Senior Engieering Manager/Associate Director - Data

Role Purpose:

Senior Engineering Manager/Associate Director – Data Platform & Data Services will own the enterprise data foundation, data services, and AI-first analytics ecosystem. This role is responsible for building a trusted, compliant, and scalable data platform that powers business insights, AI use cases, regulatory reporting, and customer commitments.

The responsibilities we entrust you

Key Responsibilities – Data Platform Ownership & Strategy

• Own end-to-end data platform strategy across ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and access.

• Define architecture for batch, streaming, and near-real-time data.

• Ensure cloud-native, resilient, and AI-ready platforms.

AI-First Data Services & Analytics

• Enable AI-first data services including curated datasets, metrics layers, and data APIs.

• Support AI/ML and GenAI use cases with high-quality governed data.

• Drive self-serve analytics and NLP-based data exploration.

Data Governance, Privacy & Regulatory Compliance

• Own data governance frameworks including lineage, quality, and access controls.

• Ensure compliance with data privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements.

• Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Security teams.

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence

• Ensure high availability and SLA compliance.

• Establish observability, monitoring, and incident response.

• Optimize platform cost and performance.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Build and lead data engineering and platform teams.

• Establish standards, reviews, and career paths.

• Foster AI-first culture.

Senior Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with CXOs and senior business leaders.

• Translate regulatory and business needs into sca

Whar matters in this role:

Experience & Portfolio:

• 12-15 years experience in data platforms or data engineering.

• Sr EM-level leadership experience.

• Strong regulatory, compliance, and data privacy exposure.

• Experience in regulated environments.

• AI / ML platform exposure preferred.

Location: Bangalore

Things you should be comfortable with:

1. Working from office: 5 days a week
2. Pushing the boundaries: Have a big idea See something that you feel we should do but haven't done We will hustle hard to make it happen. We encourage out of the box thinking, and if you bring that with you, we will make sure you get a bag that fits all the energy you bring along.

What we value

1. in our people:
2. You take the shot: You decide fast and
3. deliver right.You are the CEO of what you do: You show ownership and make
4. things happen.You sing your work like an artist: You seek to learn and take pride in the work you do.