Director, Data Platform Engineering
Core
Define and execute enterprise data strategy, platform roadmap, and operating model to enable trusted, scalable, and secure data for analytics, reporting, and AI solutions.
Role type
Director, Data Platform Engineering (Strategy & Leadership)
Builds
Enterprise data platforms, data engineering capabilities, and foundational data products for analytics and AI.
Domain
Retail / Food Service / Enterprise Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Enterprise data platform strategy, multi-year roadmap planning, data-as-a-product culture, trusted advisor to senior leadership, operating metrics definition, scalable batch/streaming architecture, engineering best practices (CI/CD, automation, observability), emerging technology evaluation, data product lifecycle management, self-service analytics enablement, feature/context serving for AI, data quality engineering, operational excellence, incident management, team building, talent acquisition, budget management.
Preferred skills
Enterprise data modernization leadership, cloud transformation, advanced analytics enablement, lakehouse architectures, DataOps practices.
Technologies
Cloud-based data platforms, modern data architecture patterns, large-scale distributed data processing, metadata, lineage, observability tools.
Responsibilities
Define and evolve enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap; Lead architecture and operation of enterprise data platforms; Own enterprise data product strategy and lifecycle; Ensure trusted data foundations for predictive and generative AI; Lead Data Quality Engineering and Data Operations functions; Build and develop high-performing engineering organizations.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical oversight
