Lead Data Services Engineer

Experienced Data Engineering leader driving enterprise-scale GCP data platforms, distributed systems, and developer enablement through modern cloud-native architectures.

Prospect to be one of our first team members in Woolworths Group India in Bangalore.

Woolworths Group India is partnering exclusively with Zinnov Group to recruit for this position

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Purpose

As a Lead Data Services Engineer at Woolworths Group, you will provide technical leadership for our enterprise-scale data ecosystem, shaping the future of modern data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering practices. You will drive the design and delivery of scalable, low-latency, event-driven data solutions while enabling engineering teams through reusable frameworks, self-service tooling, and platform standardisation. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with data platform strategy, operational excellence, AI-enabled solutions, and engineering leadership.

You will work closely with Product Managers, Architects, Analytics teams, and engineering leaders across ANZ and India to modernize data services and deliver business-critical outcomes across Woolworths' global technology landscape.

Scope

This role carries technical stewardship of Woolworths' core Data Services platform and Information Management (IM) ecosystem. You will lead architecture decisions, define engineering standards, oversee platform reliability, and drive adoption of cloud-native technologies across multiple squads. You will be responsible for ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions while championing software engineering excellence, product-centric thinking, platform governance, and operational readiness.

What you'll do

- Drive Product Vision & Data Platform Strategy: Define and champion the strategic product vision for Data Services, treating data infrastructure, APIs, ingestion frameworks, and platform capabilities as internal products. Build and maintain engineering roadmaps that align platform evolution, feature delivery, and technical debt reduction with business priorities.
- Lead Architecture & Distributed Systems Design: Design and implement resilient batch, streaming, and event-driven architectures leveraging GCP services including BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, and Memorystore. Drive best practices in distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Enable Developer Productivity & Platform Standardisation: Build reusable ingestion frameworks, self-service tooling, internal SDKs, and standardised data contracts that empower squads to deliver solutions faster while maintaining governance and consistency across the platform.
- Champion Software Engineering & Cloud Native Practices:



Lead CI/CD implementation, Infrastructure-as-Code adoption using Terraform, containerization strategies, automated testing frameworks, and deployment automation across development and production environments.
- Drive Reliability, Governance & Operational Excellence: Establish SRE principles including SLOs, latency SLAs, observability, monitoring, distributed tracing, data lineage, security controls, and FinOps practices. Ensure enterprise-grade reliability, governance, and operational readiness across all platform services.
- Lead, Mentor & Collaborate Across Teams: Mentor engineers, conduct architecture and code reviews, establish engineering standards, and lead cross-functional squads. Partner with Product Managers, Architects, Analytics teams, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Advance AI & Next-Generation Data Solutions: Leverage AI technologies, GenAI infrastructure, and intelligent automation to solve complex data challenges, accelerate engineering productivity, and enable innovative data-serving capabilities.
- Ensure End-to-End Quality & Service Transition: Oversee automated testing strategies, release governance, change management processes, operational documentation, and service transition activities to ensure platform solutions are production-ready and fully supported.

What you'll bring

- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Experience: 6+ years of software and data engineering experience, including 4+ years of hands-on GCP architecture experience and 3+ years in a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or Platform Leadership role.
- GCP & Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep knowledge of BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, GKE, Bigtable, Memorystore, IAM, and modern distributed system architectures.
- Software Engineering Excellence: Strong hands-on experience with Python and Go (or Java/Scala), advanced SQL optimisation, microservices architecture, event-driven systems, API development, and cloud-native engineering.
- DevOps & Infrastructure Automation: Strong experience in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes/GKE, Git, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, automated testing, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Product & Platform Mindset:



Demonstrated success in building shared platforms, establishing self-service capabilities, managing engineering roadmaps, and delivering scalable enterprise solutions.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Proven ability to lead engineering squads, mentor team members, influence technical direction, and collaborate effectively across distributed global teams.
- Certifications: Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is mandatory.

What you'll experience

- Be a part of Australia's largest retailer.
- Work on large-scale global data and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Opportunity to influence next-generation data platform architecture.
- Collaborate with highly skilled engineering teams across ANZ and India.
- A flexible and inclusive working environment.
- Continuous learning, mentoring, and career growth opportunities.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

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📌 Lead Data Service Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Woolworths Group
📍 Bengaluru