Director, Data Platform Engineering
Core
Define and execute enterprise data strategy, platform roadmap, and operating model to enable trusted, scalable, and secure data across the organization for analytics, reporting, and AI solutions.
Role type
Director, Data Platform Engineering
Builds
Enterprise data platforms, data engineering capabilities, and foundational data products
Domain
Retail / Restaurant / QSR industry + Enterprise Data Engineering & AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Enterprise data platform strategy, multi-year roadmap planning, data-as-a-product culture, scalable batch/streaming/real-time data solutions, data modeling, CI/CD, automation, observability, data quality engineering, data operations, team leadership, budget management, stakeholder influence
Preferred skills
Enterprise data modernization, cloud transformation, advanced analytics, feature serving, context serving, lakehouse architectures, DataOps, retail/consumer industry experience
Technologies
Cloud-based data platforms, modern data architecture patterns, large-scale distributed data processing, metadata, lineage
Responsibilities
Define and evolve enterprise data platform strategy; Lead strategy, architecture, and operation of enterprise data platforms; Own enterprise data product strategy and roadmap; Ensure data foundations for predictive and generative AI; Lead Data Quality Engineering and Data Operations functions; Build, lead, and develop high-performing engineering organizations
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership & hands-on IC
