Data Engineering Manager – E2E Data Platform

At Aptiv, we shape the future of mobility by developing technologies that make vehicles safer, greener, and more connected. We are building and scaling a Data Engineering team in Chennai to deliver the trusted, high-performance data platforms that support our Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and autonomous driving solutions.
As the Data Engineering Manager, you will build, lead, and develop a high-performing team responsible for large-scale vehicle, sensor, validation, and engineering data platforms. You will combine people leadership with solid technical depth to define the team’s strategy, architecture, delivery roadmap, and operating model. Working across global engineering, product, AI/ML, MLOps, validation, security, and automotive domain teams, you will ensure that trusted data is discoverable, reliable, secure, cost-efficient, and ready for analytics and machine learning. You will be accountable for team capability, predictable execution, production health, stakeholder outcomes, and the continued growth of the Chennai organisation.





Your Roles and Responsibilities:
Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success:
- Build, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing Data Engineering team in Chennai, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, succession planning, and career development.
- Define the team’s short- and long-term technical strategy, architecture principles, platform roadmap, and capability plan in alignment with global ADAS, autonomous driving, AI/ML, and product priorities.
- Own the delivery of scalable batch and streaming platforms that ingest and process vehicle, sensor, API, file, database, and cloud-service data.
- Establish reusable platform capabilities for ingestion, ETL/ELT, transformation, data modelling, data access, and the creation of analytics-ready and ML-ready datasets.
- Provide technical direction through architecture reviews, design governance, engineering standar

📌 Data Engineering Manager –E Data Platform (Chennai)
🏢 Aptiv
📍 Chennai