Director of Engineering, Data Platforms

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use)

13 We are seeking a strong technical and people leader to join as  Director of Engineering, Data Platforms  for our offshore team in India. In this role, you will partner closely with the core Databricks team to support the transition of existing data pipelines to the target platform, while continuing to refine, enhance, and operationalize those pipelines for scale, quality, reliability, and secure cloud-native delivery on AWS. AWS data engineering practices commonly emphasize automated and orchestrated data flows, metadata-driven pipelines, and alignment to platform guardrails and security controls.

This leader will manage a small, focused engineering team responsible for supporting offshore platform adoption and enabling asset-agnostic data onboarding into the enterprise data platform. The role is execution-oriented and collaborative in nature, with accountability for high-quality delivery, engineering rigor, and consistent partnership with global stakeholders.

You will also support integrations with the enterprise data mastering platform to help ensure trusted, standardized, and reusable data flows across the ecosystem. Experience with  NeoXam DataHub  is a strong plus, particularly in environments where master, market, reference, risk, and investment data are managed across the full lifecycle—from acquisition through distribution—to create a trusted single source of truth.

This role is ideal for someone who combines hands-on data platform depth with practical team leadership, strong cross-geography collaboration, and experience establishing repeatable cloud data engineering patterns across modern lakehouse and mastering ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Data Pipeline Transition and Platform Delivery

• Partner with the core Databricks team to plan and execute the transition of existing data pipelines to the target data platform.

• Lead the offshore team in enhancing, stabilizing, and optimizing pipelines after transition, with a focus on performance, scalability, maintainability, operational excellence, and secure AWS deployment patterns.

• Drive implementation of repeatable engineering patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and monitoring across onboarded datasets.

• Ensure pipelines are built and managed in a way that supports long-term platform consistency, reliability, observability, and ease of support.

• Guide the design and operation of cloud-native data pipelines leveraging relevant AWS services such as  Amazon S3  for durable storage,  AWS Glue  for integration and catalog-driven processing, and  AWS Lake Formation  for governed data lake controls. AWS training and prescriptive guidance for data engineering emphasize building, optimizing, and securing solutions with these services.

• Promote the use of  AWS IAM , encryption, and environment-level controls to enforce secure access to platform resources and data products in line with enterprise governance expectations. AWS guidance highlights alignment with architectural guardrails and security controls for data engineering platforms.

Data Onboarding and Asset-Agnostic Enablement

• Lead a small team responsible for supporting offshore teams with onboarding data to the enterprise platform in an asset-agnostic manner.

• Define and operationalize onboarding patterns that can support a broad range of data assets, domains, and source systems without requiring bespoke platform redesign for each use case.

• Work with partner teams to simplify and standardize how data is ingested, transformed, governed, and published to the platform.

• Help offshore teams adopt common onboarding frameworks, technical standards, and delivery practices that improve speed and reduce friction.

• Establish reusable ingestion and processing patterns across batch and streaming use cases using technologies such as  AWS Glue ,  AWS Lambda ,  Amazon Kinesis , or event-driven integrations where appropriate to support scalable enterprise onboarding. AWS data engineering curricula and roadmap materials consistently position these services as core building blocks for modern cloud data engineering.

Data Mastering Platform Integration

• Support integration of platform pipelines and datasets with the enterprise data mastering platform.

• Collaborate with upstream and downstream stakeholders to ensure mastered data can be consumed reliably through standardized interfaces and governed data flows.

• Help establish data quality controls, reconciliation processes, metadata alignment, and stewardship workflows needed to support trusted mastered data in the platform.

• Contribute to issue resolution and continuous improvement related to mastering-related ingestion and distribution workflows.

• Support data mastering capabilities aligned with platforms such as  NeoXam DataHub , including data acquisition, cleansing, enrichment, mastering, and downstream distribution of trusted data products. NeoXam positions DataHub as a configurable enterprise data management platform for the financial industry that manages the full lifecycle of master, market, risk, and investment data.

• Work with business and platform stakeholders to support  golden record / golden copy  generation and maintenance for key financial datasets, including reference data, instruments, business entities, and related mastered domains. NeoXam DataHub is specifically positioned to provide a single source of truth and has been used in financial services environments for enterprise-level golden copy data management.

Team Leadership and Delivery Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of data engineers supporting offshore onboarding and pipeline engineering.

• Set clear priorities, manage team execution, and ensure delivery commitments are met with quality and accountability.

• Provide day-to-day coaching, technical guidance, and performance feedback to team members.

• Foster a strong engineering culture centered on collaboration, continuous improvement, documentation, operational discipline, and measurable service ownership.

• Drive engineering rigor across sprint delivery, production readiness, support models, and incident management for business-critical data platforms.

Collaboration, Governance, and Engineering Standards

• Partner effectively with global platform, architecture, governance, and Databricks-aligned teams to ensure offshore delivery aligns with enterprise standards.

• Contribute to design reviews, implementation planning, and technical discussions related to pipeline architecture, onboarding patterns, cloud platform controls, and mastering integrations.

• Support governance requirements through appropriate controls around lineage, schema consistency, data quality, retention, and secure access.

• Promote adoption of engineering best practices including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and production support readiness.

• Help establish cloud engineering standards for  infrastructure as code , release automation, and environment promotion using tools and services such as  AWS CodePipeline ,  AWS CodeBuild , and infrastructure automation frameworks where appropriate.

• Ensure monitoring and operational health practices are in place using logging, alerting, and telemetry patterns appropriate for enterprise data platforms, including AWS-native operational tooling where relevant.

Required Qualifications

Leadership and Delivery Experience

• 10+ years  of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or related engineering domains.

• 5+ years  of experience leading engineering teams, preferably in a distributed or offshore delivery model.

• Proven ability to lead a small, high-performing technical team in an execution-focused environment.

• Experience partnering with global or onshore stakeholders to deliver platform and pipeline initiatives across time zones.

Technical Expertise

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