Senior Director - Data Platform

We are actively searching for a senior director of data platform to lead our new enterprise data and analytics technology organization. We are looking for someone who thrives in an agile, collaborative, team-based environment, working closely with our business to build out a cloud data platform on AWS.

About the role:

• Partner with business and technology leadership to shape the data landscape across the organization.
• Evaluate the current organization and operationalize the new enterprise data tech function.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships for data platforms with critical 3rd party solution providers.
• Lead an organization of engineers, product owners, and architects to build and support a cloud data platform supporting our business.
• Influence the maturing of data technology and architecture fundamentals across the enterprise.

Qualifications

Demonstrated leadership of data product and engineering teams, including platform engineering and support. Hands on data architecture and engineering experience is expected.

• Strong relevant and technical consulting skills; easily be recognized as a thought leader within the company.
• Proven track record delivering data enterprise data solutions in support of multiple constituents in a matrixed leadership environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill to shape and articulate complex technology vision and roadmaps that directly align to key business objectives.
• Proven track record to lead a team of data scientists, engineers and managers. 5+ years of management experience required.
• High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Advanced understanding of the full lifecycle of data and supporting technologies such as: Platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks), ETL (Snaplogic, Glue, Spark), BI, Data Science, ML Ops. Expert level knowledge of AWS required.
• Proven success influencing executive business leaders to embrace change and adopt new data capabilities to drive business results.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills.