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, DevOps, 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 solid 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:
BigQuery (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 modern data architectures including Lakehouse patterns on GCP and distributed processing

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