Data Operations Lead
ChennaiFull-time7–13 yrsPosted open since apr 2026
Senior operations role at WPP in Chennai. Needs 7+ years.
About the role
As Data Operations Lead , you will establish and head our new Data Integration & Operations team in Chennai. you'll define how the team operates while leading day-to-day delivery of operational excellence across global data products. You will be the custodian of production —owning the operational layer including CI/CD automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, data quality enforcement, incident management, and support.
What you'll do
- Technical Ownership & Execution
- Lead the team responsible for data integration, orchestration, and platform operations across Azure and GCP environments
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Databricks Asset Bundles for data workflows
- Design platform-wide monitoring, logging, and alerting covering pipeline execution, data quality, SLA compliance, and cost
- Manage production deployments and own centralized job orchestration via Databricks Jobs/Workflows (scheduling, dependencies, retries, notifications)
What you need
- SQL
- CI/CD
- Databricks
- GCP
- Azure
- Terraform
Good to have
- Power BI
- VBA
- dbt
- Unity
- Test automation
- Python