Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.
We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.
Why phData?
- Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year
- AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network
- 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year)
- 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status
- 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year
- Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network
- #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications
- 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)
- Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM
At phData, the Product Engineering team develops a suite of tools, known as the Toolkit, to automate and simplify essential data engineering and AI/ML engineering tasks. We focus on producing high-quality, reliable, and effective tools. Our tools are used both internally by our own engineers and externally by our clients.
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our India Product Engineering team members and Platform Operations, driving the execution of delivery goals, developing tools and automation under the phData Toolkit, and ensuring operational excellence across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Snowflake. This role requires hands-on technical leadership through development, code reviews, and user support for our products, while collaborating closely with US leadership and partnering with the IT team to achieve security and compliance objectives. The Engineering Manager will play a critical role in building and retaining a high-performing team in India, balancing technical depth, people leadership, and compliance responsibilities in support of Information Security and compliance audits.
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Technical Oversight and Hands-on Leadership: Oversee delivery and provide technical guidance to the product engineering team while collaborating with US leadership on roadmap and priorities, occasionally contributing hands-on to drive execution.
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Cloud and data platform oversight and leadership (AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake): Lead architecture, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, access management, approvals, and cost optimization across multi-cloud and Snowflake environments. Oversee RBAC on Snowflake and other internal environments, define policies, and build and maintain internal infrastructure. Provide advice and best practices to teams building internal cloud infrastructure as well as customer environments.
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IT collaboration on processes and access: Collaborate closely with the IT team on access control, cloud environment changes, and access approval workflows, provisioning / deprovisioning guardrails. Assist with customer security questionnaires, co-author and maintain platform and security policies/ standards, and participate in periodic infrastructure reviews, patching, and vulnerability management. Ensure that all processes and changes align with the organization's information security requirements.
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Security and Compliance: Ensure security and compliance by following standards, improving security posture, and managing vulnerabilities, access, and privacy according to Information Security policies and SOC 2 controls. Collaborate with teams to identify and resolve security issues across cloud environments, applications, databases, code, domains, and email settings.
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Product and Project Management: Identify opportunities to deepen cross-department partnerships and expand joint solution offerings. Able to gather and synthesize feedback from internal teams and track and drive projects to completion.
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Cross-Functional Leadership and Tooling Initiatives: Lead and support tool integrations, if any, and POCs, contribute to company-wide initiatives, and drive activities such as documentation, automation, cleanups, and training. Collaborate closely with US-based leadership, Product, Security, IT, and Customer teams, as well as India practice leaders, to gather feedback, improve products
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Team Leadership and Mentorship (India): Mentor and manage a team of engineers in India, ensuring high engagement, defining career paths, and helping with skill development. Hire and onboard team members as needed and maintain low attrition while building a strong, effective team.
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Ownership and execution: Bias to action, high accountability, and an end-to-end delivery mindset
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Technical depth: Ability to dive into architecture while guiding and setting direction for the team
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People leadership: Coaching, career growth advocacy, and building an inclusive, strong team culture
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Security mindset: Security mindset with pragmatic risk management and focus on controls
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Communication and collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience; ability to deliver presentations tailored to the target audience, from technical stakeholders through to executive teams.
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20+ years of software engineering and platform operations experience with hands-on coding and code reviews in modern languages and frameworks.
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5+ years leading engineering teams, driving product and tools development and automation, including hiring, performance management, and career development, while collaborating with US stakeholders.
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Expertise in AWS is required, and it is good to have experience in at least one other cloud platform, such as GCP orAzure, with a strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, AWS ECS Fargate, security and compliance, RBAC, and overall infrastructure governance and management.
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Familiarity with data platform technology such as Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, and Sigma Computing.
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Good understanding of security and compliance, including control frameworks, SOC 2 audit support, evidence collection, and remediation.
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Demonstrated success delivering against long-term and short-term department goals, roadmaps, and OKRs through collaboration with US leadership.
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Excellent English communication (verbal & written) and stakeholder management skills across different functions.
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Good experience with AWS, Java-based applications, and security practices.
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Remote-First Workplace
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Medical Insurance for Self & Family
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Medical Insurance for Parents
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Term Life & Personal Accident
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Wellness Allowance
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Broadband Reimbursement
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Provide continuous learning opportunities to enhance your skills and expertise
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Other benefits include paid certifications and a professional development allowance
phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at phData. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at People Operations.