Data Engineer

Job description

At Franklin Templeton, we believe success is built through powerful partnerships. As a forward‑thinking asset manager, we build dynamic relationships with clients, understand their goals, and navigate complex markets together. We leverage cutting‑edge strategies and deep insights to unlock opportunities for long‑term wealth creation. Our talented, global teams bring expertise that is both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and supportive culture to our globally diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential, but also to contribute to our clients’ success.

About the Department Franklin Templeton’s Artificial Intelligence Platform and Artificial Intelligence Investment Group builds shared data, engineering, and AI capabilities across investment, distribution, and corporate functions. Small, multidisciplinary agile teams collaborate with investment professionals, product leaders, architects, engineers, and governance partners. The evidence-driven environment offers opportunities to build trusted data platforms, influence enterprise AI adoption, and deepen technical expertise.

How You Will Add Value?

Core Responsibilities

You will build reliable batch and streaming data pipelines. You will integrate structured, unstructured, internal, and vendor data. You will create scalable analytical and machine-learning data models. You will implement automated quality testing, reconciliation, and alerting. You will maintain traceable data lineage, catalogues, and documentation. Strategic Responsibilities You will optimize pipeline reliability, performance, and operating costs.

You will resolve failures and prevent recurring data issues. You will enforce privacy, retention, security, and access requirements. You will apply artificial intelligence to improve engineering processes. You will evaluate traditional and AI-assisted approaches using practical judgement. Team & Collaboration You will productionize feature pipelines with engineers and data scientists. You will support model training, inference, and retrieval workloads.

You will partner with architecture, governance, risk, and compliance teams. You will strengthen reusable frameworks, standards, and review practices. What Will Help You Be Successful in This Role? Experience, Education & Certifications Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent practical experience. Five or more years of production data engineering experience. Experience delivering scalable, governed data pipelines.

Technical Skills

Advanced Structured Query Language and strong Python skills. Distributed processing, orchestration, and Extract, Transform, Load frameworks. Relational, non-relational, vector, and unstructured data expertise. Data modelling, quality testing, reconciliation, and lineage. Cloud or hybrid data-platform experience. Performance tuning and cost-conscious platform design. Familiarity with feature stores and AI retrieval pipelines.

Soft Skills Strong analytical and problem-solving judgement. Clear communication with technical and business stakeholders. Effective collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. Work Shift Timings - 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM IST At Franklin Templeton, we believe your benefits should support your life, your goals, and your future. That’s why we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally.

Highlights of our benefits include: Professional development growth opportunities through in-house classes and over 150 Web-based training courses An educational assistance program to financially help employees seeking continuing education Medical, Life and Personal Accident Insurance benefit for employees. Medical insurance also cover employee’s dependents (spouses, children and dependent parents) Life insurance for protection of employees’ families Personal accident insurance for protection of employees and their families Personal loan assistance Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP) 12 weeks Paternity leave Onsite fitness center, recreation center, and cafeteria Transport facility Child day care facility for women employees Cricket grounds and gymnasium Library Health Center with doctor availability HDFC ATM on the campus Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.

Artificial intelligence or automated tools may be used to assist in the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants for this position.