We are seeking a talented individual to join our Innovation & Data Office (IDO) team, part of our Marsh Tech business at Marsh. This role will be based in Mumbai/Pune. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.
Director – Data Engineering (G)
This is a hands-on leadership role. You lead a squad of data engineers and you also build things yourself. You're the person who can whiteboard a data model in the morning, pair with an engineer on a tricky pipeline in the afternoon and present a delivery plan to a business stakeholder before end of day. You don't just point; you drive.
You'll own technical delivery for priority initiatives within Marsh’s Innovation & Data Office (IDO). Your first assignment will likely be in one of our Mercer businesses (Wealth or Careers), but the expectation is fungibility, not permanent domain alignment. As IDO's priorities evolve, so will yours. The constant is the quality of your engineering leadership, not the label on the work. Your squad will be a mix of employees and contractors,
and you'll be responsible for making that team perform as a unit: setting standards, unblocking problems, mentoring engineers, and holding the bar on quality. The work lands in Databricks. The outcomes land in the business.
The key distinction: This is not a people-management role that happens to involve data. It's a hands-on technical leadership role where managing people is one of the things you do, alongside designing architecture, writing code, reviewing PRs, and solving hard data problems. If your last few years have been spent in meetings about data rather than working with data, this isn't the right fit.
We will count on you to:
• Lead a delivery squad. You'll run a pod of 4-8 data engineers (employees and contractors) assembled against a business outcome. You set the technical direction, decompose work, manage sprint-level execution, and are accountable for what the squad ships. When the ini
📌 Director - Data Engineering (Pune)
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