Director of Engineering

SourcingXPress; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 9,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics is seeking a Senior Director/Director, Big Data Engineering to lead data platform strategy and delivery. You will work with key leaders across analytics, data engineering, and business development to shape solutions that scale for global clients.

The role emphasizes leadership, architecture, and hands-on design of data lakehouse and cloud-based platforms, with a focus on governance, security, and scalable data delivery in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data engineering with leadership exposure.
• Experience designing data lake/lakehouse and data fabric concepts.
• Strong Azure/DataBricks stack and data platform architecture know-how.

Responsibilities

• Lead large data engineering teams and client engagements.
• Define data architecture roadmaps, proposals, and estimates.
• Collaborate with analytics, data science, and engineering leaders to advance capabilities.

Skills

Big Data Engineering

Azure Databricks

PySpark

SQL

Data Lake

Leadership

Education

B.Tech/B.E.

Tools

Databricks

Hadoop

Kafka

Spark

NoSQL

Job description

Job Description:

Company: Careernet Technologies

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Business Type: Enterprise

Company Type: Product & Service

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: IPO/Public

Industry: Analytics

Salary Range: ₹ 50-95 Lacs PA

Job Title:

Partner / Senior Director / Director - Big Data Engineering

Note:

The designation will be commensurate with expertise and experience. Compensation packages are among the best in the industry.

Location:

Bangalore | Chennai | Hyderabad

This is a permanent role with one of Careernet's listed clients, a global AI and analytics consulting firm.

With data and technology at the core of our solutions, our tribe is solving problems that eventually impact the lives of millions globally. Our culture is modeled around expertise and respect, with a team-first mindset. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, you'll find our delivery centers across the globe and offices in multiple cities across India, the US, the UK, Canada, and Singapore, including a substantial remote global workforce.

We're Great Place to Work-Certified™.

Working at Tiger Analytics, you'll be at the heart of an AI revolution. You'll work with teams that push the boundaries of what is possible and build solutions that energize and inspire.

Curious about the role? What would your typical day look like?

As a Big Data Engineering Leader, you will work with key leaders across the organization, including tech consulting, analytics consulting, data science, data engineering, and business development, to advance the company's capabilities and positioning.

On a Typical Day, You Might

• Provide client advisory on key engineering and architectural decisions across the full life cycle of big data engineering projects, such as Data Lake / Lakehouse implementation, DWH modernization, and Data Fabric implementation
• Work with strategic clients to help define their data engineering roadmaps
• Identify new ways of leveraging technology to solve client engineering problems
• Track the latest tech innovations and build relevant PoVs and PoCs to further our capabilities
• Identify opportunities for Tiger to build IP and lead the development efforts
• Lead capability-building initiatives as part of our Innovation Lab and L&D Academy
• Participate in organization building, hiring, partnerships, conferences, etc.

What do we expect? Skills that we'd love!

• 16+ years of data engineering experience, with 5+ years in the Big Data and Azure ecosystem
• Experience leading and mentoring multiple high-performing data engineering teams
• Strong experience working on proposals, defining solutions, roadmaps and plans, and doing estimations
• Strong experience working with the following technologies:
• Azure ecosystem: Azure Databricks, Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Event Hub, Streaming Analytics, Cosmos DB, Unity Catalog, and Purview
• Must have: Strong experience working on the Databricks ecosystem (PySpark, Notebooks, Unity Catalog, DLT, Workflows, SQL Warehouse, etc.)
• Hadoop ecosystem: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, NoSQL (HBase / MongoDB / Cassandra), Impala, Sqoop, etc.
• Programming experience in either Python or Scala/Java
• CI/CD with Git, Jenkins / Azure DevOps
• Exposure to NoSQL databases and data modeling
• Good exposure to emerging technologies like GenAI, LLMs, etc.
• Experience with:
• Data lake / Lakehouse / data fabric / data mesh design and implementation
• Designing and building large cloud-based data platform solutions (on Azure)
• Building solutions to support BI and Data Science teams in consuming data securely and in a governed manner
• B.Tech/B.E. from a reputed institute preferred

You are important to us, let's stay connected!

Every individual brings a different set of skills and qualities, so even if you don't tick all the boxes for this role today, we urge you to apply as there might be a suitable, unique role for you tomorrow.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Our diverse and inclusive culture and values guide us to listen, trust, respect, and encourage people to grow the way they desire.

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