The Manager, Data Platform is responsible for leading and scaling our data platform team in Bangalore.

This role is critical to building and maintaining a robust, secure, and scalable data infrastructure that powers our healthcare SaaS solutions.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams to ensure data availability, integrity, and performance across the organization.

Duties & Responsibilities :

Leadership & Strategy :

- Manage and mentor a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and platform specialists.

- Define and execute the roadmap for the data platform aligned with business objectives.

- Drive adoption of best practices for data architecture, governance, security, and automation.

Platform Development & Operations :

- Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and maintenance of robust data pipelines, storage solutions, and processing frameworks.

- Drive the creation and deployment of scalable data lakes and advanced analytics platforms to enable enterprise-wide insights.

- Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of data infrastructure.

- Implement monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery strategies for data systems.

- Own and drive the resolution of technical debt to support delivery and long-term product health

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management :

- Partner with product, engineering and operations teams to support data-driven features and analytics.

- Work closely with compliance teams to ensure adherence to healthcare data regulations (HIPAA, GDPR).

Innovation & Continuous Improvement :

- Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to enhance the data platform.

- Optimize cost and performance of cloud-based data solutions.

- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Perform other duties as assigned

Skills Required :

- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.

- 11 - 14 years of total experience in software engineering including 8+ years in data engineering or platform roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership position.

- Proven experience in building and managing large-scale data platforms in a SaaS environment.

- Expertise in leading cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Deep understanding of data warehousing, ETL workflows, and distributed computing architectures.

- Hands-on and proficient in SQL and Python, with expertise in big data technologies such as Spark and Hadoop.

- Extensive experience with modern data technologies and orchestration tools, such as Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS services.

- Experience working with a distributed development team and demonstrated knowledge of Agile Scrum methodology

- Ability to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility

- Effective, clear, and concise communication skills and the ability to interface with leaders and staff at both an individual and group level

Desired Skills And Qualifications :

- Familiarity with healthcare IT standards and compliance requirements

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

- Passion for building scalable, secure, and innovative data solutions.

- Experience in building self-service analytics platforms.

- Exposure to machine learning pipelines and MLOps.

- Prior experience in a product-led or SaaS company.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.

Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor