
High-energy and growth mindset is non-negotiable. Leader by Example , not a delegator.
Must-Have - Super Proficient:
- Data Core: Expert SQL / PL/SQL + Deep RDBMS Internal Architecture knowledge [Oracle or any RDBMS]. You understand execution plans, indexing, partitioning, storage engines.
- Modern Stack: Python [for Data + AI], Business Intelligence, Dialogflow CX / ES.
- AI & Next-Gen DB: Proven production experience with Vector Databases, Sparse Indexes, RAG pipelines, Embeddings.[pgvector][Oracle graph n autonomous][cosmos db etc]
- Cloud-Native: Hyperscaler experience is a must. Strong preference for OCI or GCP stack: BigQuery, BigTable, Firebase / Firestore.
Else Aws or Azure equivalent
Profile:
7-10 years max experience.
Young, hungry, hands-on builder.
Master's degree preferred.
Must hold a Professional-level Certification in Database / Cloud [e.g., GCP Professional Data Engineer, Oracle OCP].
We do not count Udemy / Associate / Foundational certs.
If this is you, apply.

Work arrangement
Hybrid