Overview
Lead a team of data engineers within the Enterprise Data Platform team at PitchBook, owning data pipelines, large-scale data models, and the quality, availability and performance of enterprise data assets, while also shaping an analytics environment built for both people and AI agents.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, retain and develop a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability and continuous improvement
- Define and drive the data engineering roadmap aligned with enterprise data strategy and business objectives
- Collaborate with senior technology and business leaders to define data platform priorities, architecture and long-term vision
- Promote a culture of innovation, operational rigor and customer empathy within the data organization
- Oversee the design, development and maintenance of high-quality data pipelines and ELT/ETL workflows across enterprise systems and PitchBook's platform
- Ensure scalable, secure and reliable data architectures using modern cloud technologies (e.g., Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, Docker)
- Lead AI learning initiatives and integrate AI/ML-driven solutions into data products to enhance automation, predictive insights and decision intelligence
- Champion data quality, governance, lineage and compliance standards across the enterprise data ecosystem
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimize data storage, compute performance and cost efficiency
- Support career development through mentoring, skill-building and performance feedback
- Build an analytics environment for AI agents as well as people, including semantic layers, governed metrics, rich metadata, agent-safe access and evaluation of agent output
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles, including at least 2–3 years of leadership experience managing technical teams
- Proven experience designing and maintaining large-scale data architectures, pipelines and data models in cloud environments (e.g., Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation, transformation and automation
- Deep understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks, data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) and distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka)
- Strong knowledge of data governance, quality and compliance frameworks
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex data concepts into business value
- Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and lead through change
Nice to have
- Experience working with enterprise data sources (CRM, ERP, Marketing Automation, Financial Systems, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, model deployment or data-driven automation
Details
- Location: Mumbai, India
- Hybrid work model: four days in-office each week in most locations
- Standard office working conditions; limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or business meetings and events
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