Job Description

Overview:
Job Title: Principal Engineer - Cloud Transformation (Data Modeling Platform)
Location: Hyderabad
Department: Engineering / Product Development
Type: Full-Time
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the modernization of our flagship data modeling desktop product into a scalable, cloud-native SaaS platform. This role combines deep technical expertise, architecture leadership, and domain knowledge in data modeling, databases, and platform scalability.
You'll play a pivotal role in re-architecting a monolithic, stateful desktop application into a distributed cloud solution while ensuring high performance, security, and data integrity. If you thrive on complex technical challenges and enjoy owning large-scale platform evolution, this is the role for you. Responsibilities:

• Architect and drive the cloud transformation of a legacy desktop-based data modeling product into a multi-tenant, cloud-native application.

• Define the modern architecture including microservices, APIs, cloud storage strategies, and user/data management.

• Lead the design and integration of collaborative, browser-based modeling features, version control, and real-time updates.

• Create migration strategies for data-intensive features, schema management, model validation, and history tracking.

• Collaborate with Product, UX, DevOps, and QA to ensure platform scalability, resilience, and extensibility.

• Provide technical leadership across teams, including mentoring engineers and establishing best practices for data platform engineering.

• Champion CI/CD, DevSecOps, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) in a cloud environment (AWS/Azure/GCP).

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and privacy regulations.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years leading cloud transformation or re-platforming initiatives.

• Deep expertise in modernizing data-centric desktop applications (.NET, Java, C++ or similar) to web/cloud platforms.

• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts, ER modeling, schema design tools, and versioning mechanisms.

• Proficiency in cloud-native architecture: microservices, serverless, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud databases.

• Experience with real-time collaboration, diagramming tools, or similar interactive data tools.

• Solid experience in API-first design (REST/GraphQL), scalable backend frameworks, and asynchronous processing.

• Strong grasp of cloud platform services (AWS preferred), IaC tools (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to lead by example in hands-on coding and system design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with graph-based data models, domain-specific languages (DSLs), or meta-modeling.

• Experience with web-based modeling tools (e.g., draw.io, Lucidchart, GenMyModel) or UML/BPMN-based platforms.

• Previous involvement in SaaS enablement of complex on-prem enterprise tools.

• Exposure to data governance, auditability, and enterprise access control frameworks.

What You'll Gain

• Ownership of a critical product modernization initiative.

• A leadership role in reshaping a core enterprise product into a next-gen SaaS offering.

• Opportunity to innovate in the data modeling and metadata management domain.

• Competitive compensation, equity, and professional development support.

Company Description
At Quest, we create and manage the software that makes the benefits of new technology real. Companies turn to us to manage, modernize and secure their business, from on-prem to in-cloud, from the heart of the network to the vulnerable endpoints. From complex challenges like Active Directory management and Office 365 migration, to database and systems management, to redefining security, and hundreds of needs in between, we help you conquer your next challenge now.
We're not the company that makes big promises. We're the company that fulfills them.
We're Quest: Where Next Meets Now.
Why work with us!
-Life at Quest means collaborating with dedicated professionals with a passion for technology.
-When we see something that could be improved, we get to work inventing the solution.
-Our people demonstrate our winning culture through positive and meaningful relationship.
-We invest in our people and offer a series of programs that enables them to pursue a career that fulfills their potential.
-Our team members' health and wellness is our priority as well as rewarding them for their hard work.
Quest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
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