Data Collection and Insights Architect

About Opptra

Opptra is a digital-first omnichannel distributor helping global brands enter and scale across

Asia’s fastest-growing consumer markets — India, Southeast Asia, and the GCC. Founded by

Binny Bansal (co-founder of Flipkart), Opptra operates on a stock-and-sell model, purchasing

inventory upfront and running end-to-end operations from market entry strategy through to

post-purchase experience. With 28 global brands, 18 warehouses, and presence across 15+

marketplaces, Opptra is building the operating system for brand expansion in Asia.

The Role

We are looking for a hands-on, data-obsessed leader to build and own Opptra’s external data

intelligence layer — the crawling, collection, structuring, and delivery of market, competitor, and

category data that powers critical business decisions across the company. This data, combined

with Opptra’s internal operational data, will feed into analytics and decision systems used by

multiple teams across platforms and geographies.

This is not a reporting role. You will architect and build the data pipelines, crawlers, and

real-time feeds that become a core competitive advantage for Opptra — enabling everything

from what to buy and how to price it, to which brands to onboard in which country.

What You’ll Own

1. External Data Collection & Crawling Infrastructure

• Design, build, and maintain scalable crawling systems to collect structured data from
• marketplaces, competitor sites, and public data sources across India, SEA, and GCC.

Data to be collected includes (but is not limited to):

• Product listings, pricing, promotions, and discounts across platforms
• Category rankings, bestseller lists, search result positions
• Competitor assortment, new launches, and catalogue changes
• Customer ratings, reviews, and sentiment signals
• Ad placement data, sponsored product visibility, and share-of-voice metrics
• Brand presence and market penetration signals by country
• Handle anti-scraping mechanisms, rate-limiting, geo-restrictions, and platform-specific nuances across 15+ marketplace environments.
• Build real-time and near-real-time data feeds where speed of insight matters (e.G., competitor price changes, flash sale monitoring, ad bid landscapes).

2. Data Structuring, Quality & Enrichment

• Normalize and structure heterogeneous data from diverse platforms into a unified,
• queryable data layer that different teams can consume reliably.
• Build entity resolution and matching systems to map products, brands, and categories
• consistently across marketplaces and regions.
• Implement data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, and freshness tracking to ensure
• data reliability for downstream decision-making.
• Enrich external data with taxonomy, categorization, and metadata tagging relevant to
• Opptra’s category focus (consumer electronics, home & kitchen, babycare, FMCG, etc.).

3. Decision Support Across Business Functions

• The data you collect and organize will directly power decisions across:
• Performance Marketing Competitor ad spend signals, keyword opportunity mapping, category share-of-voice, price position relative to competition — feeding real-time bidding and budget allocation decisions.
• Pricing & Promotions Competitive price monitoring, discount depth analysis, marketplace fee structures, and margin-optimal price recommendations across platforms and regions.
• Buying & Inventory Demand signals from search trends, bestseller velocity, seasonal patterns, and category growth indicators to inform what to buy, how much, and when Brand Onboarding Market attractiveness scoring by country and category, whitespace identification, competitive landscape assessment, and brand-market fit analysis to guide which brands to pursue and where.
• Category Intelligence Category size estimation, growth trajectories, consumer preference shifts, and regulatory landscape changes across target markets.

4. Integration with Internal Data & Analytics

• Work closely with internal data engineering and analytics teams to combine external
• intelligence with Opptra’s operational data (sales, inventory, logistics, marketing
• performance).
• Build unified data products and dashboards that give platform teams, country heads, and
• category managers a single view combining market context with internal performance.
• Ensure data pipelines are production-grade, well-documented, and serve both batch
• analytics and real-time operational needs.

5. Scale & Innovation

• Continuously expand coverage to new platforms, data sources, and geographies as
• Opptra scales.
• Explore and integrate alternative data sources (social listening, creator/influencer
• performance data, regulatory databases, trade data).
• Leverage AI/ML to automate data extraction from unstructured sources, improve entity
• matching, and generate predictive signals from collected data.

What We’re Looking For: Must Have

• 5–10 years of experience in data engineering, web scraping/crawling at scale, or market data infrastructure roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise with large-scale crawling frameworks (Scrapy, Playwright,
• Puppeteer, or custom solutions) and techniques to handle dynamic pages, CAPTCHAs, and anti-bot measures.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL;
  experience with data pipeline orchestration tools Airflow, Dagster, or similar).
• Experience building and operating real-time or near-real-time data pipelines (Kafka,Flink, or equivalent).
• Proven track record of collecting, structuring, and delivering e-commerce or marketplace data at scale.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) for deploying and scaling crawling workloads.
• Strong understanding of data quality, monitoring, and observability practices.

Strong Plus

• Experience working with Asian marketplace platforms
• Background in e-commerce, retail analytics, or competitive intelligence.
• Experience applying ML/NLP for entity matching, product categorization, or sentiment
• analysis on marketplace data.
• Familiarity with pricing optimization, assortment planning, or demand forecasting use
• cases.
• Exposure to multiple Asian markets and understanding of regional platform variations.

The Mindset We Value

• Builder mentality- You want to create systems from scratch, not just maintain them
• Obsession with data freshness and accuracy- You understand that stale data is worse than no data.
• Cross-functional fluency —you can translate a pricing team’s question into a data pipeline spec
• Comfort with ambiguity— marketplace ecosystems change constantly;
  you adapt fast
• Ownership orientation —You think about data as a product, not just a feed.

Why Opptra

• Build the data backbone of Asia’s most ambitious brand distribution platform, operating
• across three of the world’s fastest-growing consumer regions.
• Work alongside a leadership team.
• who understand the power of data-driven operations at scale.
• Your work will directly influence millions of dollars in buying, pricing, and marketing
• decisions across 28+ global brands.
• Early-stage impact with real infrastructure — Opptra has the operational scale (18
• warehouses, 15+ platforms) but the data intelligence layer is being built ground-up.