IND Staff Data Engineer

IND Staff Engineer - GCC097

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• Key Responsibilities 

Offshore Team Leadership & People Management 

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of offshore Data Engineers supporting enterprise Data and AI initiatives. 

• Serve as the primary people leader for offshore team members, including performance management, career development, goal setting, and succession planning. 

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence. 

• Support recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, and retention strategies for offshore talent. 

• Partner with onsite leaders to ensure team members receive appropriate mentorship, growth opportunities, and feedback. 

Delivery Oversight & Resource Management 

• Oversee delivery execution across a portfolio of data engineering, analytics, data product, and AI initiatives. 

• Manage resource allocation and capacity planning to ensure alignment with organizational priorities. 

• Monitor team utilization, delivery commitments, project risks, and operational support activities. 

• Establish processes for work intake, prioritization, escalation management, and delivery reporting. 

• Ensure offshore resources are effectively integrated within product-aligned and functional teams. 

Stakeholder & Partner Management 

• Act as the primary liaison between offshore teams and Data, Analytics, AI, and Technology leadership. 

• Build strong partnerships with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Architects, and Business stakeholders. 

• Facilitate alignment of priorities, resource needs, skill development opportunities, and delivery expectations. 

• Provide regular updates to leadership regarding team performance, capacity, delivery progress, risks, and opportunities. 

Technical Leadership & Governance 

• Provide technical oversight and guidance across data engineering initiatives involving Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, data integration, analytics, and AI capabilities. 

• Promote engineering best practices, coding standards, testing practices, CI/CD adoption, and operational excellence. 

• Support architecture reviews and ensure solutions align with enterprise standards and strategic technology direction. 

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and cost optimization. 

AI & Data Modernization Enablement 

• Support adoption of emerging AI technologies, including generative AI, prompt engineering, AI-enabled automation, and agentic workflows. 

• Partner with technical leaders to identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, data quality, and business value through AI-enabled solutions. 

• Encourage continuous skill development in cloud technologies, data engineering disciplines, and AI platforms. 

• Ensure appropriate governance, controls, and validation processes for AI-enabled solutions. 

Operational Excellence 

• Establish and monitor key performance indicators related to delivery quality, productivity, platform stability, and team effectiveness. 

• Drive improvements in development lifecycle processes, operational support models, and incident management practices. 

• Ensure adherence to enterprise data governance, security, compliance, and risk management standards. 

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automation, standardization, and process optimization. 

 

Qualifications 

Required 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. 

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, cloud engineering, analytics engineering, or related technology disciplines. 

• 3+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams, preferably within a global delivery model. 

• Experience leading offshore, distributed, or matrixed teams supporting multiple business and technology stakeholders. 

• Strong understanding of Snowflake, SQL, ETL/ELT processes, and modern cloud-based data architectures. 

• Experience with AWS technologies including S3, Lambda, Fargate, EC2, and related services. 

• Understanding of Google Cloud data technologies such as BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and Vertex AI. 

• Experience managing Agile delivery processes, resource planning, and project execution. 

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills. 

Preferred 

• Experience supporting enterprise Data & AI organizations through a Global Capability Center (GCC) or offshore delivery model. 

• Experience managing teams supporting data products, analytics platforms, AI initiatives, and cloud modernization programs. 

• Knowledge of ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Informatica, and modern data integration platforms. 

• Experience implementing or supporting generative AI and intelligent automation solutions. 

• Familiarity with enterprise governance, data management, and operating model frameworks. 

 

Success Measures 

• Offshore team engagement, retention, and talent development. 

• Consistent delivery against commitments across multiple portfolio teams. 

• Effective resource utilization and capacity management. 

• Stakeholder satisfaction across supported Data and AI organizations. 

• Improvement in engineering quality, operational performance, and delivery predictability. 

• Growth in team capabilities supporting cloud, data, analytics, and AI initiatives. 

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