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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nThe Director, Data Engineering leads the design, development, and deployment of scalable and secure data pipelines, platforms, and ML/AI infrastructure, leveraging cloud-native technologies and big data frameworks. This role oversees the integration of structured and unstructured data sources to support advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives, and champions new tools and technologies to improve productivity, scalability, and effectiveness of data engineering efforts. The Director establishes and enforces data engineering best practices, technical standards, governance, and quality standards, ensuring continuous improvement and technical excellence, while ensuring data security, privacy, compliance, system performance, scalability, and availability across all data engineering projects and platforms.\nAll roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead the design, development, and deployment of scalable and secure data pipelines, platforms, and ML/AI infrastructure.\nOversee integration of structured and unstructured data sources to support advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives.\nEvaluate, implement, and champion new tools and technologies to improve productivity, scalability, and effectiveness of data engineering efforts.\nEstablish and enforce data engineering best practices, technical standards, governance, and quality standards.\nEnsure data security, privacy, compliance, system performance, scalability, and availability across all data engineering projects and platforms.\nDefine, monitor, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of data engineering activities.\nLead incident response, root cause analysis, and resolution for data platform issues, ensuring high availability and reliability.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust data-driven business solutions and define technical roadmaps.\nMentor, coach, and grow a high-performing team of data engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous learning.\nPartner with senior leadership to define, execute, and communicate the enterprise data strategy.\nVisarequiresat least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\n10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD\n10+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.\nExperience in leading large-scale data engineering teams and projects in a complex enterprise environment.\nExperience in data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing, and real-time data processing.\nExperience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Hadoop).\nExperience in data modeling, data governance, and data quality frameworks.\nExperience delivering high-impact data solutions that drive business outcomes.\nExperience working with Data and AI, designing, and building ML infrastructure to train or serve models.\nExperience with open-source data engineering tools or communities.\nExperience in financial services, payments, or a highly regulated industry.\nExperience in mentoring and developing talent within engineering teams.\n12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.\nMasters, PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline.\nExperience in working on large open-source projects, preferably in the ML infrastructure domain like TensorFlow, Ray, JAX, PyTorch, Horovod.\nExperience in contributions to open-source data engineering tools or communities.\nExperience in driving operational excellence and standard methodologies in an engineering environment.\nExperience in working with Data and AI, designing, and building ML infrastructure to train or serve models.\nVisa is an EEO Employer\nQualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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