IT&D Platform Engineer Manager
Reckitt
Software Engineering, IT
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Jan 26, 2026
We are Reckitt
Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
Information Technology & Digital
In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.
Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.
Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.
Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.
Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.
About the role
As the IT&D Manager, Data Platforms, you will champion value-based delivery, ensuring that platform initiatives align with and support business outcomes. You will drive operational excellence across products and programs by utilizing advanced analytical techniques to proactively identify opportunities and mitigate risks.
In this managerial role, you will foster a culture of continuous improvement, enabling the transfer of best practices across the organization. You will provide hands-on leadership to the platform team, guiding and mentoring Data Platform Engineers to design and operate stable, scalable, and cost-effective architectures.
Your responsibilities
- Drive operational excellence across products and programs, ensuring projects are delivered on time and meet business requirements.
- Support program and project managers in the design, planning, and governance of implementation projects.
- Translate business needs into technical roadmaps and negotiate trade-offs across competing priorities to ensure successful delivery.
- Execute the data mesh enablement roadmap and evaluate new technologies to enhance platform capabilities.
- Leverage GenAI tools to accelerate data engineering workflows and support the integration of AI/ML capabilities into platform pipelines
- Drive the adoption of these innovations within the team, mentoring engineers on how to utilize GenAI for code optimization and documentation.
- Lead and mentor a diverse team of internal Data Platform Engineers and external vendor resources, ensuring a unified approach to delivery and engineering excellence.
- Manage operational relationships with external vendors and partners, ensuring adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs), resource quality, and cost efficiency
- Foster a collaborative culture that promotes knowledge transfer between internal staff and external partners to reduce single points of failure.
- Own the end-to-end stability and availability of the Enterprise Data Platform, acting as the primary custodian for uptime and performance.
- Design and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks to proactively identify risks before they impact business users
- Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes for major incidents and drive remediation plans to prevent recurrence, ensuring a "stable and scalable" environment.
- Drive the automation of routine infrastructure tasks (provisioning, patching, maintenance) using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to minimize manual errors and improve stability.
- Define and test Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity plans, ensuring rigorous backup procedures and failover strategies are in place
- Continuously optimize platform performance and cost, balancing infrastructure scaling with budget constraints.
The experience we're looking for
- 12+ years of experience in the data and analytics space, with significant recent experience in a Managerial, Delivery Lead, or Platform Owner capacity.
- Proven track record of leading teams (internal and vendor) to deliver stable, scalable, cloud-native data platforms (SaaS/PaaS based architectures).
- Strong experience in Program Management; ability to lead multiple parallel initiatives, manage roadmaps, and translate business requirements into platform deliverables.
- Experience in vendor management, including drafting SOWs, managing SLAs, and ensuring delivery quality from external partners.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent.
- Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or technical management preferred.
- Certifications in Cloud Fundamentals (e.g., Azure Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals) or Project Management (e.g., PMP, Prince2, Agile/Scrum) are highly desirable.
The skills for success
Data Platform, Data Mesh, Stakeholder Management, Azure
What we offer
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.
Equality
We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.