Job Description :
Sr Engineer, HR Data & Analytics
Job Title: Sr Engineer, HR Data & Analytics
Department: General HR / HR Operations
Employee Type: Full Time
Location: Bangalore
Reports To: Sr Director, HR Data & Analytics
Direct Reports: None
Budget Holder: No
Operational Scope: Global
About News Corp: News Corp seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group, are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. We seek candidates with good problem solving skills. The ability to problem solve through problem identification (what is the problem), solution assessment (what can be done), problem documentation (document for future) and problem response (implementing a solution). News Corp is a global diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers and businesses throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, and digital real estate services.
About the team:
The HR Data & Analytics team serves as the central engine for people intelligence across the global News Corp network. We translate complex workforce data into actionable, strategic insights for a diverse group of stakeholders—including business units, regional HR teams, functional leaders, and executive suites.
We are a collaborative team of data storytellers, engineers, and analysts who own the end-to-end data lifecycle. Collectively, our expertise spans:
● Global Insights & Reporting: Empowering regional and global stakeholders with accurate, scalable, and on-demand self-service reporting.
● Advanced Analytics: Moving beyond simple metrics to deliver descriptive and inferential statistics, predictive modeling, and time-series analyses that forecast workforce trends.
● Data Visualization: Transforming complex data structures into intuitive, high-impact dashboards that drive executive decision-making.
● Data Governance & Security: Championing HR Master Data Management (MDM) to ensure the highest standards of data integrity, compliance, and security.
● Continuous Innovation: Keeping our pulse on the market to evaluate and adopt cutting-edge analytics tools and emerging methodologies.
About the role:
As the Senior Analytics Engineer, you will serve as the strategic architect of our data ecosystem. You won’t just build data models; you will design the foundational framework that enables advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI capabilities across the organization. This role requires a blend of deep technical mastery in data modeling, strategic foresight, and the ability to bridge the gap between raw data engineering and cutting-edge AI initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
● Strategic Architecture: Design, scale, and optimize the core HR data warehouse architecture to support enterprise-wide business intelligence, workforce analytics, AI, and machine learning workloads.
● AI & ML Enablement: Partner with Data Science, AI, and HR technology teams to prepare clean training datasets, feature-ready data models, and governed pipelines that support predictive models, LLM applications, and chatbot-based analytics use cases.
● Advanced Data Modeling: Define and implement robust, reusable, and privacy-aware data models using engineering best practices, including version control, CI/CD, automated testing, documentation, and code review.
● Governance, Security & Privacy: Establish frameworks for data governance, quality metrics, lineage, access controls, auditability, and security compliance across all analytics layers, with a strong focus on sensitive HR and employee data.
● Sensitive Data Protection: Design analytics solutions that protect PII and sensitive employee attributes through encryption, masking, tokenization, pseudonymization, row-level security, column-level security, and controlled aggregation.
● Dashboarding & Data…