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.

Job Description:

CORE SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

DATABRICKS & DATA ENGINEERING

* Deep, hands-on Databricks expertise: Spark, Delta Lake,



Unity Catalog,
Lakeflow / Delta Live Tables, Medallion architecture, and performance tuning.
* Expert-level SQL and strong Python for data engineering; production
experience building and operating pipelines at scale.
* Solid grasp of data modeling, orchestration, data quality, and governance —
building for reuse and maintainability, not one-off delivery.
* Experience with the surrounding ecosystem (Azure, lightweight ETL / data-prep
tooling such as Trifacta or dbt) is a strong plus.

AI-ASSISTED DATA DEVELOPMENT

* Hands-on experience developing data solutions with AI tooling — Databricks
Genie, GitHub / Databricks Copilot, Claude Code, or comparable AI coding
agents.
* Able to use AI assistants to accelerate pipeline build, transformation logic,
and debugging while maintaining correctness, governance, and quality.
* A builder's mindset: comfortable pairing with AI tools as a force multiplier
for the team

📌 Director - Business Intelligence (Chennai)
🏢 dentsu
📍 Chennai