About the Role:
We are seeking a highly customer-obsessed, AI-first, and growth-oriented technology leader to join as Associate Director to lead the architecture, delivery, and operations of our Corporate Data cloud ecosystem and intelligent automation platforms.
This leader will bring a use-case driven mindset, ensuring technology solutions are directly aligned to measurable business outcomes. They will champion metric-driven productivity, drive global scalability, and build highly available, resilient systems.
As a people-first leader and effective communicator, you will guide and inspire distributed teams while fostering innovation, accountability, and continuous learning. You will also play a critical role in shaping an AI-first, data-driven organization, leveraging modern architectures and emerging technologies to unlock business value.
Responsibilities:
Customer & Business Impact
- Demonstrate Customer Obsessionby deeply understanding business needs and translating them into scalable, high-impact technology solutions
- Drive use-case management discipline, ensuring all initiatives are clearly defined, prioritized, and tied to business value realization
- Partner with global stakeholders across Business Units to deliver solutions aligned to strategic outcomes
Technology & AI Leadership
- Lead the design and implementation of cloud data platforms/products, analytics, and agentic AI solutions
- Champion an AI-first mindset, identifying opportunities to embed intelligence, automation, and predictive capabilities into the ecosystem
- Stay tech-aware, bringing thought leadership in emerging technologies, modern data architectures, and cloud innovation
Execution Excellence & Metrics
- Establish and continuously improve metric-driven productivity frameworks, including KPIs, SLAs, and OKRs across delivery and operations
- Ensure high availability, scalability, security, and performanceof all systems
- Drive data-driven decision-making, using operational metrics to optimize delivery quality and efficiency
Leadership & Talent Development
- Act as a strong People Leader, building, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineering teams
- Foster a culture of growth, ownership, and continuous improvement
- Provide coaching, career development, and leadership guidance across teams
Collaboration & Communication
- Be an effective communicator, aligning cross-functional stakeholders across architecture, security, QA, and operations
- Lead globally distributed teams with a Global Thinker mindset, ensuring solutions scale across regions and business units
- Clearly articulate technical strategies and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
Governance & Delivery
- Define and enforce engineering standards, design guidelines, and governance frameworks
- Oversee all phases of delivery-from architecture through production support
- Ensure consistent adherence to quality, security, and compliance requirements
Required Experience
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience
- 10-12+ years of broad IT experience in enterprise data and cloud ecosystems
- 8-10 years of hands-on experience designing and building cloud data platforms(Snowflake, Informatica IDMC or similar)
- 3+ years of experience as a People Leader managing technical teams
- Proven track record of delivering highly available, scalable, and resilient systems
Technical Expertise
- Strong experience in:
- Cloud data warehousing and data engineering
- Dimensional modeling, data mesh, and modern data architectures
- SQL and Python development
- Data integration, governance, and information management
Preferred Leadership Traits
- Customer-Obsessed:Relentless focus on delivering customer value
- Use-Case Driven:Prioritizes outcomes over outputs
- Metric-Oriented:Drives accountability through measurable results
- Effective Communicator:Clear, concise, and influential communicator
- People Leader:Builds strong, empowered, and diverse teams
- Global Thinker:Designs for scale across geographies and markets
- AI-First:Leverages AI/ML as a foundational capability
- Tech-Aware:Continuously evolves with emerging technologies
- Growth-Oriented:Committed to continuous improvement and innovation
- Highly Available Leader:Ensures systems and teams operate with resilience and reliability
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