Lead and manage the Avis Budget Group India Data Platform Engineering team, providing platform development and operations support within a new centralized global data architecture and engineering framework. You will enforce best practices, governance, and drive automation, efficiency, and performance of the enterprise data platform.

This role requires a resourceful individual, a persistent problem solver, people leader and a strong hands-on engineer who can move around various technology stacks with ease.

What Youll Do :

- Lead configuration and design of database systems and data integration services, ensuring PII, GDPR, encryption, and security best practices.

- Develop and maintain robust data pipelines on AWS and OCI clouds for ingestion, transformation and storage.

- Implement and maintain IBM CDC target environments and Confluent Kafka clusters to meet strong performance requirements.

- Handle data migrations using AWS DMS, ensuring data encryption at rest and in motion with IBM Voltage.

- Drive POCs and rollout of cloud-based solutions with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.

- Oversee data modelling standards, metadata management, and data quality practices across the platform.

- Provide L3 support for critical production systems, enhance observability stacks (Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch) and enforce operational excellence.

- Manage, mentor and coach a team of Data Platform Engineers, fostering a collaborative environment for innovation and growth.

- Engage with global data teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, cost-optimized, and high-impact platform solutions.

Skills you should bring to the table :

- 12+ years of experience in data platform engineering, including 5+ years in a people-management role.

- Advanced expertise in AWS services (RDS, Redshift, DMS, Lambda), OCI cloud data services and infrastructure-as-code.

- Proficiency with IBM CDC replication technologies, Confluent Kafka and IBM Voltage encryption solutions.

- Strong background in data modelling, ETL design, database tuning and big data solutions (NoSQL, streaming).

- Strong expertise in NoSQL database (preferably Couchbase) cluster management, including version upgrades, security patching, performance tuning, and ensuring high availability through node scaling and rebalancing.

- Hands-on experience with Python/Shell scripting, Terraform, CloudFormation and Jenkins-based CI/CD.

- Solid understanding of Linux/Unix environments, networking protocols and production system ownership.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across IST and US East time zones.

Driven People. Performing with Purpose :

- People : We are people driven building an engineering culture, stronger together, improving our diversity of thought, backgrounds and beliefs at every level of our organization.

- Performance : We are performance driven encouraging each other to be at our best through leadership, training, tools, and rewards.

- Purpose : We are purpose driven building modern and innovative products, providing safe and balanced transport solutions that make a difference to the lives of our colleagues, customers and communities.