Director, Data Engineering

Overview

Director of Data Engineering to lead the Marketing Technology Data Engineering team, setting technical direction for data platforms supporting marketing analytics, attribution, and activation.

What you'll do

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Design and optimize data models across warehouse and lakehouse environments.
• Partner with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver data products.
• Establish engineering best practices, code review standards, and documentation norms.
• Evaluate and champion new data technologies and frameworks.
• Directly manage 3+ senior data engineers and support their career development.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of data engineering experience, including significant time in cloud data warehouse/lakehouse architecture.
• 6+ years of people management experience, ideally managing senior/staff-level engineers.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Strong grasp of dimensional modeling and warehouse design.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and lakehouse table formats (e.g., Iceberg).
• Pipeline orchestration experience with Airflow, dbt, or similar tools.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Reporting into: Director, Marketing Technology and Engineering.