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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Sr Business Intelligence Engineer to join our Intelligence team. In this role, you will drive the development and optimization of our analytical infrastructure, enabling efficient, scalable, and consistent reporting and analytics across the organization. You will play a critical role in shaping the foundation of our BI ecosystem—working at the intersection of engineering, data modeling, and stakeholder enablement. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced BI engineer who can execute cross-functional projects, design performant data models, and contribute to the execution of a unified data strategy across platforms. You will also provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members and contribute to the evolution of Cohere’s modern data stack and governance practices. What you’ll do: Lead the execution and refinement of our business intelligence and analytics architecture, ensuring consistency, performance, and scalability across dashboards and self-service tools. Design and implement robust semantic and dimensional data models supporting operational, clinical, and strategic analytics use cases. Collaborate closely with data platform, analytics, and product teams to define shared data definitions, build source-of-truth datasets, and align transformations with stakeholder needs. Improve data pipeline efficiency and maintainability by establishing and enforcing best practices in dbt modeling, testing, and documentation. Support release management, quality testing, version control, and promotion of analytics assets across environments. Enable data providers and analysts to deliver high-impact dashboards and KPI frameworks using Tableau, with an emphasis on performance, usability, and governance. Serve as the primary Tableau Cloud SME for the organization, including user management, security, performance tuning, and environment configuration. Lead integration of Tableau dashboards into front-end web applications using the Ta

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Senior Backend Engineer - Database Change Management An overview of this role As a Senior Backend Engineer, Database Upgrades, you'll help replace GitLab's sequential database migration system with a dependency graph model that makes upgrades faster and safer for GitLab.com and self-managed customers. You'll lead the design and delivery of a migration validation and test framework, including versioned fixture data across about 1,000 tables, a continuous integration (CI)-integrated test runner, and required correctness checks. You'll also serve as the senior technical anchor for our India-based engineering group, using clear writt

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📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India· Full-time
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Key Responsibilities Enterprise Data Strategy & Client Engagement: Develop and maintain a comprehensive data architecture strategy that aligns with organizational and client business objectives. Serve as a key technical advisor for clients, translating business requirements into innovative data solutions. Build and maintain strong client relationships by providing expert guidance and managing expectations throughout project lifecycles. Data Modeling, Design & Engineering: Design and optimize both logical and physical data models to support enterprise-wide systems. Architect data warehousing solutions, overseeing the integration of data from multiple sources to enable robust business intelligence and analytics. Directly develop, test, and implement ETL processes and data pipelines, ensuring data quality, consistency, and performance. Technology Evaluation & Implementation: Evaluate emerging data technologies and tools to determine their fit within the existing architecture and potential for future scalability. Oversee the integration of new technologies into the enterprise data architecture, balancing innovation with risk management. Team Leadership & Hands-On Management: Lead cross-functional teams, providing mentorship and technical guidance to junior data engineers and architects. Maintain a hands-on approach by actively participating in coding, design sessions, and troubleshooting complex data issues. Ensure project milestones are met through effective resource management and team coordination. Performance, Security & Best Practices: Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing performance across various systems. Collaborate with security teams to enforce data governance, compliance, and privacy standards. Establish and promote best practices in data management, data engineering, and architecture design. Documentation & Reporting: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation covering data architecture designs, data flows, integrati

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📍 Bengaluru, India
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Engineering Manager - Database Change Management An overview of this role As Engineering Manager, Database Change Management, you'll lead a remote backend engineering team in the Database Excellence stage. The team owns database health and the database upgrade experience across GitLab.com and self-managed deployments. You'll guide two missions at once: keeping one of the largest PostgreSQL installations in the world within its capacity limits, and delivering a multi-year replacement of GitLab's database migration system so customer upgrades become dramatically faster and safer. Reporting to the Database Excellence stage's enginee

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📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India· Full-time
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To lead the enterprise data architecture and data platform engineering initiatives for Adani Airport Holdings Limited, driving the digital transformation of airport operations. This role focuses on designing highly available, secure, and scalable data analytics platforms leveraging Databricks on Microsoft Azure cloud to enable real-time situation awareness, data-driven decision-making, optimize passenger flow, and support the strategic growth of AAHL’s aviation ecosystem. Source: Adani Group | Job ID: 53636

