--- title: 'Data Engineer III at PDI Technologies' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/data-engineer-iii-pdi-technologies-chennai-04nw482v1ywm' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-10' --- # Data Engineer III at PDI Technologies - **Company:** PDI Technologies - **Location:** Chennai, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-11-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/pditechnologies/b4defc79-cdab-4117-adff-410fc4961811 ## Job description For nearly 40 years, PDI has helped convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers adapt to changes in the industry by leveraging the latest technologies. Simplifying the complexity in your world is our main focus. That's why we're delivering an integrated portfolio of global, cloud-based solutions and services to meet our customers needs today and well into the future. From the back office to fuel logistics, and the latest wave of consumer demands and digital commerce, PDI solutions and services are designed to give you a competitive edge. Our deep domain knowledge is backed by our industry-specific software offerings and a people-first approach. Serving the entire supply chain means that we’ve had to solve a wide range of industry challenges and deliver measurable value. To address the increasingly dynamic convenience retail and petroleum wholesale industry, PDI leads the way with converged digital, cloud-optimized, secure, and scalable solutions including ERP, Loyalty, Fuel Pricing, Point-of-Sale and Logistics to create a broader industry ecosystem. The result is unparalleled insights, simplified operations, and higher profitability for your employees and business. We’re dedicated to helping our more than 1,500 customers in over 50 countries, providing solutions and services to over 200,000 sites. The Opportunity: If you love to develop great quality software and are eager to learn new technologies and develop new skills, then we have a great opportunity for you: join our PDI family and work closely with other talented PDI engineers to deliver solutions that delight our customers every day! As a Data Engineer III, you will be part of an agile data services team responsible for developing and maintaining our industry-leading cloud-based big data and data analytics infrastructure serving major global fortune 500 companies. The candidate will help with design, development, unit testing, performance testing, deployment, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and support of our Job Responsibilities: - Utilize architectural and design skills for a variety of data-oriented tasks. - Establish and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders. - Build highly reliable & scalable data systems with good data governance that provide complete, secure, accurate and timely data for analytics. - Expertise in data & dimensional modeling with good business acumen in supporting new product features and services - including financial reporting. - Assist development and analytics organization to meet its delivery goals with regards to data design, flow and infrastructure. - Perform Data Modeling, Big data architecture design, support and implementation of OLTP, real time OLAP/data warehouse systems and ETL pipelines. - Track/Build & monitor data/system KPI’s like storage, performance & usage - Hands on administration of big data databases/compute engines (Redshift, EMR, Spark or similar) and optimization/tuning techniques - Prepare required documentation as outlined by departmental standards. - Identify, analyze and back track data problems as needed. - Provide recommendations for application and system improvements. - Mentor other team members - Work with business users to understand business requirements, issues and business and/or client processes. - Develop, test, and maintain high-performance of our data systems to meet the requirements of the business and/clients while adhering to departmental standards. - Perform quality assurance testing for all work performed. - Meet with agile teams as required to define and document application requirements. - Follow project development, deployment process & maintain industry standards and best coding practices. - Maintain security and organization of the company’s data. - Provide off-hour support as assigned. - Gather business requirements/features, estimate the tasks, design & develop scalable solutions. - Work with manager to ascertain the company’s data requirements. - Plan work to meet project deadlines, accommodate demands by development teams, set priorities and escalate issues appropriately. -  Provide recommendations to development teams for data restructuring and performing complex maintenance. - Deploy and manage changes in development, staging and production. - Assist development and dev ops teams on SQL queries and tuning. Required Skills & Experience: - At least 7 years’ experience in data engineering, Data modeling, SQL, ETL, Big database, Data warehousing & basic-level administration of data infrastructure - At least 7 years coding experience in Java, Python, R or other equivalent programming language - At least 4 years big data experience - At least 2 years’ experience as technical lead architecting data lake/data warehouse/lake house systems & mentoring team of Data Engineers / DBAs - Proficient in a variety of big-data tools and technologies, including Hadoop, Spark, etc., handling different storage formats like Parquet, Delta/Apache Hudi/Apache Iceberg, & managing/working with different OLTP systems & data ingestion mechanisms. - Experience building large scale data lakes & warehouse systems leveraging cloud environments including AWS technologies –S3, Redshift, Aurora/RDS, DMS, EC2, Glue spark, Cloud watch, & EMR - Experience with data orchestration tools like Airflow - Experience in building pipelines, ingesting data from heterogeneous systems onto data lake environments in real time - Proficient in Python, SQL and PL-SQL, query tuning, optimization, ETL, ELT, and Data Warehousing - Proficient in Business Intelligence (BI), analytic database and products, able to take business requirements and translate into database tables, pipeline design and tasks. - General data-specific concepts, frameworks and processes - Agile development practices - Working within an SDLC - Designing data warehouses including definition, structure, documentation, maintenance, long-range requirements, operational guidelines, and protection - Data governance, meta data management, data security measures, retention & archival across data lake layers Other Skills and Experience - Cloud experience, such as AWS, GCP or Azure - Building/Managing data lake & lake house architectures. - Experience working on different data lake storage formats. - Excellent oral and written communication - Multi-tasking and managing multiple priorities. - Working well in a team-oriented, collaborative environment with people from different disciplines and varying degrees of technical experience - Working in an Agile team environment. Behavioral Competencies: - Cultivates Innovation - Decision Quality - Manages Complexity - Drives Results - Business Insight PDI is committed to offering a well-rounded benefits program, designed to support and care for you, and your family throughout your life and career.  This includes a competitive salary, market-competitive benefits, and a quarterly perks program. We encourage a good work-life balance with ample time off [time away] and, where appropriate, hybrid working arrangements.  Employees have access to continuous learning, professional certifications, and leadership development opportunities. Our global culture fosters diversity, inclusion, and values authenticity, trust, curiosity, and diversity of thought, ensuring a supportive environment for all. ## About PDI Technologies ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: PDI Technologies provides enterprise software and payments solutions that power the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem globally. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Luminate Capital in 2015, with strategic investment from TA Associates) - **Headquarters**: Alpharetta, Georgia, United States - **Founded**: 1983 - **Founders**: Greg Gilkerson ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Convenience retail & petroleum wholesale software, payments, data analytics, and cybersecurity. - Target customers: B2B – fuel wholesalers, convenience store chains, and petroleum retailers of all sizes (SMB to enterprise). - Mission or purpose statement: “Connecting Convenience” – helping businesses modernize operations, converge systems, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. ## Products & Services - **PDI Enterprise (ERP)**: Comprehensive enterprise resource planning for convenience retail and petroleum wholesale, covering accounting, inventory, supply chain, and back-office operations. - **PDI Logistics**: Fuel supply chain management and distribution optimization. - **PDI Loyalty & Marketing Cloud**: Customer loyalty programs, coalition marketing, and real-time promotions. - **PDI Payments**: Secure payment processing solutions for in-store and fuel transactions. - **PDI Security & Cybersecurity**: Managed security services and data protection for retail networks. - **PDI Analytics Cloud**: Data and insight solutions for business intelligence and consumer behavior analysis. - **PDIQ (AI Platform)**: Embedded AI into trusted workflows to accelerate decision-making and innovation. - **Fuel Pricing Software**: Dynamic pricing and competitor analysis for fuel retailers. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $112 M (LinkedIn estimate) – or **Total Funding**: Not disclosed beyond early private equity rounds (Luminate Capital, TA Associates). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Luminate Capital (acquirer in 2015), TA Associates (growth investment in 2017). - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount: 1,419 employees (+1.0% YoY) per LinkedIn; another source (Built In) reports 1,905 total employees – conflicting reports. - Operates in 7 countries (including Austria, Thailand, Slovakia, New Zealand, United Kingdom) with workforce across 26 countries. - Serves over 200,000 convenience and petroleum wholesale sites in more than 60 countries. - Released 2024 ESG Report, highlighting sustainability commitments. ## Competitive Advantages - **40+ years of domain expertise** in the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale vertical. - **End-to-end ecosystem**: ERP, logistics, loyalty, payments, analytics, and cybersecurity – all integrated. - **Large, sticky customer base** with high switching costs due to deep operational integration. - **AI-first innovation** through the PDIQ platform, embedding intelligence into existing workflows. - **Global reach** with localized support across North America, EMEA, and APAC. ## Strategic Focus - **AI & Automation**: Expanding PDIQ to embed AI across all product lines to improve productivity and decision-making. - **Sustainability**: Helping customers meet environmental goals while advancing own ESG metrics. - **Cloud & SaaS Migration**: Continuing to shift legacy on-premise solutions to modern cloud/SaaS platforms. - **Global Expansion**: Growing presence in Europe, Asia, and other regions outside the core U.S. market. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven environment emphasizing integrity, curiosity, adaptability, courage, collaboration, and accountability. - **Work Model**: Hybrid and fully remote options available; Alpharetta HQ serves as a central hub. - **Benefits**: Competitive salary, health coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, quarterly perks, and flexible work arrangements. - **Growth**: Continuous learning opportunities, professional certifications, leadership development, and internal mobility. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering an inclusive culture. - **Engineering Culture**: Tech roles span application development, backend systems, data management, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure; coding challenges may be part of interviews. ## Sources 1. [LinkedIn – PDI Technologies](https://linkedin.com/company/pdi-technologies) 2. [PDI Technologies – Our Story](https://pditechnologies.com/our-story/) 3. [PDI Technologies – Careers](https://pditechnologies.com/careers/) 4. 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