Manager | Data Engineering | Chennai | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in Chennai seeks a Senior Manager Data Engineering to lead a high‑performing team building scalable data products and data pipelines for analytics across the company.

You will partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to define data strategies, improve data quality, and deliver reusable models, pipelines, and platforms that enable analytics at scale. Strong cloud and leadership experience required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 6-8 years as an IC in a Data Engineering or related Software Engineering role.
• 4+ years of experience managing data or related software teams.
• Track record of delivering large, multi-team projects.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional relationship-building.
• Experience with large-scale data processing systems (batch and streaming) and a Streaming First mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of data engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and hands-on career development.
• Provide deep technical guidance and support the team in driving large projects within complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders, gather deep domain expertise, and own delivery of projects across multiple streams.
• Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction, and drive decision-making.
• Inspire innovation and operational excellence within the team and influence other Data Engineering teams.

Skills

Data engineering

People management

Project leadership

Agile teams

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch

S3

Databricks

Spark

Spark-Streaming

Tableau

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Job Title: Manager | Data Engineering | Chennai | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

Role: Senior Manager Data Engineering

Experience:12-16

Overview

Data is a big deal. We ingest billions events each month into analytics platform and there are dozens of teams across the company depending on the platform to drive their decisions. We are looking for a senior data engineering manager to join our growing Data Engineering Org. In this role, you will lead a high-performing team of engineers focused on designing, building, and scaling foundational analytical data products that power decision-making across the company. You will partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define data strategies, improve data quality and reliability, and deliver reusable data models, pipelines, and platforms that enable analytics at scale. This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of data architecture, engineering excellence, and business impact.

Responsibilities

In this role you will get to

• Build and lead a team of data engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and hands-on career development.
• Provide deep technical guidance and support the team in driving large projects within complex dependencies and multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders, gather deep domain expertise, and own delivery of projects across multiple streams.
• Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction, and drive decision-making.
• Inspire innovation and operational excellence within the team and influence other Data Engineering teams.

Qualifications

On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

• You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field of study and at least 6-8 years of experience as an individual contributor in a Data Engineering or related Software Engineering role.
• You have 4+ years of experience managing data or related software teams.
• You have a track record of driving and delivering large (multi-person or multi-team) and complex projects.
• You are a great communicator and maintain many of the essential cross-team and cross-functional relationships necessary for the team's success.
• Industry experience working with large-scale, high-performance data processing systems (batch and streaming) with a "Streaming First" mindset to drive business growth and improve the product experience.
• You have stellar people management skills and experience leading agile data or related software teams.
• You are passionate about grooming talent and helping them reach their highest potential.
• You can drive technical excellence, pushing for innovation and quality.
• Experience working with public cloud offerings such as Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, S3, Databricks, Spark/Spark-Streaming, and Databricks.

We'd be super excited if you have

• Experience with at least one high-level programming language, such as Python
• Understanding and experience building RESTful APIs and microservices
• Experience with Tableau or other reporting tools.