Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer 

Are you our “TYPE”? 

Monotype (Global) 

Named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design" by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day. 

The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more. 

Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. 

Monotype Solutions India 

Monotype Solutions India is a strategic center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work® three years in a row. The focus of this fast-growing center spans Product Development, Product Management, Experience Design, User Research, Market Intelligence, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Innovation, Customer Success, Enterprise Business Solutions, and Sales. 

Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and with offices across 4 continents, Monotype is the world’s leading company in fonts. It’s a trusted partner to the world’s top brands and was named “One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design” by Fast Company. 

Monotype brings brands to life through the type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman, and more. Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. 

We are looking for problem solvers to help us build next-generation features, products, and services. You will work closely with a cross-functional team of engineers on microservices and event-driven architectures. You are expected to contribute to the architecture, design, and development of new features, identify technical risks and find alternate solutions to various problems. In addition, the role also demands to lead, motivate & mentor other team members with respect to technical challenges. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• Design and implement conceptual, logical, and physical data models aligned with business and product requirements. 

• Define database schemas, relationships, and standards across systems (transactional & analytical). 

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams to ensure data architecture aligns with system design and business goals. 

• Drive data normalization, entity definition, and integrity standards. 

• Evaluate and recommend database technologies (SQL/NoSQL, cloud DBs, etc.). 

• Create and maintain data dictionaries, ER diagrams, and comprehensive documentation. 

• Ensure performance optimization and scalability of data structures. 

• Participate in code and schema reviews to ensure model consistency and quality. 

• Define data governance practices and policies to ensure data quality, consistency, security, and compliance. 

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring in database architecture, modeling techniques, and data integration methods. 

• Stay current with industry trends, recommending innovative solutions to enhance data architecture effectiveness. 

What we’re looking for: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. 

• Minimum 10-14 years of professional experience, with at least 5 years specifically in data architecture. 

• Proven experience designing and implementing data models, including ER diagrams, dimensional modeling, and normalization techniques. 

• Strong expertise in relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra). 

• Proficiency with data modeling tools such as ERwin, PowerDesigner, or similar tools. 

• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP). 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide creative and innovative solutions. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. 

You will have an opportunity to: 

✔ COLLABORATE with global teams to build scalable web-based applications. 

✔ PARTNER closely with the engineering team to follow best practices and standards. 

✔ PROVIDE reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem-solving techniques. 

✔ WORK with the broader team to build and maintain high performance, flexible, and highly scalable web-based applications. 

✔ ACHIEVE engineering excellence by implementing standard practices and standards. 

✔ PERFORM technical root causes analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems. 

Monotype is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.