IT Deployment, Data Engineer - Chennai

It's more than a job In this IT role, you will manage, develop, and support the technology infrastructure that powers Kuehne+Nagel’s global systems and operations. This contribution is vital to making both special and ordinary moments in the lives of people a reality. In fact, your work enables our teams to deliver fresh fruit, time-sensitive healthcare products and much more to people all around the world. Working in IT at Kuehne+Nagel contributes to more than we imagine. ‎ As a data engineer within our Contract Logistics Global Reporting team, you will implement and evolve modern data archietcture and pipelines that provide the source-of-truth data regarding shipments across the company. Working within an established BI landscape and driving the evolution towards a cloud-native stack centred on Dagster, dbt, Snowflake, and AWS, you will ensure that data flows reliably from diverse source systems into curated data products, fitting the needs of a data-driven logistics enterprise. You will ensure cloud-based infrastructure is utilised as efficiently as possible across data science products and projects, enabling downstream BI consumers and analysts to make timely, data-driven decisions.

How you create impact

• Implement and model analytical output ports for our data products, ensuring they are discoverable and consumable across domains
• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines using Dagster as the primary orchestration framework, progressively modernising existing ETL workflows
• Build and manage data transformation layers using dbt, ensuring well-tested, documented, and version-controlled models
• Ensure proper operation and evolution of data models and resulting data sets, maintaining them as the source of truth for shipment data
• Architect and optimise Snowflake data warehouse structures including schemas, tables, views, and materialisation strategies
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure components supporting the data platform (S3, Lambda, IAM, EC2, etc.)
• Build and operate data-centric infrastructure in collaboration with DevOps specialists
• Integrate data from a variety of source systems including logistics and supply chain platforms (e.g. TMS, WMS, ERP) as well as Oracle and PostgreSQL databases
• Provide an analytics and data quality focused perspective to existing shipping data products
• Evaluate new tools and technologies to enhance the data platform landscape
• Work alongside the existing BI development team to understand current ETL processes and data models, ensuring continuity during platform modernisation
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting across pipeline stages
• Collaborate with reporting analysts and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver appropriate models
• Maintain CI/CD workflows for data pipeline code and infrastructure-as-code deployments, complementing existing Jenkins-based automation where appropriate
• Contribute to data governance practices including cataloguing, lineage tracking, and documentation
• Support and troubleshoot production data issues, performing root cause analysis and remediation

What we would like you to bring

• 2–5 years of experience in Data Engineering or a similar role.
• Strong experience with Snowflake, SQL, Python, dbt, and AWS.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling and data warehouse design.
• Experience developing and supporting data products for analytics and reporting.
• Expertise in Snowflake architecture, performance optimization, and RBAC.
• Experience integrating data from WMS, ERP, TMS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar systems.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, data quality, and monitoring frameworks.
• Logistics, Supply Chain, or Blue Yonder WMS experience is preferred.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

What's in it for you

• Work with a Global Leader – Join one of the world’s top logistics companies with a strong international presence and reputation.
• Career Development – Access structured growth opportunities, professional training, and internal mobility within a global organization.
• Attractive Compensation – Competitive salary with performance-based incentives and benefits.
• Collaborative Work Culture – Be part of a supportive, ethical, and compliance-driven team environment.
• Local Role, Global Impact – Influence regional business growth while working with global tools, systems, and best practices.

Who we are Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world. As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine. We kindly advise that placement agencies refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles. Any submissions of candidates without prior signed agreement will be considered our property and no fees will be paid.