Director of Data Engineering - Remote

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Director, Data Engineering to lead our technology decisions related to infrastructure and vendor functions for our commercial products. The director will manage the product’s technology operations and implement new IT systems/policies and oversee a team of seasoned data engineers, data scientists, machine learning and big data experts.

In Short

• Define and enforce IT policies related to cloud security and DevOps best practices.
• Provide strategic support and challenge decisions through thought-provoking questions.
• Understand data governance and create policies and procedures.
• Simplify complex problems for manageability.
• Drive organizational change effectively.
• Foster strong cross-functional communication and collaboration.
• Lead software engineering teams in cloud-native environments.
• Drive the adoption of cloud best practices and microservices.
• Establish coding standards and governance policies.
• Effectively manage remote engineers.

Requirements

• Strong experience leading a team of software engineers.
• Ability to work closely with other leaders to scale technology.
• Ability to develop and manage the engineering roadmap.
• Experience with technical project planning.
• Strong communication skills for organizational dissemination.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform or Dynamics 365 (nice to have).
• Familiarity with Azure Databricks and PySpark (nice to have).
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience developing production-grade systems.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience managing developers and DevOps teams.

Benefits

• Flexible working environment.
• Volunteer time off.
• LinkedIn Learning.
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP).