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Enterprise Data Products & Data Domains\nLead engineering delivery of trusted, reusable data products across domains.\nPartner with domain owners, business teams, and data architects to establish authoritative sources and integrated data models.\nBuild standardized, governed data products accessible through APIs, events, and analytical interfaces.\nEnable end-to-end data connectivity, traceability, and integration across business processes.\nEstablish engineering practices for data product lifecycle management, versioning, and service-level commitments.\n4. Modern Data Platforms & Engineering\nDrive adoption of modern lakehouse architectures, open table formats, and distributed data processing for on prem air gapped systems and multi cloud hybrid systems.\nEngineer scalable data solutions using technologies such as Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Databricks, and high-performance analytical databases.\nOptimize data processing for performance, scalability, cost, and operational efficiency across hybrid environments.\nEstablish reusable frameworks for ingestion, transformation, data validation, and publishing.\nPartner with platform teams to ensure consistent engineering practices across enterprise data infrastructure.\n5. Data Quality, Reliability & Governance\nEmbed data quality, observability, lineage, and security into engineering workflows by design.\nEstablish automated data validation, reconciliation, anomaly detection, and monitoring.\nDefine and manage service-level objectives for data freshness, completeness, accuracy, and availability.\nPartner with the Data & AI Governance Office to implement classification, access controls, retention, and compliance requirements.\nDrive proactive incident prevention, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of data reliability.\n6. 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