Position: Engineering Manager – Data Platform

The company is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Data Platform team for a fast-growing digital lending fintech. This team builds the core data infrastructure and reporting foundation used across lending, risk, collections, finance, operations, and leadership decision-making.

This role is ideal for a leader who can combine strong engineering management with deep technical understanding of big data platforms, reporting systems, and secure data operations in a regulated environment. The role will partner closely with product, business, risk, and compliance stakeholders to build reliable, scalable, and trusted data capabilities that support rapid growth.

Responsibilities

- Lead and grow a team building the company’s core data platform and reporting systems.

- Define and execute the platform roadmap for data ingestion, transformation, storage, access, and reporting.

- Build resilient batch and real-time pipelines for lending, repayment, portfolio, and customer analytics use cases.

- Ensure strong controls for data quality, lineage, privacy, security, and platform reliability.

- Partner with risk, finance, operations, product, and analytics teams to deliver trusted business data products.

- Improve observability, CI/CD, engineering practices, and on-call readiness across the platform.

- Scale the team through hiring,



mentoring, and strong performance management.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or MCA

- 8+ years of engineering experience with at least 3+ years in engineering leadership.

- Strong experience with large-scale data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering.

- Strong experience with Spark on EMR, Databricks, Snowflake, Oozie workflows, Athena ad-hoc querying, Kafka, Airflow orchestration, Hadoop ecosystem, S3/cloud storage, lakehouse/warehouse platforms**

- Expertise in SQL, Python or Java or Scala, data modelling, ETL or ELT, and BI or reporting systems.

- Experience in fintech, lending, payments, banking, or similarly regulated domains is strongly preferred.

Strong ability to work across technical and business teams in a fast-paced growth setting.

Good to have skills

- Loan funnel reporting, disbursal and repayment analytics, delinquency and collections metrics.

- Fraud and risk data products for underwriting and monitoring.

- Finance and compliance reporting with auditable, well-governed datasets.

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

27-08-2026

Job ID

639

Department

Technology

Location

Bangalore, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Experience

9 - 13 Years

Employee Type

Full-time

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