Role: Manager, Technology - Data, Analytics & AI
Summary
In this exciting role, you would:
- Own the health, performance, and growth of a multidisciplinary Data, Analytics & AI domains and Engineering team
(of Data/BI/ML Engineers and Analysts).
- Create the conditions for sustainable high performance: clear direction, strong collaboration, and career
development.
- Enable the team to turn business problems into robust solutions and actionable insights while maturing practices,
processes, and talent.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and develop a high-performing team (hiring, goal setting, feedback, growth planning).
- Partner with Tech Leadership, Product, and Business stakeholders to convert requirements into scalable data
models, pipelines, semantic layers, and dashboards.
- Participate in the development of the technical vision for your team including contributing to the long-term roadmap.
- Drive data quality, governance, documentation, lineage, and metric definitions; reduce redundancy.
- Set and enforce engineering and analytics best practices (coding standards, version control, peer review, CI/CD,
automated testing) while building an outcome/impact-based culture.
- Escalate and resolve complex technical and data issues; remove delivery blockers.
- Closely monitor status, identify and predict risks. Provide meaningful and actionable insights on progress.
- Manage project forecast and spending.
Requirements And Qualifications
- 8+ years in data engineering / BI / analytics, including 3+ years directly managing teams. 2+ years of working
experience with ML & Data Science is a plus.
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Applications, Engineering, Information Technology/Systems, or equivalent
experience. Masters in any of these areas is a plus.
- Proven delivery of scalable data platforms and BI solutions in cloud (Azure preferred).
- Expertise with SQL, ELT/ETL patterns, dimensional & semantic modeling.
- Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Data Factory, Oracle.
- Working knowledge of Python, Spark, Scala, and streaming technologies a huge plus.
- Strong BI development (Power BI and/or MicroStrategy) and performance tuning.
- Demonstrated governance: data quality frameworks, metadata, metric standardization.
- Solid grasp of software engineering practices (testing, code review, automation, DevOps).
- Excellent stakeholder management; able to translate between business and technical contexts.
- Track record of talent development and building collaborative, inclusive teams.
- Clear written and verbal communication; executive presentation capability.
Typical Success Metrics
- Team Health: Low regrettable attrition.
- Delivery Predictability: ≥80% of committed quarterly objectives delivered without quality regressions.
- Talent Growth: Documented progression for each team member; internal promotions / expanded scope.
- Operational Maturity: Reduction in unplanned urgent work and data incident frequency; improved cycle time.
- Stakeholder Trust: Positive satisfaction feedback (clarity, responsiveness, value realized).
- Adoption & Impact: Growth in usage of certified data products/dashboards and measurable business decisions
influenced
About Us
Williams-Sonoma India Pvt. Ltd.
Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Today, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is one of the United States' largest e-commerce retailers with some of the best known and most beloved brands in home furnishings. Our family of brands are Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teens, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, and Mark and Graham. We currently operate retail stores globally. Our products are also available to customers through our catalogs and online worldwide.Williams-Sonoma India sourcing office was established in 2013. We are based in Gurugram, India. We are sourcing premium products across all categories of Home Furnishing and recorded double digit year-on-year growth. We have a dynamic team of over 100 members handling versatile vendors across India, Nepal & Bangladesh. We are looking to onboard talented people and create successful professional journey.
