Role Purpose:

Senior Engineering Manager/Associate Director – Data Platform & Data Services will own the enterprise data foundation, data services, and AI-first analytics ecosystem. This role is responsible for building a trusted, compliant, and scalable data platform that powers business insights, AI use cases, regulatory reporting, and customer commitments.

The responsibilities we entrust you

Key Responsibilities – Data Platform Ownership & Strategy

• Own end-to-end data platform strategy across ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and access.
• Define architecture for batch, streaming, and near-real-time data.
• Ensure cloud-native, resilient, and AI-ready platforms.

AI-First Data Services & Analytics
• Enable AI-first data services including curated datasets, metrics layers, and data APIs.
• Support AI/ML and GenAI use cases with high-quality governed data.
• Drive self-serve analytics and NLP-based data exploration.

Data Governance, Privacy & Regulatory Compliance
• Own data governance frameworks including lineage, quality, and access controls.




• Ensure compliance with data privacy, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Security teams.

Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence
• Ensure high availability and SLA compliance.
• Establish observability, monitoring, and incident response.
• Optimize platform cost and performance.

Leadership & Talent Development
• Build and lead data engineering and platform teams.
• Establish standards, reviews, and career paths.
• Foster AI-first culture.

Senior Stakeholder Partnership
• Partner with CXOs and senior business leaders.
• Translate regulatory and business needs into sca

Whar matters in this role:
Experience & Portfolio:

• 12-15 years experience in data platforms or data engineering.
• Sr EM-level leadership experience.
• Robust regulatory, compliance, and data privacy exposure.
• Experience in regulated environments.
• AI / ML platform exposure preferred.

📌 Senior Engieering Manager/Associate Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pine Labs
📍 Bengaluru