Lead Data Platform Engineer
Gen Digital5 months ago
Pune, India or Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Co-own and evolve the data platform architecture across all domains.
- Guide the technical vision and standards for the Data Engineering organization.
- Lead modernization of legacy data infrastructure while maintaining business continuity.
- Design scalable platform architectures supporting multi-terabyte daily workloads.
- Design event-driven, real-time data architectures using Kafka and stream processing.
- Build self-service infrastructure for hundreds of data consumers.
- Author and approve RFCs and technical specifications within the domain.
- Architect Infrastructure as Code strategies and GitOps frameworks.
- Design security frameworks covering encryption, zero-trust access controls, and compliance.
- Establish SLAs, SLOs, observability strategies, and platform reliability improvements.
- Lead complex incident response, post-mortems, and systemic remediation.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across teams and domains.
- Collaborate with executives, external stakeholders, and engineering communities.
- Help identify hiring gaps and define interview panels for critical technical roles.
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of professional experience in data platform engineering or a related field.
- Expert proficiency in SQL, Python, and at least one additional programming language.
- Demonstrated mastery of object-oriented design and software engineering principles.
- Deep expertise with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, Oracle, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.
- Extensive Kafka ecosystem experience, including cluster management, Debezium, schema registries, Connect frameworks, and stream processing.
- Advanced experience with Kubernetes and Docker at scale.
- Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and scalability patterns.
- Experience architecting platforms processing multi-terabyte daily workloads and supporting hundreds of concurrent users.
- Expertise with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Jaeger observability stacks.
- Mastery of data orchestration platforms such as Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.
- Experience modernizing legacy data systems without business disruption.
- Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, Informatica, SSIS, and Business Objects.
- Track record of leading complex organization-wide technical initiatives and architectural decisions.
- Ability to influence multiple teams, mentor senior engineers, communicate with executives, and operate in ambiguous environments.
- Recognition as a thought leader in the Data Engineering community is expected.
- Bonus experience includes dbt, Looker, machine learning infrastructure, MLOps architecture, open-source data infrastructure, technical publications or conference talks, and GDPR or CCPA implementation.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSDatadogdbtDockerGrafanaInformaticaJavaKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonScalaSnowflakeSQL
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Gen Digital
Gen Digital is a public consumer cyber safety company that sells subscription software and services for cybersecurity, online privacy, and identity protection under brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCleaner, and ReputationDefender. Formed in 2022 by the merger of NortonLifeLock and Avast, it is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and serves more than 150 countries with a user base approaching 500 million. Revenue comes primarily from direct-to-consumer subscriptions and partnerships.