Role Summary
As Director, you will lead a high-performing team responsible for building and operating scalable data platform components within Deutsche Telekom’s Unified Data Platform. You will drive execution, ensure engineering excellence, and contribute to the evolution of a cloud-native, AI-ready data ecosystem serving multiple countries.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of engineers to deliver scalable, reliable data platform capabilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of platform components (design → build → run) with clear accountability for quality, performance, and reliability
- Partner with Product Managers to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
- Contribute to and implement target data architecture aligned with enterprise standards
- Drive best practices in data engineering, Dev Ops, and platform reliability
- Ensure systems are built with observability, cost efficiency, and scalability in mind
- Collaborate with domain teams and region specific (LOB) teams to enable reusable data products and standardized platform capabilities




- Identify and resolve systemic issues, focusing on long-term engineering health
- Evaluate new technologies and lead proof-of-concepts where required
- Build strong engineering culture with focus on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
Data & Technical Expertise
- 14+ years of overall experience with 8+ years in data engineering, data platforms, or distributed data systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), especially:
- Big Query (data warehousing, performance tuning, cost optimization, partitioning/clustering)
- Dataflow (Apache Beam) for large-scale batch and streaming pipelines
- Pub/Sub for real-time ingestion and event-driven architectures
- Cloud Composer (Airflow) for orchestration and workflow management
- GCS (Cloud Storage) as part of lakehouse or staging architectures
- Deep understanding of up-to-date data architectures including Lakehouse patterns

📌 Director - Data Engineering (Gurugram)
🏢 Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs
📍 Gurugram