Job Summary:
Lead and manage the Avis Budget Group India Data Platform Engineering team, providing platform development and operations support within a new centralized global data architecture and engineering framework. You will enforce best practices, governance, and drive automation, efficiency, and performance of the enterprise data platform.
This role requires a resourceful individual, a persistent problem solver, people leader and a strong hands-on engineer who can move around various technology stacks with ease.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead configuration and design of database systems and data integration services, ensuring PII, GDPR, encryption, and security best practices.
- Develop and maintain robust data pipelines on AWS and OCI clouds for ingestion, transformation and storage.
- Implement and maintain IBM CDC target environments and Confluent Kafka clusters to meet strong performance requirements.
- Handle data migrations using AWS DMS, ensuring data encryption at rest and in motion with IBM Voltage.
- Drive POCs and rollout of cloud-based solutions with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee data modelling standards, metadata management, and data quality practices across the platform.
- Provide L3 support for critical production systems, enhance observability stacks (Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch) and enforce operational excellence.
- Manage, mentor and coach a team of Data Platform Engineers, fostering a collaborative environment for innovation and growth.
- Engage with global data teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, cost-optimized, and high-impact platform solutions.
Skills you should bring to the table:
Exp Range - 13-16 Years
Location - Embassy Tech Village ( Outer Ring Rd, near New Horizon College, Devarabisanahalli )
Mode :- Hybrid ( 3 Days in Office)
- 13+ years of experience in data platform engineering, including 5+ years in a people-management role.
- Advanced expertise in AWS services (RDS, Redshift, DMS, Lambda), OCI cloud data services and infrastructure-as-code.
- Proficiency with IBM CDC replication technologies, Confluent Kafka and IBM Voltage encryption solutions.
- Strong background in data modelling, ETL design, database tuning and big data solutions (NoSQL, streaming).
- Strong expertise in NoSQL database (preferably Couchbase) cluster management, including version upgrades, security patching, performance tuning, and ensuring high availability through node scaling and rebalancing.
- Hands-on experience with Python/Shell scripting, Terraform, CloudFormation and Jenkins-based CI/CD.
- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix environments, networking protocols and production system ownership.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across IST and US East time zones.
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