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As a Director you will set strategic direction, lead business development, oversee multiple initiatives, and bring executive-level client engagement together with mentoring that helps teams grow and deliver sustained value. In this role at PwC, you will guide work across data platform modernization, ETL, cloud migration, and hybrid environments, helping clients move legacy data environments toward cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Databricks, and Snowflake.\nResponsibilities\n- Leading data engineering strategy for cloud modernization initiatives across client engagements\n- Designing data architectures, pipelines, and integration patterns for AWS, Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake environments\n- Overseeing delivery of data platform modernization work, including migration, consolidation, and performance tuning\n- Developing scalable data models, warehouse structures, and transformation logic that support analytics and AI use cases\n- Applying database management, indexing, query optimization, and security methods to improve platform reliability\n- Guiding teams in building and maintaining data lake and data warehouse solutions that support multiple business needs\n- Translating client requirements into engineering roadmaps, delivery plans, and technical solution designs\n- Driving adoption of data engineering platforms, automation tools, and agile delivery methods across projects\n- Advising on data quality, governance, and infrastructure choices that support long-term platform value\n- Influencing technical decisions and shaping solutions that connect business goals with modern data capabilities\nWhat You Must Have\n- At least a Bachelor's degree\n- At least 9 years of experience\nWhat Sets You Apart\n- Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Analytics/Data Science, Business Administration/Management, Computer Science/Information Systems, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics/Statistics, Operations/Supply Chain\n- Demonstrating AI-fluency across data engineering and modernization initiatives\n- Leading cloud data platform strategy using AWS, Azure, Databricks, or Snowflake\n- Translating data architecture vision into scalable client solutions\n- Driving data integration, quality, modeling, and pipeline modernization\n- Guiding cross-functional teams through strategic delivery and change\n- Shaping go-to-market priorities for data modernization offerings\nThe salary range for this position is: $155,000 - $410,000. 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