Director - Data Engineering (20-25 yrs)

DMI is seeking a full-time Director of Data Engineering to support our manufacturing clients' large-scale digital transformation.

The Director of Data Engineering is responsible for ensuring the day-to-day leadership and guidance of the local, India-based data team. This role will be the primary interface with the client's US-based management team and will work cross-functionally with various IT functions to streamline project delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities :

- Work with a distributed team with a primary focus on the management of resources, team assignments, and fostering career growth

- Input into the hiring of team members for the locally-based team

- Support compliance with best practices related to data availability and security procedures

- Apply proven communication and problem-solving skills to resolve support data issues as they arise

- Demonstrate skills in abstract development frameworks

- Demonstrate accountability to assigned work & timelines

- Demonstrated leadership skills.

- Demonstrated technical competence for the role.

- Demonstrated timely delivery of assigned tasks and effective communication on project status and escalation when needed.

Education and Experience :

- 8+ years of experience in management roles dealing with resourcing. Experience with defining employee career growth, mentorship, and all HR responsibilities.

- 20+ years or equivalent degree + experience

Required Skills/Certifications :

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Ability to determine data patterns and perform root cause analysis to resolve production reporting bugs

- Familiarity with the data, analytics, and BI space and knowledge of Power BI

- Experience working with Microsoft data integration platforms such as Azure Data Factory, SSIS, Synapse

- Experience with SQL (Python experience a plus)

- Familiarity with Azure DevOps for source code management a plus

- Understanding of data management (e. g. permissions, security, and monitoring)

- Experience working with and building strong relationships with customers and external partners

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including logical structuring and delivering presentations

- Knowledge of working with helpdesk tools or platforms like ServiceNow is a plus

- Experience with cloud services (Azure) is a plus

- Experience in working with an onshore client is desirable

- Eagerness to learn and think critically to design improved processes

Preferred Experience with :

- Estimating and Planning

- Work breakdown for the team

- Data pipelines

- Data Transformations

- Code/Unit Test

- PR & Code Reviews

- Performance & Load Testing

- Functional & Regression Testing

- Tier 2 support/consulting

- Production Support

- Functional ask to Technical design

- Data Engineering

- Agile Methodologies

- CI/CD

- Metadata driven frameworks.

- Technical documentation

- Azure Synapse Spark

- Python

- Complex SQL

- Parquet & Delta file processing

- ETL Optimizations

- Azure DevOps