Director of Data Engineering and platforms at jiostar

About the Role

We are looking for a Director of Data Engineering and Platforms to lead and scale high-performing engineering teams responsible for building and operating mission-critical data infrastructure. This role blends people leadership, technical depth, delivery ownership, and strategic influence to power platforms handling hundreds of millions of requests per minute and billions of real-time events daily.

Key Responsibilities

• →Lead, hire, mentor, and grow high-performing data platform engineering teams
• →Provide technical direction and architectural oversight for large-scale, real-time data platforms
• →Own end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives ensuring predictable execution and high system reliability
• →Partner with Product, AI/ML, Analytics, and Business stakeholders to translate business goals into scalable platform outcomes
• →Drive cost efficiency, scalability, and data governance while improving time-to-insight and business decision-making
• →Ensure data platforms support AI/ML workloads, MCP services, and real-time personalization
• →Drive operational excellence through monitoring, incident management, SLAs, and post-mortems
• →Influence platform strategy through data-driven insights and clear communication