Associate Director, Data Engineering

Overview

Associate Director, Data Engineering is a senior role combining product ownership, data platform management, and people leadership for a Databricks-oriented practice.

What you'll do

• Own the quarterly roadmap and backlog for one or more data engineering delivery teams.
• Define and implement the data KPI and metrics framework for the organization.
• Own data products built on the Databricks lakehouse.
• Accelerate data onboarding and access to trusted, governed availability in days, not months.
• Enable AI adoption across data teams beyond your own delivery pods.
• Manage the health, cost, reliability targets, and lifecycle of the underlying data platform.
• Directly manage a team of data engineers and/or product owners, including hiring and performance appraisals.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of relevant data/software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of people-leadership experience with a track record of product ownership.
• Deep, current hands-on data engineering capability to build, review, and troubleshoot pipelines and platform components.
• Platform management experience including reliability/SLA ownership and capacity/cost management.
• Product-management skills such as prioritization frameworks, stakeholder discovery, and adoption/outcome metrics.
• Strong working knowledge of data pipelines, data modeling, and cloud data platforms (AWS).
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL; Agile/Kanban with Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow (SNOW).

Details

• Location: India, Bengaluru.