Data Engineering Manager

Experity; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Experity is seeking a Senior Engineering Leader to build and guide a high-performing data engineering team in Bengaluru. You will own onboarding, performance management, and the growth path for engineers, while driving clear goals, accountability, and collaboration.

You will shape the data platform's evolution across ingestion, ETL/ELT, modeling, and serving layers using Snowflake, AWS, Kafka, dbt, and Airflow, ensuring secure, scalable, and observable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years in software or data engineering, including large-scale cloud data platforms; 3+ years of direct engineering people management.
• Strong hands-on SQL and Python; experience with Snowflake, AWS, ETL/ELT, data modeling, distributed systems, and batch/stream processing.
• Experience with Airflow, dbt, CI/CD, monitoring, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code; familiarity with Kafka and CDC.

Responsibilities

• Build, hire, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team; own onboarding, performance management, and career growth.
• Set clear goals and expectations; foster ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Develop technical leaders through feedback, mentoring, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead the evolution of scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective data pipelines and cloud data platforms.
• Provide direction across ingestion, CDC, ETL/ELT, orchestration, modeling, storage, and serving layers.

Skills

SQL

Python

Cloud data pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IS

Tools

Airflow

dbt

CI/CD

infrastructure-as-code

Kafka

CDC

Snowflake

AWS

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Build, hire, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team; own onboarding, performance management, and career growth.
• Set clear goals and expectations; foster ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Develop technical leaders through feedback, mentoring, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Data Platform Architecture & Technical Excellence

• Lead the evolution of scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective data pipelines and cloud data platforms.
• Provide direction across ingestion, CDC, ETL/ELT, orchestration, modeling, storage, and serving layers using Snowflake, AWS, Kafka, dbt, and Airflow.
• Partner with architects and Staff Engineers on design reviews, trade-offs, modernization, technical debt, and batch/near-real-time processing.
• Establish standards for code quality, automated testing, observability, maintainability, and AI-ready data services.

Execution, Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Own engineering execution, capacity planning, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments while partnering with Product and technical leaders on roadmap planning and prioritization.
• Champion DataOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and safe deployment practices.
• Own pipeline reliability, incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention; track freshness, quality, availability, cost, and delivery predictability.

Data Quality, Governance & Security

• Drive data quality, reconciliation, validation, lineage, and monitoring across the platform.
• Partner with governance, architecture, and security teams on HIPAA compliance, least-privilege access, auditability, and appropriate data protection.
• Enable trusted, reusable models and data products for self-service analytics and AI applications.

AI-Native Engineering & Innovation

• Champion responsible AI-native development for coding, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and reviews with human validation.
• Partner with Analytics, Data Science, and ML Engineering on AI-ready datasets and reusable data services.
• Evaluate technologies and automation opportunities that improve engineering productivity and platform efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, AI/ML, Security, and business stakeholders to translate needs into solutions.
• Operate as an integrated member of a globally distributed Data & Analytics team, fostering collaboration, shared ownership, and alignment while clearly communicating progress, technical trade-offs, risks, and decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in software or data engineering, including large-scale cloud data platforms; 3+ years of direct engineering people management.
• Strong hands-on SQL and Python; experience with Snowflake, AWS, ETL/ELT, data modeling, distributed systems, and batch/stream processing.
• Experience with Airflow, dbt, CI/CD, monitoring, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code; familiarity with Kafka and CDC.
• Proven architectural judgment, production troubleshooting, engineering delivery leadership, and stakeholder communication.
• Understanding of security, governance, and reliability in sensitive data environments; ability to remain technically engaged while delegating effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare technology, SaaS, or regulated-industry experience.
• Snowflake optimization, cost management, dimensional modeling, semantic layers, and self-service analytics.
• AI/ML data infrastructure, and practical AI-native SDLC adoption.
• Experience leading distributed teams across India and U.S. time zones

Business Impact & Success Measures

• Platform reliability, freshness, incident prevention, and recovery time.
• Predictable delivery, improved engineering productivity, and reduced technical bottlenecks.
• Data quality, reconciliation, observability, governance, and trusted analytics.
• Cloud cost efficiency, scalability, automation, and responsible AI-assisted development.
• Team growth, engagement, clear ownership, and timely delivery of customer and AI-enabling data products.

The successful candidate is both a technical leader and a people manager: able to dive into difficult problems, empower engineers to own solutions, make pragmatic trade-offs, and remain accountable for team and operational outcomes. The manager owns people, execution, and reliability while partnering with Staff Engineers on deep technical direction

Equal Opportunity Employer

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