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Role: DataOps Solution Architect — Azure Data Platform (Fabric & Databricks) Owns end-to-end architecture of the Azure data platform (Fabric, Databricks, Azure services) and sets the governance, security, and DataOps standards engineering teams implement. Design authority and primary architecture advisor to the client, not the day-to-day builder. Experience Required 8-10+ years overall in data engineering / cloud architecture, including 3+ years as a Solution Architect or in a comparable design-authority role. Microsoft Fabric: 2+ years hands-on. Azure Databricks: 4+ years hands-on. Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise-scale Azure data platforms end-to-end. Azure is mandatory ; experience across multiple client engagements or a consulting/SI background is a plus. Core Technical Expertise Azure Platform Fabric & Databricks architecture. ADF. ADLS. Entra ID. Key Vault. Monitor/Log Analytics. Microsoft Fabric Workspace & environment strategy. Lakehouse/Warehouse. OneLake. Pipelines/Notebooks. REST APIs/CLI. Governance. Azure Databricks Workspace strategy. Unity Catalog. RBAC. Jobs/Workflows. Delta Lake. Asset Bundles. ML platform integration. DevOps & IaC Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD. Terraform & Bicep. Branching/release strategy. Reusable IaC modules. Security & Networking Entra ID. RBAC architecture. Private Endpoints/DNS. Key Vault integration. DataOps Standards CI/CD & test gates for pipelines. Data-quality frameworks. Observability/alerting architecture. SLAs/SLOs. Incident-management practices. FinOps guardrails. Key Responsibilities Own end-to-end architecture; translate requirements into scalable, secure, cost-effective designs. Design enterprise-scale Fabric/Databricks architecture including workspace, networking, security, and governance. Set standards for CI/CD, IaC, DataOps, and environment management; ensure enterprise security and regulatory compliance. Evaluate technology options; identify architectural risks a

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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Opportunity Overview: This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is experiencing rapid growth. You’ll play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance. As a Staff Engineer on the Application Engineering team, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader - responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, scalable software systems that power Cohere Health’s core platform. You’ll act as a multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the team, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, data, design , clinical and payment teams to deliver solutions that meet compliance, quality, and performance standards. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex problems in healthcare, have deep expertise in building distributed systems including data solutions, and want to influence architectural decisions for security and scale, drive cross-collaborations for alignment, establish technical standards for consistency and evolve both application and data engineering best practices at scale. What you’ll do: Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and drive the architecture of large-scale, distributed application systems across the Cohere platform. Ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and compliant with NCQA, CMS, and payer requirements. Champion platform engineering best practices in CI/CD, testing, release management, and observability. Hands-On Engineering Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in modern frameworks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/React, Java/Kotlin). Lead the development of core features and APIs that directly impact providers, payers, and patients. Partner with DevOps and Data teams to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and operati

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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Technical, Hands-on Manager to lead a team in building AI-driven healthcare enterprise applications . In this role, you will combine strong people leadership with deep technical expertise to guide the development of scalable, data-intensive solutions that drive meaningful business impact. As a leader who is still technically involved , you will mentor and manage data scientists and analysts while having the ability to guide the team through evaluating, selecting, and implementing the right models , paired with an understanding of end to end workflow and ensure the delivery of scalable AI solutions . This position requires excellent communication and collaboration skills as you partner closely with internal stakeholders and cross‑functional engineering, product, and clinical teams . In our fast-paced environment, adaptability is key—your ability to reprioritize quickly and lead your team through evolving business needs will ensure maximum impact What you’ll do: Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers, ensuring strong execution and continuous skill advancement. Contribute to event‑driven architecture design and implementation, enabling asynchronous processing and large‑scale system integration. Work seamlessly across functions—partnering with Data Scientists on model tuning, experimentation, and prompt design; collaborating with Product and Software Engineering to embed AI/ML into user-facing applications; engaging with DevOps/Platform Engineering on environment setup, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability; and working with Data Engineering on pipeline design and ingestion strategies. Provide technical leadership in the effective use of AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, EMR, S3, Athena, Batch, Textract, Comprehend, Bedrock. Drive the implementation of project scope definition, effort estimation, and planning in close coordination with cross-functional teams. Conduct code reviews, pr

