Director - Data Engineering & AI Solutions

Director Data Engineering & AI Solutions

Job Description :

Strategic Leadership & Delivery :

• Provide strategic direction and oversight for the Data Engineering and AI Solutions practice, driving business growth and technological innovation.
• We need an experienced candidate from a strong IT services company background who has led large-scale data engineering initiatives across diverse technological stacks.
• Establish the technical vision and strategy for enterprise data platforms leveraging both enterprise tools (Informatica, Talend, Snowflake) and open-source frameworks (Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Hadoop).
• Define organizational standards for data architecture, ETL / ELT processes, and data governance to support data-intensive applications and AI solution integration.
• Develop and implement cost optimization frameworks for large-scale data platforms, ensuring efficient resource utilization without compromising performance.
• Lead performance optimization initiatives to enhance data processing efficiency, reduce latency, and improve throughput for mission-critical data pipelines.
• Direct cross-functional collaboration between Sales, Delivery, Data Science, and Solution Architecture teams to align on enterprise-grade data platform strategies that enable advanced analytics and AI workloads.
• Establish center of excellence for data engineering best practices, ensuring high performance, reliability, and maintainability of data pipelines across the organization.
• Oversee multiple concurrent implementations of complex data infrastructure, including data lakes, data warehouses, streaming solutions, and real-time processing capabilities.
• Act as an executive-level advisor to client leadership on data engineering strategy, helping them modernize their data infrastructure to support AI and advanced analytics use cases.
• Build, manage, and scale multiple teams of data engineers, DevOps specialists, and cloud architects across different regions and projects.
• Develop data platform KPIs, establish performance metrics, and implement data governance frameworks at an organizational level.

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