Data Engineering Director — Architecting Scalable Platforms

Wisepath Financial Group; High Point (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisepath Financial Group is seeking a hands-on Director of Data Engineering to lead engineers and own the architecture, roadmap, and reliability of governed data products. You will connect technical decisions with business outcomes, coach the team, and protect data quality across enrichment, segmentation, scoring, and activation workflows while ensuring compliance with Legal/Compliance standards.

This high-visibility role requires collaboration with product, security, and legal teams to align

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering or data platform experience with production ownership of pipelines/models/cloud data systems.
• 3+ years leading engineers including hiring, coaching, and delivery accountability.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills with ability to assess designs and guide engineers.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform and a production data warehouse or lakehouse.
• Strong architecture, ETL/ELT, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and data-quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Own the data engineering roadmap and prioritize with product, engineering, growth, operations, and legal/compliance.
• Lead and develop data engineers through hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance feedback.
• Set architecture and standards for ETL/ELT, data models, cloud infra, warehouses, and reusable inference layers.
• Build controls for source approval, provenance, access, data lineage, quality, retention, and audit evidence.
• Govern scoring and analytics with approved historical signals while preventing re-identification.
• Define service objectives, monitor freshness/quality, and lead incident response and root-cause reviews.
• Manage cloud, warehouse, and vendor budgets; forecast costs and document tradeoffs.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Data architecture

Leadership

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Job description

Wisepath Financial Group is seeking a hands-on Director of Data Engineering to lead engineers and own the architecture, roadmap, and reliability of governed data products. You will connect technical decisions with business outcomes, coach the team, and protect data quality across enrichment, segmentation, scoring, and activation workflows while ensuring compliance with Legal/Compliance standards.

This high-visibility role requires collaboration with product, security, and legal teams to align