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This role will partner directly with Global Data leadership to shape technical strategy, improve execution, raise engineering quality, and accelerate the modernization of our data platforms, pipelines, products, and operating model.\nThis is not a traditional people-management-only role. It is a high-leverage technical leadership role for someone who can operate like a technical chief of staff: connecting strategy to execution, driving cross-functional alignment, identifying technical risks, improving decision quality, and helping teams move faster with clarity.\nThe ideal candidate is AI-forward, deeply technical, operationally sharp, and comfortable working across ambiguity. They understand data-intensive systems, software engineering, architecture, automation, and product delivery. 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