Description We're hiring a Director of Data Engineering to lead our Marketing Technology Data Engineering team. You'll take over ownership of a strong, established senior engineering bench and set technical direction for the data platforms powering marketing analytics, attribution, and activation across the business. This is a director-level role reporting into the Director, Marketing Technology and Engineering, with direct people management of senior data engineers.

What You'll Do Technical Leadership

- Architect, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows
- Design and optimize data models across warehouse and lakehouse environments
- Partner with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality data products
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices, code review standards, and documentation norms
- Evaluate and champion new data technologies and frameworks

People Management
- Directly manage 3+ Senior Data Engineers, providing mentorship, coaching, and career development support
- Set clear goals, conduct regular 1:1s, and lead performance reviews
- Foster a cooperative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture
- Partner with recruiting to grow the team as needed

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with stakeholders across Marketing Technology, Analytics, and Engineering to align on priorities
- Represent Data Engineering in planning, budget,



and roadmap discussions with senior stakeholders
- Own the DE support intake process (e.g., MOpsBot-routed requests) and ensure SLAs are met
- Translate business requirements from Marketing, Analytics, and Data Science stakeholders into technical execution plans

What We're Looking For

- 12+ years of data engineering experience, including significant time in cloud data warehouse/lakehouse architecture
- 6+ years of people management experience, ideally managing senior/staff-level engineers
- Deep proficiency in SQL and Python; strong grasp of dimensional modeling and warehouse design
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and lakehouse table formats (Iceberg or similar); pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, or similar)
- Experience integrating third-party marketing/ad platform data (e.g., Demandbase, Meta, Google Ads, LinkedIn) a strong plus
- Track record setting engineering standards and governance policy (access control, separation of duties) across teams
- Excellent stakeholder communication — comfortable driving alignment with both engineering and non-technical marketing leadership
- Based in or willing to relocate to Hyderabad

Nice To Have

- Experience in Marketing Technology or CRM data ecosystems
- Familiarity with Salesforce platform and Marketing Cloud data structures
- Experience working in a globally distributed team

📌 Director, Data Engineering (Hyderabad)
🏢 SalesForce-ad
📍 Hyderabad