Director, Enterprise Data Platform

Ankura; Argentina; Híbrido; ARS 226.949.000 - 317.729.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Ankura is seeking a Director in Buenos Aires to design and deliver cloud-based data platforms across client engagements. You will own architecture, drive multi-project delivery, and mentor data engineers while aligning platforms with business goals.

The role requires 8+ years in data engineering with leadership, strong ETL/orchestration experience, and excellent client-facing communication in English. Hybrid setup in Buenos Aires is available.

Formación

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering with leadership responsibilities.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade cloud data platforms.
• Strong communication skills and senior client-facing experience.
• Ability to estimate, plan, and govern complex delivery programs.
• Exposure to multi-team or multi-vendor delivery models is preferred.
• Cloud certifications are a plus and English fluency is required.

Responsabilidades

• Define and own architecture of cloud-based data platforms across client engagements.
• Lead large-scale ETL and data platform implementations using Databricks, Snowflake, etc.
• Establish reference architectures, delivery standards, and engineering best practices.
• Oversee ETL orchestration using Data Factory, Airflow, or similar platforms.
• Estimate, plan, and govern delivery across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Partner with stakeholders to align data platform design with business goals.
• Mentor, coach, and develop data engineers and technical leads.
• Ensure platforms meet scalability, reliability, security, and cost targets.
• Support pre-sales activities including solution design and estimates.

Conocimientos

Data engineering leadership

Enterprise data platforms

ETL orchestration tools

Databricks / Snowflake

Client-facing communication

Herramientas

Data Factory

Airflow

Informatica

Databricks

Snowflake

Descripción del empleo

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview: Ankura's Digital Transformation practice helps clients modernize their organizations by leveraging data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes. Our data engineering and data science experts design and develop enterprise data platforms that unify trusted data and provide the scalable foundation for reporting, advanced analytics, automation, and AI.

Role Overview: We are looking for a Director to help lead the design and delivery of cloud-based data platforms across multiple client engagements. This role combines deep technical expertise with delivery ownership, architectural decision-making, and team leadership. The Director will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring data platforms are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business strategy.

This role is based in Buenos Aires.

This position will be employed via a 3rd party payroll and will be Director level equivalent within Ankura's structure.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the architecture of cloud-based data platforms across client engagements.
• Lead large-scale ETL and data platform implementations using tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, and equivalent technologies.
• Establish reference architectures, delivery standards, and engineering best practices.
• Oversee ETL orchestration strategies using tools such as Data Factory, Airflow, or enterprise ETL platforms.
• Estimate, plan, and govern delivery across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Partner with client stakeholders to align data platform design with business objectives.
• Mentor, coach, and develop data engineers and technical leads.
• Ensure platforms meet expectations for scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Support pre-sales activities, including solution design and technical estimates.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade cloud data platforms.
• Deep expertise with ETL / orchestration tools (e.g., Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica, or similar).
• Strong experience with analytics and processing platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalents.
• Demonstrated ability to estimate, plan, and govern complex delivery programs.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, governance, and security principles.
• Excellent communication skills and experience in senior, client-facing roles.
• Strong business acumen and results-oriented mindset.
• Preferred to have experience leading multi-team or multi-vendor delivery models.
• Preferred to have exposure to advanced analytics, machine learning pipelines, or real-time processing.
• Cloud or platform certifications (any major provider) is preferred.
• Must be fluent in English #LI-Hybrid #LI-MJ1

Ankura is an affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 2000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise.

Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Delivers, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Value. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.