Director of Data Engineering

About the job

About New Wave Staffing:

New Wave Staffing is a boutique recruitment agency dedicated to providing strategic talent solutions in specialized domains. We help connect exceptional candidates with dynamic organizations, our mission is to redefine the landscape of talent acquisition. Specializing in data specific roles, we tailor our approach to meet the unique needs of our clients.

About Our Client:

Our client is a growing marketing company making substantial investments in its data capabilities. Positioned for success and recognized for innovation, they are currently seeking a Director of Data Engineering to play a pivotal role in advancing their data-driven strategies. Join a dynamic organization at the forefront of marketing, where your expertise will contribute to shaping the future of data engineering.

Qualifications:

• Strong technical leadership, with a passion for producing robust, high-quality solutions.
• Strong team leadership, with a strong results-focused orientation.
• 4+ years hands-on experience working within the Databricks Lakehouse environment or other cloud-based environments (GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.).
• 4-year college degree in computer science or related field.
• Demonstrable deep knowledge and experience in Data Engineering, Cloud based data strategy and transformation, cloud architecture and engineering.
• One of more Technical certification in the following: Cloud Data Architect, Databricks Data Engineering Professional, or other cloud data engineering professional certification.
• Strong demonstrable expertise with the Medallion architecture (i.e., “multi-hop architecture). coupled with deep hands-on experience building, scalable ELT pipelines.
• Technical depth and advanced-level hands-on experience developing SQL code.
• Technical depth and advanced-level hands-on experience developing Python code.
• Familiar with ML & AI concepts and application, as this role primarily supports the data science team who develop and productionize machine learning models.
• Proven experience developing cloud-based solutions.
• Experience with marketing and advertising technologies and their application within the cloud.
• Strong problem solving or analytics experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Passionate about working in a fast-paced, and fluid multiple workstream environment.
• Demonstrates a high sense of urgency, with a strongly action-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities:

• Reports to the Vice President of Data Science, the Director of Data Engineering plays a critical role scoping and delivering cloud-based solutions with our clients.
• Responsible for leading a team of data engineers to develop, test and manage highly scalable and reliable data pipelines to extract, load and transform complex data from a variety of external systems efficiently within the Databricks Lakehouse environment.
• Responsible for implementing and instilling a DevOps mindset across the data engineering team, with a desire to automate all data ingestions and data flows throughout the data ecosystem.
• This is a hands-on leadership role, with the primary responsibility for developing algorithms and applying cloud intelligence to build, grow and manage a dynamic data ecosystem.
• Responsible for creating robust data validation methods and analytics products.
• Responsible for maintaining data privacy and compliance are important competencies.
• Govern our data sources and technology platforms to ensure security standards are met.
• Responsible for explaining, designing, and resolving technical or design conflicts that may arise.
• This role must display a distinctive level of subject matter expertise in architecting and delivering advertising / marketing technology and data strategies that enhance client value.
• Must embrace working closely with data analysts, data scientists and sales executives to deliver ambitious projects for our customers, for whom short turnaround time is imperative.