Director/Senior Manager - Data Engineering - IT

Director / Sr. Manager (Data Engineering)

Job Summary :

As Director/Sr.Manager in Data Engineering, you are responsible for defining and executing data strategy for clients. Your role focused on high quality strategy, definition and delivery of solutions involving :

- Data Integration, Governance & Wrangling

- Data Storage and Computation Frameworks, Performance Optimizations

- Analytics & Visualizations

- Infrastructure & Cloud Computing

- Data Management Platforms

- The role requires a hands-on technologist with expertise in databases, Hadoop, MDM and reporting to provide strategic and tactical direction to customers in the areas of marketing and technology. The person should have a strong programming background like Java.

- As data engineering practitioner, you should have a point of view and understanding of build vs. buy, performance considerations, hosting, business intelligence, reporting & analytics. Ideally, you have experience in integrating data with marketing scenarios like segmentation, targeting, consumer 360 view, etc.

Responsibilities :

- Provide inputs to define and execute strategic roadmap for enterprise data architecture by identifying the current landscape and future business goals

- Provide technical leadership and hands-on implementation role in the areas of data techniques including data access, integration, modeling, visualization, mining, design and implementation

- Lead a globally distributed team to deliver high quality solutions. Manage functional & non-functional scope and quality

- Help establish standard data practices like governance and address other non-functional issues like data security, privacy and quality

- Help establish best practice like standards and guidelines for design & development, deployment, support and analytics and mining

- Help establish best practice in acquiring, storing and analyzing structured, semi-structured and un-structured data from the enterprise and outside like social

- Come up with analytics solutions based on the business goals and appropriate data visualization to support the goals

- Manage and provide technical leadership to large data programs or multiple programs implementation based on the requirement using agile technologies

- Define and drive key transformational programs like customer 360 degree view for the clients

- Functional understanding related to digital marketing &customer experience solution blocks, Master data Management (MDM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Campaign Management, Tag Management, Media Buying, Optimizations, Recommendations & Targeting, DMP, and DSP.

- Understanding Digital data sources such as Open source data (ex: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), Web log Data (SiteCatalyst, Google Analytics), 3rd party paid data (ex: Acxiom, ACNielsen etc.) and business application data (CRM, Ecommerce etc.)

- Run workshops with clients and align client stakeholders to optimal solutions

Experience Guidelines :

- 12-19 years of experience within the field of data engineering

- Excellent understanding of data technologies landscape

- Well versed with pros and cons of various database technologies like Relational, NO SQL, MPP, Columnar databases

- Well versed with Software as a service, Platform as a service and Infrastructure as a service concepts and can drive clients to a decision

- Expert in programming languages like Java, Scala and / or JavaScript

- Expert in multi-dimensional modeling like start schema, snowflakes, normalized and de-normalized models

- Expert in one or more ETL, BI, Analytics and advanced visualization technologies

- Expert in in Hadoop eco-system with one or more distribution like Cloudera and HortonWorks

- Expert in agile development with CI / CD pipeline with data projects

- Knowledge in computation frameworks like Storm and Spark

- Knowledge in cloud and social media technologies and integrations

- Expert in master data management and building customer 360 degree views

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills

- Strong communication skills verbal, written and visual presentations

- Strong coordination and negotiation skills

- Multi geo experience and distributed delivery experience in large programs

- Business Knowledge: Data driven marketing experience would be a plus

Education :

- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.