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📍 Hyderabad, Telangana, India· Full-time
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AI Tech Lead – Manager Experience- 8-12 years Job Overview: We are seeking a highly experienced AI Tech Lead to design, develop, and deliver scalable AI-driven applications while leading cross-functional teams. The role involves end-to-end ownership of AI solutions, including architecture design, deployment, and optimization, ensuring alignment with business objectives. The candidate will collaborate with stakeholders, data engineering teams, and product management to build enterprise-grade AI systems leveraging modern cloud and AI technologies. Key Responsibilities / (Person Specifications): Lead implementation and delivery of AI applications across teams. Design end-to-end AI architectures integrating open-source and enterprise tools. Translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions. Define architecture roadmaps and best practices. Build data pipelines, CI/CD, and monitoring systems. Deploy scalable systems using Docker and Kubernetes. Ensure performance, scalability, and security. Mentor teams and drive knowledge sharing. Key Skills / Job Specifications (Mandatory): AI frameworks: LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI. Strong Python with TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras. Knowledge of NLP & Deep Learning (RNN, CNN, LSTM, Transformers). Cloud platforms: AWS / Azure / GCP. Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools. Terraform / CloudFormation (IaC). SQL & NoSQL databases. Distributed systems, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices.

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📍 Pune, India· Full-time
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About Us Blueshift is the Intelligent Customer Engagement Platform (CEP), headquartered in San Francisco, that empowers leading B2C brands to drive truly personalized, 1:1 marketing across every channel. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs who previously built Mertado (acquired by Groupon) and were part of the early team at Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), Blueshift leverages AI, including Predictive, Generative, and Agentic AI, to automate customer engagement for clients like ClearScore, LendingTree, Udacity, and U.S. News. Backed by top-tier VCs including Nexus Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, and SoftBank Venture Asia, the company has raised a total of $65 million in venture funding and is consistently recognized as a market leader and a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award recipient. Blueshift is actively scaling its development center in Pune, India. As part of our team, you will drive innovation in cutting-edge technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and large-scale distributed data systems. This is an exciting career path for motivated individuals looking to build complex, impactful solutions that define the future of customer engagement. AI Solutions Engineer II As a Software Engineer in the AI Solutions team , you occupy a unique techno-functional position. You are not a researcher; you are an implementation specialist and problem-solver . You bridge the gap between our core AI infrastructure and real-world customer impact. You aren't just writing code; you are applying data engineering, analysis, and AI knowledge to help global brands realize the full potential of AI-driven marketing. Responsibilities End-to-End Solution Delivery: Lead the full lifecycle of custom AI projects—from initial customer design and technical architecture to testing and production implementation. Production Stewardship: Take ownership of the "last mile" of delivery. This includes triaging technical tickets, analyzing logs (Datadog/Kibana), and deb

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📍 Pune, India
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Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Software Engineering Overview We are seeking a hands-on Manager, Software Engineering to lead the development of scalable data platforms, backend systems, and data pipelines supporting Mastercard's Portfolio Intelligence products. This role will initially focus on leading a team of Data Engineering contractors while providing strong technical leadership across architecture, delivery, and engineering excellence. The ideal candidate is a recent practitioner who has built and operated modern data platforms and backend services, can confidently review architecture proposals and code, and leverages AI-powered engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, and delivery speed. As the team evolves, this leader will play a key role in building and developing a high-performing organization of full-time engineers. What You'll Do Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership for backend services, data pipelines, and platform capabilities that support analytics, reporting, and AI-driven products. Review architecture and design documents to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with long-term platform strategy. Conduct and oversee code reviews, promoting engineering best practices, reliability, security, and operational excellence. <br

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. The Role We are seeking a strategic Senior Analyst - Data & Analytics to champion our people analytics function and shape data-driven talent decisions. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will design, build, and deploy AI-augmented analytics products that drive workforce effectiveness and organizational performance. You bring deep HR domain fluency, a flair for compelling data storytelling, and proven experience turning complex workforce data into strategies that senior leaders actually act on. You will be a key partner to HRIS, IT, and global business leaders — sitting at the intersection of data engineering, business insight, and AI-powered tooling. What You'll Do Lead the full lifecycle of people analytics projects — from gathering stakeholder requirements to delivering scalable, validated, and actionable insights that guide business and talent strategy. Design, build, and deploy executive-ready analytics dashboards by leveraging AI and GenAI tools (including Claude) to rapidly prototype and implement custom web-based solutions — delivering intelligent, self-serve analytics experiences without the constraints of traditional BI platforms. Explore, prototype, and deploy AI powered analytics solutions to support workforce planning, attrition prediction, and people insights at scale. Partner with HRIS, IT, and business leaders to drive data integrity, governance, and seamless integration across core HR system

