Job Summary

Lead the strategy, architecture and delivery of secure, scalable and resilient enterprise data platforms and AI-enabled solutions. The role combines deep data engineering expertise, applied AI leadership and end-to-end delivery accountability, translating business priorities into governed data products and production-ready AI capabilities while influencing product, architecture, security, risk, operations and engineering stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior individual contributor with technical leadership and delivery accountability for enterprise data engineering and AI-enabled solutions.
• Define and deliver contemporary data architectures covering ingestion, transformation, storage, processing, serving and consumption across batch, streaming and API-based patterns.
• Lead the design and engineering of governed data products, reusable pipelines and curated datasets using cloud and distributed data technologies.
• Shape and deliver AI and machine learning use cases, including data preparation, feature engineering, model integration,



generative AI patterns and responsible AI controls.
• Establish engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, DataOps/MLOps, CI/CD, observability, performance optimisation and production support.
• Own delivery planning and execution across scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, quality, operational readiness and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders, product owners and domain teams to define priorities, value measures, roadmaps and acceptance criteria.
• Influence architecture, cyber security, data governance, model risk, privacy and operations stakeholders by communicating options, trade-offs and recommendations.

People and Talent (for People Leader roles only)

Build and lead a high-performing, inclusive data engineering and AI team. Set clear objectives and delivery expectations aligned to business priorities, and hold colleagues accountable for outco

📌 VP - Lead Data Engineer, AI & Delivery (Chennai)
🏢 Standard Chartered India
📍 Chennai