Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a energetic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

Strategic Mandate
As the Engineering Manager, you will lead and grow the engineering organization behind Nielsen's Databricks-based data and AI ecosystem — directly managing the Data Platform team and the AI/Data Engineering team. You are accountable for translating executive strategy into a single, unified roadmap that spans GenAI/data engineering and platform governance,



ensuring these two disciplines operate in lockstep to drive shared business value. Beyond technical direction, you own people leadership, delivery accountability, and budget/FinOps stewardship for the combined Databricks program, and you are the primary point of escalation and executive stakeholder engagement when priorities, risks, or trade-offs span both teams
Core Goals & Responsibilities
- Org & People Leadership: Directly manage the AI/Data Engineering and Data Platform teams; own hiring, mentoring, performance management, career development, and career planning.
- Unified Technical Strategy: Shape a single, prioritized engineering plan that brings together GenAI and data-engineering priorities with platform, governance, and FinOps commitments.
- Delivery & Execution Accountability: Set OKRs, manage program/sprint cadences, and own end-to-end delivery accountability for the combined engineering organization — resolvi

📌 Senior Manager, Data Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 The Nielsen
📍 Bengaluru