Senior Data Engineer

Sonata Software Overview

In today’s market, there is a unique duality in technology adoption. On one side, extreme focus on cost containment by clients, and on the other, deep motivation to modernize their Digital storefronts to attract more consumers and B2B customers.

As a leading Modernization Engineering company, we aim to deliver modernization-driven hypergrowth for our clients based on the deep differentiation we have created in Modernization Engineering, powered by our Lightening suite and 16-step Platformation™ playbook. In addition, we bring agility and systems thinking to accelerate time to market for our clients.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata has a strong global presence, including key regions in the US, UK, Europe, APAC, and ANZ. We are a trusted partner of world-leading companies in BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance), HLS (Healthcare and Lifesciences), TMT (Telecom, Media, and Technology), Retail & CPG, and Manufacturing space. Our bouquet of Modernization Engineering Services cuts across Cloud, Data, Dynamics, Contact Centres, and around newer technologies like Generative AI, MS Fabric, and other modernization platforms.

We are seeking a Data Catalog & Governance Specialist to support our Send Money / Payments platform
, ensuring robust metadata management, data lineage visibility, and regulatory-grade governance across transactional and customer data domains.

This role is critical in establishing transparency and trust across payment flows, customer onboarding data, compliance datasets (KYC/AML), and reporting pipelines.

• Configure and administer enterprise data catalog platforms to support payment and transaction data domains
• Define and manage business and technical metadata for:
• Transaction data
• Customer/KYC data
• Beneficiary and wallet data
• Payment status and settlement data
• Establish and maintain end-to-end data lineage across:
• Send Money application
• Middleware/API layers
• Data warehouse and reporting systems
• Partner with data engineering teams to monitor and document ETL/ELT pipelines supporting payment processing
• Perform and document data quality assessments for critical financial datasets
• Define and enforce data governance policies
  , including:
• Data classification (PII, financial data, sensitive fields)
• Access control and role-based permissions
• Retention and audit requirements
• Support regulatory and compliance needs (AML, audit trails, transaction monitoring)
• Drive enterprise-wide adoption of the data catalog across business, risk, compliance, and engineering teams
• Lead metadata onboarding workshops and training sessions

• Hands-on experience with data catalog and metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Microsoft Purview, Atlan, etc.)
• Strong understanding of:
• Data modeling (transactional and analytical models)
• Data lineage and impact analysis
• Data quality frameworks and monitoring
• ETL/ELT processes in financial systems
• Experience working with transaction-heavy systems or payment platforms;
  Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python scripting
• Understanding of data privacy and financial regulatory controls
• Experience supporting audit and compliance reporting

• Experience in Fin Tech, Digital Banking, or Payments domain
• Exposure to Send Money / Remittance / Wallet-based applications
• Familiarity with KYC, AML, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring data flows
• Experience working with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure, AWS, etc.)

• Strong stakeholder communication across product, risk, compliance, and engineering
• Ability to translate technical metadata into business-understandable definitions
• Strong organizational and documentation discipline
• Experience driving data governance adoption initiatives
• Ability to operate in a regulated, high-availability environment

At Sonata, you?ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what?s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You?ll be challenged, but you will not be alone. You?ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

• Sonata Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by law.