Data Platform Operations Lead

Job Title – Data Platform Operations Lead

Preferred Location - Bangalore/Hyderabad, India

Full time/Part Time - Full Time

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Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions is committed to creating solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do

Role Responsibilities:

• Platform Development & Enablement
  Build and maintain scalable, modular services and frameworks for ELT pipelines, data lakehouse processing, integration orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning.
  Enable self-service capabilities for data engineers, platform operators, and integration teams through tools, documentation, and reusable patterns.
  Lead the platform architecture and development of core components such as data pipelines, observability tooling, infrastructure as code (IaC), and DevOps automation.
• Technical Leadership
  Champion platform-first thinking—identifying common needs and abstracting solutions into shared services that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery.
• Own the technical roadmap for platform capabilities across domains such as Apache Iceberg on S3, AWS Glue, Airflow/MWAA, Kinesis, CDK, and Kubernetes-based services.
• Promote design patterns that support real-time and batch processing, schema evolution, data quality, and integration at scale.
• Collaboration & Governance
  Collaborate with Data Engineering, Platform Operations, and Application Integration leaders to ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability across the platform.
  Contribute to FinOps and data governance initiatives by embedding controls and observability into the platform itself.
  Work with Architecture and Security to align with cloud, data, and compliance standards.

Role Purpose:

• 12+ years of experience in software or data platform engineering, with 2+ years in a team leadership or management role.
  Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services (e.g., Glue, Kinesis, S3), data lakehouse architectures (Iceberg), and orchestration tools (Airflow, Step Functions).
  Experience developing infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
  Proven ability to design and deliver internal platform tools, services, or libraries that enable cross-functional engineering teams.
  Demonstrated expertise in Python for building internal tools, automation scripts, and platform services that support ELT, orchestration, and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
  Proven experience leading DevOps teams and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or AWS CodePipeline to support rapid, secure, and automated delivery of platform capabilities.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience with Nexla, Kafka, Spark, or Snowflake.
  Familiarity with data mesh or product-based data architecture principles.
  Track record of promoting DevOps, automation, and CI/CD best practices across engineering teams.
  AWS certifications or equivalent experience preferred.

Benefits

• We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all of our employees and enhancing our programs when necessary.
• Have peace of mind and body with our health insurance
• Make yourself a priority with flexible schedules and leave Policy
• Drive forward your career through professional development opportunities Achieve your personal goals with our Employee Assistance Program.

Our commitment to you

Our greatest assets are the expertise, creativity and passion of our employees. We strive to provide a great place to work that attracts, develops and retains the best talent, promotes employee engagement, fosters teamwork and ultimately drives innovation for the benefit of our customers. We strive to create an environment where you feel that you belong, with diversity and inclusion as the engine to growth and innovation. We develop and deploy best-in-class programs and practices, providing enriching career opportunities, listening to employee feedback and always challenging ourselves to do better.

This is The Carrier Way. Join us and make a difference.

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Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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