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE The Senior Manager, Data & Analytics Products owns a portfolio of enterprise-critical Tier 1 products from strategy and discovery through delivery, adoption, service performance, and value realization. The role connects executive and business priorities to product roadmaps and leads across product, data engineering, analytics, governance, architecture, security, operations, and business teams. The ideal candidate is a data and analytics leader with strong product judgment: commercially grounded, technically fluent, practical in the application of AI, and skilled at aligning senior stakeholders and global delivery teams. Success requires the ability to make enterprise data trusted, analytics products useful, and complex strategic programs executable - without requiring hands-on engineering or model development. WHAT YOU'LL DO Tier 1 insights product portfolio strategy. Own the vision, value proposition, target users, product criticality, investment priorities, outcome metrics, and multi-horizon roadmaps for the company's most important data and analytics products. Balance run, grow, and transform priorities across the portfolio. Discovery and product lifecycle. Lead stakeholder interviews, user research, decision-journey and process analysis, and opportunity sizing. Translate important business questions into product requirements, priorities, roadmaps, success measures, and an ongoing improvement a

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Job Title: Project Manager – Data & Analytics Location: Bangalore Role Overview We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to drive Agile delivery for large-scale data and analytics programs. The role requires strong expertise in Scrum, SAFe, and end-to-end delivery management, with a focus on project execution, stakeholder management, and delivering business outcomes. Key Responsibilities Drive end-to-end project/program delivery across data engineering, BI, and analytics initiatives. Act as Scrum Master and facilitate Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives. Manage scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and delivery quality. Lead stakeholder discussions and provide regular updates to senior leadership. Drive continuous improvement and proactively resolve project challenges. Prepare impactful PPTs, dashboards, and executive-level summaries. Work independently and ensure projects are delivered within timelines and quality standards. Required Skills & Experience 8–10+ years of progressive experience in Project/Program Management, with the majority of the career in these roles. Prior experience as a Scrum Master. Strong expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies; SAFe experience is preferred. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior audiences. Strong ownership of project execution, timelines, and quality standards. Proactive problem-solving approach with the ability to take initiative and work independently. Strong presentation skills with the ability to create impactful PPTs and summarize content for senior-level discussions. Working knowledge of Databricks, Snowflake, AWS S3, and AWS Athena. Experience working in data engineering, analytics, or technology environments is preferred. Note: By submitting your application, you consent to being contacted by our Talent Acquisition team via phone call, email, SMS, WhatsApp, or other communication channels regarding your app

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Sigmoid Sigmoid Analytics is a leading Data solutions company backed by Sequoia Capital. We offer best-in-class end-to-end data value chain capabilities spanning Data Science, Data Engineering, and Data Ops. With data and technology at the core of our solutions, we are solving some of the toughest problems out there. Our culture is modelled around expertise and mutual respect with a team-first mindset. You'll work with teams that push the boundaries of what-is-possible and build solutions that energize and inspire. Offices: New York | Dallas | San Francisco | Lima | Bengaluru The below role is for our Bengaluru office. Role: Associate Director - Delivery About the Role You will lead delivery for large-scale Data Engineering programs, working closely with clients to architect and drive execution of modern data platforms - data pipelines, cloud migrations, lakehouse implementations, and real-time data processing solutions. You will own end-to-end delivery governance across multiple engagements, act as a senior escalation point for clients, and provide technical and delivery leadership to teams building enterprise-grade data engineering solutions. If you enjoy operating at the intersection of technical depth in Data Engineering and delivery leadership, we would like to talk to you. Required Skills & Competencies 15-18 years of experience in Project Delivery, Client Engagement, or Data Engineering Delivery Management, with a significant portion focused on Data Engineering programs. Strong hands-on exposure to Data Engineering tools and technologies, including cloud data platforms Proven experience in Analytics/Consulting/IT Services, managing complex Data Engineering project execution, architecture reviews, and governance. Exposure to US/Global clients, with experience handling client escalations. Ability to manage multiple Data Engineering project teams and pods, mentor Delivery/Engineering Managers and technical leads, and drive engineering process improveme

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