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We are building and scaling a Data Engineering team in Chennai to deliver the trusted, high-performance data platforms that support our Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and autonomous driving solutions.\nAs the Data Engineering Manager, you will build, lead, and develop a high-performing team responsible for large-scale vehicle, sensor, validation, and engineering data platforms. You will combine people leadership with strong technical depth to define the team’s strategy, architecture, delivery roadmap, and operating model. Working across global engineering, product, AI/ML, MLOps, validation, security, and automotive domain teams, you will ensure that trusted data is discoverable, reliable, secure, cost-efficient, and ready for analytics and machine learning. You will be accountable for team capability, predictable execution, production health, stakeholder outcomes, and the continued growth of the Chennai organisation.\nYour Roles and Responsibilities:\nCore Competencies & Demonstrated Success:\nBuild, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing Data Engineering team in Chennai, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, succession planning, and career development.\nDefine the team’s short- and long-term technical strategy, architecture principles, platform roadmap, and capability plan in alignment with global ADAS, autonomous driving, AI/ML, and product priorities.\nOwn the delivery of scalable batch and streaming platforms that ingest and process vehicle, sensor, API, file, database, and cloud-service data.\nEstablish reusable platform capabilities for ingestion, ETL/ELT, transformation, data modelling, data access, and the creation of analytics-ready and ML-ready datasets.\nProvide technical direction through architecture reviews, design governance, engineering standards, and pragmatic, hands-on guidance for complex data and distributed-systems challenges.\nOwn platform reliability, data quality, observability, security, privacy, retention, lineage, metadata, and compliance outcomes across the data lifecycle.\nDefine service-level objectives, engineering metrics, operational reviews, incident-management practices, and continuous-improvement actions for business-critical data products.\nDrive performance and cloud-cost optimisation across compute, storage, data movement, and query workloads while balancing scalability, resilience, and delivery speed.\nLead quarterly and annual planning, prioritisation, estimation, dependency management, risk mitigation, and predictable execution across multiple workstreams.\nPartner with AI/ML, MLOps, perception, planning, validation, labelling, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, product, and programme teams to translate requirements into maintainable platform capabilities.\nRepresent the Chennai Data Engineering team in global leadership forums, communicate status and trade-offs clearly, and influence cross-functional decisions toward common data-platform outcomes.\nFoster a culture of ownership, inclusion, engineering excellence, customer focus, innovation, knowledge sharing, and disciplined documentation\nYour Background\nBuild, lead, coach, and retain a high-performing Data Engineering team in Chennai, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, succession planning, and career development.\nDefine the team’s short- and long-term technical strategy, architecture principles, platform roadmap, and capability plan in alignment with global ADAS, autonomous driving, AI/ML, and product priorities.\nOwn the delivery of scalable batch and streaming platforms that ingest and process vehicle, sensor, API, file, database, and cloud-service data.\nEstablish reusable platform capabilities for ingestion, ETL/ELT, transformation, data modelling, data access, and the creation of analytics-ready and ML-ready datasets.\nProvide technical direction through architecture reviews, design governance, engineering standards, and pragmatic, hands-on guidance for complex data and distributed-systems challenges.\nOwn platform reliability, data quality, observability, security, privacy, retention, lineage, metadata, and compliance outcomes across the data lifecycle.\nDefine service-level objectives, engineering metrics, operational reviews, incident-management practices, and continuous-improvement actions for business-critical data products.\nDrive performance and cloud-cost optimisation across compute, storage, data movement, and query workloads while balancing scalability, resilience, and delivery speed.\nLead quarterly and annual planning, prioritisation, estimation, dependency management, risk mitigation, and predictable execution across multiple workstreams.\nPartner with AI/ML, MLOps, perception, planning, validation, labelling, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, product, and programme teams to translate requirements into maintainable platform capabilities.\nRepresent the Chennai Data Engineering team in global leadership forums, communicate status and trade-offs clearly, and influence cross-functional decisions toward common data-platform outcomes.\nFoster a culture of ownership, inclusion, engineering excellence, customer focus, innovation, knowledge sharing, and disciplined documentationBonus / Preferable to have\nLeadership experience in ADAS, autonomous driving, automotive, IoT, telemetry, sensor, image, video, or other high-volume engineering-data environments.\nExperience with streaming and messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or Azure Event Hubs.\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, serverless architectures, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.\nExperience with modern data-platform technologies such as Databricks, dbt, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, or equivalent.\nFamiliarity with MLOps platforms, feature or dataset management, ground-truth generation, and data workflows for model training, evaluation, validation, and continuous improvement.\nExperience establishing platform product-management practices, self-service capabilities, and service-level objectives. \nWhy join us?\nYou grow at Aptiv.\nAptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win.\nYou make an impact at Aptiv.\nOne of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.\nYou have support at Aptiv.\nWe ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package.\nYour Benefits at Aptiv:\nHigher Education Opportunities (UDACITY, UDEMY, COURSERA are available for your continuous growth and development);\nLife and accident insurance;\nSodexo cards for food and beverages\nWell Being Program that includes regular workshops and networking events;\nEAP Employee Assistance;\nAccess to fitness clubs (T&C apply);\nCreche facility for working parents;\nMeet the Next-Generation Aptiv:\nAt Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.\nProgress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on-advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.\nGuided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.\nJoin Us to Deliver Innovative Solutions That People Trust!\nApply today, and together let’s change tomorrow!\nPrivacy Notice - Active Candidates: https://www.aptiv.com/privacy-notice-active-candidates\nAptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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