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Engineering Manager
Onshore • Data Engineering Delivery Management
Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)
Position Type: Full-time / Consultant
Job Description
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to own end-to-end programme delivery for a large-scale, cloud-based data engineering engagement on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will manage a distributed team of data engineers, leads, and analysts across all sprints driving sprint planning, milestone governance, stakeholder communication, and change management — while serving as the primary escalation point for blockers and dependencies and championing Agile best practices and a high-performance delivery culture across the offshore-onshore team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of large-scale data engineering projects, including data lakes and data pipelines on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Drive the pre-sales process by engaging with clients, understanding requirements, and developing technical proposals and proof of concepts (PoCs).
- Manage end-to-end programme delivery across all sprints: sprint planning, backlog prioritisation, velocity tracking, and milestone governance for a distributed team of data engineers, leads, and analysts.
- Act as the primary escalation point for blockers and dependencies; coordinate environment readiness and release scheduling with the DevOps Engineer.
- Drive stakeholder communication, change-request management, and progress reporting.
- Champion continuous improvement — Agile best practices, documentation quality, and a high-performance delivery culture across the offshore-onshore team.
Required Skills
- Proven experience managing distributed data engineering teams in an Agile / Scrum framework using JIRA and Confluence.
- Sufficient GCP data engineering knowledge to assess technical risks, facilitate architecture discussions, and manage delivery trade-offs.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive reporting skills; experience managing client expectations in fixed-scope engagements.
- Servant-leadership mindset with expertise in offshore / onshore team coordination, time-zone management, and knowledge transfer.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with stakeholders, clients, and technical teams.
- 8-10 years of professional experience, including delivery and engineering management of data engineering or data platform programs, with hands-on involvement in at least one data lake implementation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Agile / Scrum certification (e.g., CSM, SAFe) or PMP.
- Experience delivering fixed-bid engagements on GCP data services.
- Experience with data governance tools like AWS Lake Formation, Azure Purview, or Google Data Catalog.
- Certifications in cloud platforms such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Data Engineer, or Google Professional Data Engineer.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in the context of data engineering.