Data Practice Lead

HackerTrail India

About the role

Data Practice Lead

Location: Bangalore, India (office-based)

Experience: 15+ Years

The Role

The Data Practice Lead owns the technical vision, capability building, and presales strategy for OBZ's Data practice — anchoring large-scale opportunities and ensuring what's sold can be delivered.

This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll architect and steer data platforms on AWS, build and scale engineering teams, and be the technical face of the practice in front of clients and senior stakeholders.

What You Will Do

• Practice Leadership – Define the roadmap for OBZ's Data practice, tracking market trends and emerging technologies.
• Platform & Architecture – Architect and oversee data engineering platforms — ingestion, warehousing, and lakehouse — on AWS.
• Team Building – Hire, mentor, and scale a high-performing data engineering team; build a culture of quality, automation, and ownership.
• Innovation & Offerings – Build differentiated solution offerings, use cases, and capability decks that position OBZ as a credible data engineering player.
• Asset Creation – Build reusable frameworks, accelerators, and an internal knowledge base from past projects.
• Solution Architecture – Partner with presales/account leads on medium-to-large opportunities; turn data strategy into proposal narratives.
• Bid Strategy – Own end-to-end proposal development for data-centric RFIs/RFPs.
• Executive Facilitation – Lead client-facing strategy sessions covering solution, delivery approach, and commercial terms.
• Cross-Functional Alignment – Be the bridge between Sales and Delivery — make sure sold scope is deliverable.
• Profitability Management – Own bid pricing and profitability models for Data practice deals.

What you’ll bring

What We Are Looking For

Candidates should meet the following skills and experience requirements:

• 12+ years in Data Engineering or Analytics, including experience leading a practice, COE, or large engineering team (20+).
• Hands-on depth on AWS and modern data engineering stacks — Spark, Databricks, Kafka, and equivalent ingestion/orchestration tools.
• Strong grounding in DevSecOps practices and enterprise data governance (MDM, data quality, cataloging).
• Proven presales experience — RFP/RFI response, solutioning, and CxO-level client engagement.
• Advanced Google Workspace, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Benefits and perks

What We Offer

Competitive compensation aligned to market standards. The opportunity to build and lead a data practice at the center of OBZ's client work across Asia Pacific. Exposure to AWS partnership ecosystems and regulated-industry engineering delivery.

OneByZero is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Skills

Required

AWSSPARKGoogle WorkspaceDevSecOpsKafkaData EngineeringDatabricksData GovernanceCommunication

Nice to have

RfiProposal DevelopmentPowerpointLeadershipExcelData WarehousingSolution ArchitectureTeam buildingPricingPresalesMentoring

Your contact

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Maruthi Gudi