Job Title : Data Practice Lead

About the Company

OneByZero is a Frontier Systems Integrator building agentic AI systems for leading banks, telecommunications companies, insurers, and retailers across Asia Pacific. We work on high-impact problems for institutions operating the financial and digital infrastructure of the region. We operate exclusively on AWS and leverage partnership programmes that provide co-sell reach, funded innovation opportunities, and delivery credibility across multiple markets. We value individuals who are technically solid, delivery-focused, collaborative, and committed to solving complex engineering challenges.

About the Role

The Data Practice Lead owns the technical vision, capability building, and presales strategy for OBZ's Data practice — anchoring large-scale opportunities and ensuring what's sold can be delivered. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll architect and steer data platforms on AWS, build and scale engineering teams, and be the technical face of the practice in front of clients and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

- Practice Leadership – Define the roadmap for OBZ's Data practice, tracking market trends and emerging technologies.
- Platform & Architecture – Architect and oversee data engineering platforms — ingestion, warehousing, and lakehouse — on AWS.
- Team Building – Hire, mentor, and scale a high-performing data engineering team; build a culture of quality, automation, and ownership.
- Innovation & Offerings – Build differentiated solution offerings, use cases, and capability decks that position OBZ as a credible data engineering player.
- Asset Creation – Build reusable frameworks, accelerators, and an internal knowledge base from past projects.




- Solution Architecture – Partner with presales/account leads on medium-to-large opportunities; turn data strategy into proposal narratives.
- Bid Strategy – Own end-to-end proposal development for data-centric RFIs/RFPs.
- Executive Facilitation – Lead client-facing strategy sessions covering solution, delivery approach, and commercial terms.
- Cross-Functional Alignment – Be the bridge between Sales and Delivery — make sure sold scope is deliverable.
- Profitability Management – Own bid pricing and profitability models for Data practice deals.

Qualifications

- 12+ years in Data Engineering or Analytics, including experience leading a practice, COE, or large engineering team (20+).
- Hands-on depth on AWS and modern data engineering stacks — Spark, Databricks, Kafka, and equivalent ingestion/orchestration tools.
- Strong grounding in DevSecOps practices and enterprise data governance (MDM, data quality, cataloging).
- Proven presales experience — RFP/RFI response, solutioning, and CxO-level client engagement.
- Advanced Google Workspace, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Required Skills

- Deep, hands-on AWS experience across large-scale data platforms.
- A track record of building a data practice or COE from the ground up.
- Experience across regulated, enterprise domains such as BFSI, retail, telecom, or insurance.

Preferred Skills

- Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
- Strong communication skills are important for engaging C-level stakeholders, presales teams, and delivery leadership across markets.

Why OneByZero

OneByZero delivers production-scale agentic AI systems within some of the most complex enterprise environments across Asia Pacific. This role is an opportunity to shape a practice from a position of real influence — owning the architecture, the team, and the deals that define it.

📌 Data Practice Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 OneByZero
📍 Bengaluru