Job Description – Data Platform Engineering Manager
Experience: 10+yrs
Location: Bengaluru
Notice Period: Immediate joiner

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead the design, development, scalability, and operations of a modern cloud-native data platform. This role will drive the architecture and execution of large-scale data processing systems, analytics infrastructure, ML enablement frameworks, and DevOps best practices that power business intelligence, advanced analytics, and rapid product innovation.

As a hands-on engineering leader, you will manage and mentor a high-performing team of Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Cloud Platform Engineers while collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams.

Key Responsibilities

Data Platform & Engineering

- Architect, build, and manage scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms using technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, and Delta Lake.

- Design and optimize batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines to support analytics, reporting, machine learning, and operational use cases.

- Develop scalable data models, ingestion frameworks, and streaming workflows for enterprise-scale data processing.

- Optimize cloud-native data storage and compute solutions using AWS services such as S3, EMR, Glue, Redshift, Athena, and Lambda.

- Integrate and manage modern data stack tools including dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Fivetran, or custom-built connectors.

- Establish strong data governance practices including data quality, lineage, cataloging, metadata management, and observability using tools like Apache Atlas, Excellent Expectations, and Amundsen.

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams to deliver reliable, accurate, and actionable data solutions.





ML & Advanced Analytics Enablement

- Support AI/ML and Data Science teams by maintaining scalable model training, experimentation, and deployment infrastructure.

- Build and manage MLOps pipelines and frameworks using MLflow, SageMaker, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar technologies.

- Enable model versioning, metadata tracking, automated retraining, and real-time inference workflows.

- Ensure scalable and production-ready deployment pipelines for machine learning applications.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

- Lead the implementation of robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, release management, and GitOps practices.

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.

- Manage containerization and orchestration platforms including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).

- Own cloud infrastructure management including networking, security, governance, compliance, and cost optimization initiatives.

- Implement platform monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, DataDog, or equivalent tools.

- Drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including incident management, root cause analysis, retrospectives, and on-call operations.

Leadership & Team Management

- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 8–12 Data Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Platform Engineers.

- Define team objectives, performance metrics, and engineering best practices.

- Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.

- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable and reliable engineering solutions.

- Drive engineering execution, sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery management.

Infrastructure Reliability & Optimization

- Own platform reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across data and infrastructure systems.

📌 Data Platform Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Evnek Technologies
📍 Bengaluru