Director, Data Platform Engineering

Director, Data Platform Engineering

*This is a Pune, India based role. Working in the office 2-3 days per week isrequired.

About SailPoint:

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job no more, no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right timematching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today's cloud-oriented, modern enterprise.

About the team and role:

The SailPoint Data Platform powers our core Identity Security Cloud, the Identity Graph, and variousanalytics and machinelearning drivenproducts and services across SailPoint.

Our mission is to delivercutting-edge, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, processing, andinteraction, enabling teams to build data-intensive applications with ease and success. This role overseestheData Engineering and Data Presentation groups as part of the SailPoint Data Platform. The teamprovides a fully managed Lakehouse solution powered by Snowflake and Apache Flink, a Service andData Catalog, and various custom-built services to manage data atmassivescale. Our platform supportsboth product and machine learning workloads across SailPoint, serving key products and organizationsincluding Identity Security Cloud, Non-Employee Risk Management, Machine Identity Security, AgentIdentity Security, Data AccessSecurity, andCloud Infrastructure and Entitlement Management.

Additionally, the groupis responsible forData Presentation powering full-text search capabilities in ouruser-facing products as well as Data Governance for ensuring data quality and lineage and is thecustodian of SailPoint's Enterprise Data Model.

We continuously innovate to meet evolving customer needs and market trends. We seek engineeringleaders passionate about building world-class data infrastructure products. In this role, you will lead theSailPoint Data Platform, guiding team members in both technical and professional growth.

You willcollaborate closely with cross-functional teams to lead the planning, execution, and success of technicalprojects, with a focus on enhancing the experience forSailPointsinternal customers. This role requires adeep understanding of scalable data systems, high-performance data pipelines, event streaming, andengineering instincts to turn conceptual data processing ideas into robust, reusable frameworks.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership:

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of software engineers specializing in Flink,Spark, Snowflake, Iceberg,Airflowand related technologies

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvementinlinewith SailPoint's4-Is cultural framework

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting their professionalgrowth

• Conduct performance reviews, provide feedback, andidentifyopportunities for training anddevelopment

• - Manage team workload, prioritize projects, and ensuretimelydelivery of high-quality solutions
  
  

Technical Strategy and Execution:

• Define and execute the technical roadmap for our data platform, aligning with SailPoint's overalldata strategy

• Drive innovation in data processing techniques, exploringnew technologiesand approaches toimprove performance, scalability, and efficiency

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of robust and scalable data pipelines using Flink /Spark,dbt, Airflow and Snowflake / Iceberg

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and security of our data processing infrastructure

• Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate our data processing technologies with otherSailPoint systems and services
  
  

Stakeholder Management:

• Partner with data scientists, data engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders tounderstand their data processing needs and requirements

• Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technicalaudiences

• Advocate for best practices in data processing and engineering;Manage expectations andensure alignment across different teams
  
  

Engineering Thought Leadership:

• Know and evangelize what excellence looks like when it comes to high volume data processing

• Represent SailPoint data platform innovations at external conferences

• Deliver presentations and write blog posts highlighting SailPoint's leadership in big dataprocessing
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of software development experience, with a focus on data processing at scale

• 8+ years ofengineering peoplemanagement experienceleading, mentoring, and growingteams. 3+ years of experience managing engineering managers

• Deepexpertisein open-source data technologies like Apache Flink, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg andOpenSearch

• Hands-on experience with data processing languages such as Java /Scalaand Python

• Deep understanding of data pipeline performance, including partitioning, parallelism, serialization,clustering, scaling, and storage formats

• Strong knowledge of modern data infrastructure including containers, orchestration, cloudcomputing (AWS / GCP / Azure), information retrieval, and distributed systems

• Experience supporting high-volume, low-latency systems in highly regulated environments

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field of study
  
  

About SailPoint India and our Benefits:

Nestled in the heart of Pune, a bustling hub of technology and culture, the office exemplifies SailPoint's commitment to excellence. Surrounded by a vibrant atmosphere, the Pune office serves as a strategic center for the company, wherecutting-edgesolutions are crafted and implemented to address the ever-evolving challenges in identity security. With a team of highly skilled professionals, the office embodies SailPoint's values of Integrity, Innovation,Impactand Individuals.

Our Pune team works under a hybridmodelenjoying the office 2-3 days a week (unless otherwise specified). We provide excellent office amenities, competitivesalariesand strong benefits:

• Our benefits program offers medical insurance for employees and their dependents, accidentinsuranceand term life insurance for all employees. All premiums are paid by SailPoint.

• Company sponsored health-checkups for employees and discounted rates for dependents

• Annual performance bonus

• Private equity at certain levels

• 24 Leaves every year in addition, 10 holidays

• Flexible Work hours

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.

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