Overview
Director of Data Engineering (Data Experience/DEx) leading Dentsu Global Services’ offshore data engineering capability in India. You will own the architecture, quality, and delivery of the Databricks-based data platform used across media and marketing effectiveness work.
What you'll do
- Lead the offshore (DGS) Data Engineering team and set architecture, delivery, and quality standards.
- Own Databricks Lakehouse end-to-end capabilities including ingestion, Medallion modeling, governance, and pipelines.
- Design and build scalable, governed pipelines to combine media and marketing data into analytics-ready datasets.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted data development tools to accelerate building, transformation, and debugging.
- Establish standards for taxonomies, schemas, data quality checks, and a single source of truth for core media data.
- Partner with visualization, data science, and ad ops teams to source, validate, and reconcile data discrepancies.
- Manage team capacity/utilization and coordinate staffing and delivery health with onshore leadership.
What you'll need
- 10+ years in data engineering.
- Deep, hands-on Databricks expertise including Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow/Delta Live Tables, Medallion architecture, and performance tuning.
- Expert-level SQL and strong Python for production data engineering pipelines at scale.
- Strong knowledge of data modeling, orchestration, data quality, and governance for reuse and maintainability.
- Demonstrated domain knowledge of media and/or marketing data (explicit hard requirement).
- Proven experience leading and developing an engineering team, ideally in an offshore/global delivery model.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with streaming/near-real-time ingestion patterns.
- Familiarity with ad ops/trafficking platforms such as CM360, Prisma, DV360, and TTD.
- Exposure to semantic/metrics layers and how engineering affects downstream reporting (Power BI, dbt metrics).
- Experience in an agency, ad tech, or marketing analytics environment.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, and DataOps practices for data pipelines.
Details
- Location: DGS India - Chennai - Anna Nagar Tyche Towers.
- Work location mode: Offshore (DGS, India).
- Employment type: Full time; Contract Type: Permanent.
