Director, Data Engineering
Core
Lead Data Foundations and Insights, managing engineering managers and staff engineers to build reliable data infrastructure for Chime's products, analytics, and AI initiatives.
Role type
Director of Data Engineering (IC + People Leadership)
Builds
Scalable data foundations, ingestion/transformation/storage pipelines, and data architecture supporting analytics and AI/ML tools.
Domain
Fintech / Data Engineering / AI Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Engineering organization leadership (managing managers), cross-functional partnership, multi-year technical strategy, modern data architecture (ingestion, transformation, storage, governance), architecture trade-offs at scale, hiring and team development.
Preferred skills
Data foundations for AI/LLM tools, regulated industry experience.
Technologies
Data platforms, cloud infrastructure, ML/AI tooling.
Responsibilities
Lead and grow an organization of engineering managers and staff engineers; set multi-year technical vision and roadmap; partner with product, analytics, ML, and business leaders; ensure data quality and trust for analysts and AI tools; shape data architecture for AI transformation; balance competing priorities across teams; hire, coach, and develop leaders.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical credibility.