Job Description:

Director, Data Engineering

Data Experience (DEx)

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Dentsu Global Services (DGS)

Team: Data Experience (DEx) — Data Engineering

Reports to: Practice Lead / Group Lead, Data Engineering

Level: Director (DGS)

Location: Offshore (DGS, India)

Employment: Dentsu Global Services

About The Role

The Data Experience (DEx) practice builds the data foundations, pipelines, and products that power Dentsu's media and marketing effectiveness work across Carat, iProspect, and Dentsu X. We are seeking a Director, Data Engineering to lead our offshore (DGS) engineering capability — owning the architecture, quality, and delivery of the data platform that everything downstream depends on.

This is a senior leadership and hands-on engineering role. You will set the standard for how DEx ingests, models, and serves media and marketing data on Databricks, and you will do it as a contemporary practitioner — using AI-assisted data development (Databricks Genie, Copilot, Claude Code) to move faster and raise quality.



You will lead and mentor a team of DGS engineers while staying close enough to the code to set the bar yourself. This role demands deep Databricks expertise and a genuine understanding of what media data means, not just how to move it.

What You'll Do

Lead the offshore (DGS) Data Engineering team — setting architecture and delivery standards, reviewing code and design, mentoring engineers, and owning quality across the portfolio.
Own the Databricks Lakehouse end to end: ingestion, Medallion (bronze/silver/gold) modeling, Unity Catalog governance, Lakeflow pipelines, and performance.
Design and build robust, scalable pipelines that bring together media and marketing data from many platforms into governed, analytics-ready datasets.
Drive adoption of AI-assisted data development across the team — using Databricks Genie, Copilot, and Claude Code to accelerate pipeline build, transformation, and debugging without sacrificing rigor.
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📌 Director - Data Engineering (Chennai)
🏢 Dentsu Global Services
📍 Chennai