Director of Data Engineering & Platform Excellence

Beam Suntory, Inc; Madrid; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Suntory Global Spirits is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to define enterprise strategy, build scalable data pipelines, and ensure trusted data is available to the business. You will lead the data engineering chapter, partner with product management, security and governance, and shape the reference architecture across global teams to deliver reliable, observable data platform capabilities.

This role emphasizes collaboration, architecture, and end-to-end delivery in a complex, fast-moving

Qualifications

• Significant progressive experience leading enterprise data engineering in global, complex org.
• Proven track record building high-performing engineering teams and leaders.
• Deep understanding of cloud data architectures (lakes, warehouses, lakehouses); experience with GCP/BigQuery/Databricks.
• Experience with DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, observability and SLOs.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management; vendor evaluation and cost stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the enterprise data engineering chapter and teams.
• Deploy engineers into cross-functional Agile teams while maintaining technical leadership.
• Partner with executives, Product Management, Architecture and Governance to align data capabilities with business priorities.
• Oversee design, build and operation of enterprise data pipelines and curated data products.
• Establish engineering metrics, reliability, and governance; drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Agile delivery

Data architecture

DataOps/DevOps

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Databricks

CI/CD tools

Job description

Suntory Global Spirits is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to define enterprise strategy, build scalable data pipelines, and ensure trusted data is available to the business. You will lead the data engineering chapter, partner with product management, security and governance, and shape the reference architecture across global teams to deliver reliable, observable data platform capabilities.

This role emphasizes collaboration, architecture, and end-to-end delivery in a complex, fast-moving