23h ago

Director - Data Engineering and Platforms

Bengaluru

$350k-$450k / yearest.

full-timeleadmedia

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead and scale high-performing engineering teams building mission-critical data infrastructure for JioHotStar, powering real-time event processing and petabyte-scale data systems that enable media streaming, personalization, analytics, and AI. You'll drive execution excellence, system reliability, and cost efficiency while partnering with Product, Data Science, and Business stakeholders.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Lead, hire, and mentor data platform engineering teams.
  • Provide technical direction for real-time data platforms.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align platform outcomes.

📋 Requirements

  • 12+ years in data engineering.
  • 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed processing frameworks like Spark, Flink.
  • Deep familiarity with Kafka/Kinesis and streaming pipelines.

✨ Nice to Have

  • Prior exposure to media streaming or AI platforms.
  • Experience scaling teams during rapid growth.
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