Director - Business Intelligence

expertise and a genuine understanding of what media data means, not just how to move it. Job Description: Core Skills & Requirements Databricks & Data Engineering Deep, hands-on Databricks expertise: Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow / Delta Live Tables, Medallion architecture, and performance tuning. Expert-level SQL and strong Python for data engineering; production experience building and operating pipelines at scale. Solid grasp of data modeling, orchestration, data quality, and governance — building for reuse and maintainability, not one-off delivery. Experience with the surrounding ecosystem (Azure, lightweight ETL / data-prep tooling such as Trifacta or dbt) is a strong plus. AI-Assisted Data Development Hands-on experience developing data solutions with AI tooling — Databricks Genie, Git Hub / Databricks Copilot, Claude Code, or comparable AI coding agents. Able to use AI assistants to accelerate pipeline build, transformation logic, and debugging while maintaining correctness, governance, and quality. A builder's mindset: comfortable pairing with AI tools as a force multiplier for the team, not a novelty. Media & Marketing Data Fluency You must understand not just how to engineer the data, but what the data means. Strong command of media and marketing data: what impressions, spend, clicks, and conversions represent, and how they relate. Understanding of how reach and frequency work — served vs. viewable impressions, de-duplicated reach, and frequency capping — and the implications for how data must be modeled. Familiarity with conversion tracking and attribution mechanics — pixels, tags, post-click vs. post-view, and lookback windows. Knowledge of how media data connects across campaigns, placements, creatives, and channels, and how spend flows through to outcomes. Practical experience with media taxonomies and naming conventions as the foundation of trustworthy, joinable data. Leadership Proven experience leading and developing an engineering team, ideally in an offshore / DGS or global delivery model. Ability to set architecture and code standards, review work critically, and raise the quality bar across a team. Strong communication across time zones with onshore leads and stakeholders. Preferred / Nice to Have Experience with streaming / near-real-time ingestion patterns. Familiarity with trafficking / ad ops platforms (CM360, Prisma, DV360, TTD) and how their data lands in the platform. Exposure to semantic / metrics layers and how engineering choices affect downstream reporting (Power BI, dbt metrics). Experience in an agency, ad tech, or marketing analytics environment. CI/CD, testing, and Data Ops practices for data pipelines. Qualifications 12+ years in data engineering, with several years in a leadership or director-level capacity. Demonstrated deep Databricks / Lakehouse expertise in production. Demonstrated domain knowledge of media and/or marketing data (hard requirement). Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Location: DGS India - Chennai - Anna Nagar Tyche Towers Brand: Paragon Time Type: Full time Contract Type: Permanent Can’t find a suitable job? Sign up for job alerts tailored to your interests and be first in line for new opportunities. About dentsu For over 120 years, innovation has been a core tenet of our offering – exploring new ways to reach, engage and nurture relationships with audiences. Together we drive a multiplier effect for clients at a global scale, through the development of Integrated Growth Solutions that are underpinned by our promise to clients: innovating to impact. Be a force for good. Sustainability is a vital part of our business and an important area of focus for our clients. We’re leading the way – helping to build a more sustainable planet. Dream loud. In this moment of transformation, we need our people to be fearless, embracing change and ambiguity, driven by the love for their work and excitement for the future. Team without limits. We create opportunities for connection and collaboration between our colleagues and clients, building a sense of belonging and having some fun along the way. Find out more about us Who we are Our Social Impact Our work