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Mumbai · On-site · 8-11 Yrs · Oct 26
Research and development · 1001 to 5000 Employees · Mumbai, India
CRISIL is a global, agile and innovative analytics company driven by its mission of making markets function better. It is majority owned by S&P Global Inc., a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide. CRISIL pioneered, and continues to lead the credit ratings industry in India. Today, it is also a leading provider of data, research, analytics and solutions to over 100,000 customers globally. A strong track record of growth, culture of innovation and global footprint sets the organisation apart. CRISIL businesses and delivery centers are spread across the world, including India, the US, the UK, Argentina, Poland, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The driving force behind CRISIL is its 4000 young, energetic, diverse and highly talented workforce. Guided by a culture that values integrity, excellence, respect, accountability and teamwork, CRISILites get an opportunity to work with peers across countries, interact with clients across geographies and move roles across functions. It gives them the opportunity to work on leading technologies, learn new skills and collaborate with the sharpest minds in the industry. CRISIL believes in recognizing good work and winning performances, taking pride it in robust rewards and recognition program. After all, meritocracy is a way of life at the organisation. An equal opportunity employer, CRISIL provides an inclusive work environment where diversity of thought and action is valued – and encouraged. Religion, age, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, race, or colour does not affect hiring, promotion, compensation, or development opportunities. Committed to employee well-being, CRISIL offers a host of benefits including flexible work arrangements, sabbaticals, health and retirial benefits, employee assistance programs and many others. CRISIL is also certified as a Great Place to Work by the Great Place to Work India Institute. If you aspire to re-define industry standards, collaborate with the best and work to make markets function better, CRISIL has a role for you. To know more, search for current opportunities, follow us on Instagram @lifeatcrisil or simply join our Talent Community.
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Overview
Senior Data Engineering Manager About the Role
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of the Databricks data platform and establish engineering standards across all data engineering initiatives.
- Lead architecture and design decisions for enterprise-scale data products and platform capabilities.
- Define reference architectures, reusable design patterns, and engineering guardrails for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, observability, and deployment.
- Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.
- Lead, coach, and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering technical growth and engineering excellence.
- Drive engineering best practices through code reviews, technical design reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
- Promote a culture of quality, ownership, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, capability development, and succession planning within the engineering team.
- Serve as the organisation's subject matter expert for Databricks and Lakehouse architecture.
- Drive adoption of Databricks capabilities including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, Lakeflow, SQL Warehouses, Serverless Compute, and emerging platform capabilities.
- Define the roadmap for platform optimisation, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Partner with enterprise architecture to shape future-state data platform strategy.
- Lead implementation of enterprise data governance standards using Unity Catalog and associated governance capabilities.
- Ensure secure, compliant, and auditable data access patterns across all environments.
- Define policies and standards for metadata management, lineage, data quality, and regulatory compliance.
- Lead technical delivery of strategic data transformation initiatives and migration programmes.
- Work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and business stakeholders to translate business outcomes into technical solutions.
- Manage technical dependencies, risks, and architectural decisions across multiple workstreams.
- Ensure solutions are delivered to agreed standards for performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Establish and maintain DevOps and DataOps standards across the platform.
- Lead CI/CD adoption, Infrastructure-as-Code implementation, automated testing, release governance, and operational monitoring.
- Drive platform observability, performance optimisation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
Qualifications
- 8-12 years' experience in Data Engineering, including significant experience leading engineering teams and driving large-scale data platform initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience as a Lead Data Engineer, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior engineering position.
- Proven experience architecting and delivering modern data platforms using Databricks.
- Deep expertise in Apache Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL, Scala).
- Expert-level knowledge of Delta Lake and Lakehouse architecture patterns.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Strong experience with cloud-native data platforms, ideally AWS.
- Proven expertise implementing Unity Catalog and enterprise governance frameworks.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and data architecture principles.
- Experience implementing modern DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, and automated testing practices.
- Ability to lead and influence engineering teams without compromising hands-on technical credibility.
- Experience shaping engineering operating models, standards, and governance processes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across business, technology, architecture, and executive audiences.
- Proven ability to influence senior leadership and drive strategic technology decisions.
Nice to have
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.
- Databricks Certified Lakehouse Platform Architect.
- Experience with MLOps and AI Engineering platforms.
- Experience leading enterprise migration programmes from legacy data platforms.
- Financial Services, Data Analytics, Benchmarking, or Information Services industry experience.
- Experience working in scaled Agile environments and PI Planning.
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Last updated 9 November 2026
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