Associate Director, Data Platforms — Technical Lead
Core
Lead the transition of existing data pipelines to a cloud-native lakehouse platform, ensuring reliability, observability, and secure data distribution for enterprise data products.
Role type
Senior IC data platform engineering lead (cloud & lakehouse)
Builds
Cloud-native data pipelines, data lake/lakehouse architectures, and governed data distribution workflows
Domain
Cloud data engineering, data platforms, and data mastering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Data pipeline migration, AWS cloud-native services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, Lake Formation), Lakehouse technologies (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Unity Catalog), Data mastering/MDM integration, CI/CD, Infrastructure automation, Observability, AI-assisted engineering
Preferred skills
Experience with global/distributed team delivery, AI tooling for code generation and debugging, Stakeholder management
Technologies
AWS (S3, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, Lake Formation, IAM, CodePipeline, CodeBuild), Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Unity Catalog, NeoXam DataHub
Responsibilities
Plan and execute data pipeline transitions to target platforms, Define asset-agnostic onboarding patterns and reusable technical assets, Integrate platform pipelines with enterprise data mastering systems, Drive engineering excellence through code reviews and technical standards, Establish cloud engineering standards for automation and release management, Partner with global teams to ensure alignment with enterprise governance and security standards
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
