Data Engineer

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: Mumbai Job Category: IT

Job Description Are you ready to grow your career in our global tech hub? Zurich Cover-More Group helps people travel safely across the globe every day. We are there at every step of a traveller’s journey, to keep them safe and help them out if something goes wrong. We are committed to providing reliable, fast, flexible and bespoke services for our customers as well as the many well-known brands we partner with, such as travel agencies, airlines, banks and major sporting clubs! In the post-pandemic world, travel insurance is more important than ever. We are committed to delivering an exceptional service for our customers and we want you to be part of that journey.

So, what’s the job?

• You'll design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes that support analytics, reporting, and machine learning workloads.
• You'll own the day-to-day reliability of data ingestion processes, proactively troubleshooting pipeline failures, performance bottlenecks, and data anomalies.
• You'll refactor and modernise existing ETL processes to improve efficiency, standardisation, and scalability.
• You'll reduce manual data movement through automation and the implementation of consistent engineering best practices.
• You'll support schema changes, incremental data loads, and the onboarding of new data sources and elements.
• You'll develop and optimise data models and data warehouse structures to ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• You'll assist with database performance tuning, indexing strategies, and schema management activities.
• You'll deliver well-structured, production-ready datasets that enable analytics and data science teams to generate meaningful insights.
• You'll collaborate with engineering and analytics teams across multiple geographies to integrate data from diverse sources while ensuring consistent data quality standards.
• You'll write and optimise SQL queries to validate data completeness, accuracy, and integrity.
• You'll reconcile ETL outputs against source system reports, identifying and resolving data quality issues where required.
• You'll manage API-based integrations, including handling pagination, rate limiting, and incremental data extraction processes.
• You'll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across time zones to understand business data requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• You'll actively participate in asynchronous workflows and virtual collaboration environments to maintain alignment across distributed teams.
• You'll communicate project progress, risks, blockers, and outcomes clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You'll implement monitoring, logging, and automation solutions to improve pipeline stability and minimise manual intervention.
• You'll create and maintain runbooks, ETL documentation, and process guides to support operational excellence and knowledge sharing.
• You'll follow and reinforce engineering standards covering naming conventions, development structures, and deployment practices.
• You'll support change management processes, version control, and controlled releases to ensure reliable and secure deployments.

And what are we looking for?

• You'll bring a Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• You'll have 2+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, ETL development, or a related technical role.
• You'll demonstrate experience working within offshore, distributed, or globally dispersed teams, with the ability to collaborate effectively across multiple time zones.
• You'll possess a solid understanding of ETL concepts, data integration principles, and data pipeline architecture.
• You'll have hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) or a comparable ETL and data orchestration platform.
• You'll be experienced in working with REST APIs, including interpreting documentation, handling JSON payloads, and managing authentication methods such as API keys, OAuth, and tokens.
• You'll have strong SQL and Python skills, including expertise in joins, aggregations, filtering, troubleshooting, and performance optimisation.
• You'll bring familiarity with cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks.
• You'll have experience using source code management and version control tools such as Git.
• You'll have knowledge of Vincilium or similar ETL tools.
• You'll bring exposure to Power BI datasets and backend reporting models that support business intelligence solutions.
• You'll have experience working with file-based integrations, including CSV, Excel, and SFTP-based data transfers.
• You'll demonstrate familiarity with insurance platforms and/or ERP and CRM systems.
• You'll be highly detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to data accuracy, quality, and reliability.
• You'll be a proactive and self-managing communicator who keeps remote stakeholders informed, engaged, and aligned.
• You'll be comfortable working independently across multiple time zones with minimal day-to-day supervision.
• You'll be collaborative and team-oriented, recognising that successful data engineering outcomes are achieved through strong cross-functional partnerships regardless of location.
• You'll be eager to learn, grow, and take on increasing levels of ownership as the platform and team continue to evolve.
• You'll have the opportunity to progress into more senior data engineering or platform architecture roles, taking greater ownership of ingestion architecture, driving standardisation across new data sources, and contributing to the growth and maturity of the wider data platform.

So, why choose us? We value optimism, caring, togetherness, reliability and determination. We have more than 2600 employees worldwide: we’re a global group of digital natives, actuaries, marketers, doctors, nurses, case managers, claims specialists, finance experts and customer service professionals. We share a global mission to look after travellers, at every step of their journey. Job flexibility. We understand the importance of making sure that work fits into your life, not the other way around. Our hybrid work week policy ensures our employees maintain work-life balance with the flexibility of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home. Career growth. We want you to continue to learn, develop and bring your ideas to the table. We want to hear what you think, and we want you to work with the business - not for the business! Diversity and inclusion. We respect who you are and thoroughly embrace diversity. So whatever walk of life you wander, just be you and come as you are. Take the time you need, for you and your community. We encourage you to take the time you need, when you need it. We offer regular annual and personal leave benefits along with anniversary leave, covid leave (to get vaccinated and for when you’re sick), volunteer leave and a comprehensive paid parental leave scheme.

We also offer some other perks including:

• Mediclaim insurance cover in case of any health emergency
• Coverage under group personal accident insurance
• Flexible and compressed work weeks and hybrid working options.
• Generous range of paid leave – 21 annual leave days, 6 sick leave days, 12 public holidays
• An extra day off for you to take on your birthday or your annual work anniversary. Apply today and let’s go great places together!