DIRECTOR DATA ENGINEERING
About the Job
The Director Data Engineering will lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive
data strategy that aligns with the organization’s business goals and enables data driven decision
making.
Roles and Responsibilities
● Build and manage a team of talented data managers and engineers with the ability to not only keep up
with, but also pioneer, in this space
● Collaborate with and influence leadership to directly impact company strategy and direction
● Develop new techniques and data pipelines that will enable various insights for internal and external
customers
● Develop deep partnerships with client implementation teams, engineering and product teams to deliver on
major cross-functional measurements and testing
● Communicate effectively to all levels of the organization, including executives
● Provide success in partnering teams with dramatically varying backgrounds, from the highly technical to the
highly creative
● Design a data engineering roadmap and execute the vision behind it
● Hire, lead, and mentor a world-class data team
● Partner with other business areas to co-author and co-drive strategies on our shared roadmap
● Oversee the movement of large amounts of data into our data lake
● Establish a customer-centric approach and synthesize customer needs
● Own end-to-end pipelines and destinations for the transfer and storage of all data
● Manage 3rd-party resources and critical data integration vendors
● Promote a culture that drives autonomy, responsibility, perfection and mastery.
● Maintain and optimize software and cloud expenses to meet financial goals of the company
● Provide technical leadership to the team in design and architecture of data products and drive
change across process, practices, and technology within the organization
● Work with engineering managers and functional leads to set direction and ambitious goals for
the Engineering department
● Ensure data quality, security, and accessibility across the organization
Skills You Will Need
● 10+ years of experience in data engineering
● 5+ years of experience leading data teams of 30+ resources or more, including selection of talent
planning / allocating resources across multiple geographies and functions.
● 5+ years of experience with GCP tools and technologies, specifically, Google BigQuery, Google
cloud composer, Dataflow, Dataform, etc.
● Experience creating large-scale data engineering pipelines, data-based decision-making and
quantitative analysis tools and software
● Experience with hands-on to code version control systems (git)
● Experience with CICD, data architectures, pipelines, quality, and code management
● Experience with complex, high volume, multi-dimensional data, based on unstructured,
structured, and streaming datasets
● Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
● Experience creating, testing, and supporting production software and systems
● Proven track record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks for production systems
● Experience designing and developing data lake, data warehouse, ETL and task orchestrating
systems
● Strong leadership, communication, time management and interpersonal skills
● Proven architectural skills in data engineering
● Experience leading teams developing production-grade data pipelines on large datasets
● Experience designing a large data lake and lake house experience, managing data flows that
integrate information from various sources into a common pool implementing data pipelines
based on the ETL model
● Experience with common data languages (e.g. Python, Scala) and data warehouses (e.g.
Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks)
● Extensive experience on cloud tools and technologies - GCP preferred
● Experience managing real-time data pipelines
● Successful track record and demonstrated thought-leadership and cross-functional influence
and partnership within an agile / water-fall development environment.
● Experience in regulated industries or with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
Nice to have:
● HR services industry experience
● Experience in data science, including predictive modeling
● Experience leading teams across multiple geographies
