Senior Director, Data Platform Services
DDN, Pune Office
About the job
Key responsibilities
Organizational & People Leadership
- Own the leadership, structure, and outcome of multiple engineering teams delivering Infinia S3, POSIX, and NFS offerings, with teams located in India and internationally.
- Build and scale an agile, high-performing engineering organization: strong technical bar, high accountability, and a culture where teams take genuine ownership of what they ship.
- Recruit, develop, and retain strong engineering managers and engineers; build a durable leadership bench across all sites.
- Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and run rigorous, fair performance and career development processes for the org.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture across a geographically distributed team, ensuring engineers everywhere feel equally informed, included, and empowered.
- Champion developer experience across the organization: streamlined onboarding, clear documentation, and low-friction tooling, so engineers at every site can ramp quickly and stay productive.
End-to-End Execution & Delivery Ownership
- Own execution end to end for the S3, POSIX, and NFS offerings, from planning and prioritization through delivery, quality, and production readiness.