Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Thales
Israel
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Mentoring","Judgment under pressure"]

Lead the Data Platform group within Imperva’s Platform Engineering team, owning end-to-end delivery for pipelines, storage, and streaming infrastructure deployed on AWS. Guide architecture for scalable real-time and batch data processing, Kafka streaming, and Spark/Flink frameworks, while ensuring sound storage design across relational, NoSQL, and search systems. Drive reliability, observability, and cost improvements and help develop an AI agent for forensic data investigation.

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Thales
Thales
2 months ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

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Job Summary

Lead the Data Platform group within Imperva’s Platform Engineering team, owning end-to-end delivery for pipelines, storage, and streaming infrastructure deployed on AWS. Guide architecture for scalable real-time and batch data processing, Kafka streaming, and Spark/Flink frameworks, while ensuring sound storage design across relational, NoSQL, and search systems. Drive reliability, observability, and cost improvements and help develop an AI agent for forensic data investigation.
Location: Israel
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end delivery for the data platform group, including roadmap, execution, and Agile/SAFe process.
  • •Hire, mentor, and grow a team of engineers.
  • •Guide architecture and technical direction for scalable data pipelines, streaming with Kafka, and processing frameworks like Spark/Flink.
  • •Oversee the platform’s AWS infrastructure and cloud architecture decisions.
  • •Drive reliability, observability, and cost efficiency, and guide development of an AI agent for forensic use cases including MCP tool design.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years hands-on engineering experience, including 5+ years managing engineering teams, ideally in a matrixed org.
  • •Background in backend, data, or platform engineering in a cloud-native environment to guide technical decisions.
  • •Working knowledge of Java/Spring Boot, Kafka or similar, and Kubernetes.
  • •Solid experience with AWS.
  • •Familiarity with data storage technologies (PostgreSQL/RDS, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, NoSQL) and AI agent architectures with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar standards.
Experience:10+ yearsCloud-nativeBackendData engineeringPlatform engineeringCybersecurityAWSAI
Skills:CommunicationMentoringJudgment under pressure
Tech Stack:AWSJavaSpring BootKafkaKubernetesSparkFlinkPostgreSQLRDSOpenSearchElasticsearchNoSQLPrestoAirflowMCPModel Context ProtocolAI agentsMLOpsObservability

Company Brief

Thales
Designs and delivers advanced systems and services for aerospace, defence, security, and digital identity and cybersecurity markets, serving government and commercial customers worldwide.
Industry: Defense Technology
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 2000
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