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[/company/prevalent-ai](/company/prevalent-ai)[Prevalent AI](/company/prevalent-ai)
# Lead Data Engineer at Prevalent AI

Department: EngineeringSeniority in posting: Experienced

**Setup**
: On-site

**Location**
: Ernakulam, Kerala

**Type**
: Contract

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Sep 16, 2026

## Description

Prevalent AI is hiring a Lead Data Engineer as a contractor to lead the design and delivery of client data engineering projects. The role focuses on building and optimizing large-scale distributed data pipelines, diagnosing performance and failure issues, establishing storage strategies, creating reusable configuration-driven components, reviewing code, mentoring developers, and contributing to platform and delivery work. Candidates must have at least 10 years of data engineering experience, including 5 years of hands-on PySpark work on large-volume workloads, along with expertise in Spark internals, time-series data, Delta Lake or Iceberg, Python, and self-managed Spark clusters.

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