Director - Data Engineering (8-10 yrs)

About the job :

Our client is looking for Director Data Engineering to support our manufacturing clients' large scale digital transformation.

The Director 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 management team of the client and will work cross functionally with various IT functions to streamline project delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities :

- Work with a distributed team with 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 competency for the role.

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

Education and Experience :

- 8+ years of experience in a management role dealing with resourcing, Practice build, delivery management, career growth or similar activities and/or 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.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