Data Engineering Director: Architecture & Governance

Wisepath Group

High Point (NC)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Wisepath Group seeks a hands-on Director of Data Engineering to lead engineers, own the architecture, roadmap, and reliability of governed data products across enrichment, segmentation, scoring, and activation workflows.

You will connect technical decisions with business outcomes, coach the team, and protect data quality while partnering with Legal/Compliance to enforce controls. Nine+ years of data experience and leadership are expected.

Qualifications

Eight or more years of relevant data engineering or data platform experience.
Three or more years leading engineers through direct supervision, hiring, coaching, and delivery accountability.
Advanced SQL and Python proficiency.
Experience with at least one major cloud platform and a production data warehouse or lakehouse.
Demonstrated architecture, ETL/ELT, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and data-quality practices.

Responsibilities

Own the data engineering roadmap; prioritize work with Product, Engineering, Growth, Operations, and Legal/Compliance using business value, capacity, and risk.
Lead and develop data engineers through hiring, onboarding, coaching, delegation, and performance feedback; coordinate approved external contributors under appropriate engagement arrangements.
Set architecture and engineering standards for ETL/ELT, data models, cloud infrastructure, warehouses, and reusable inference layers; remain involved in design and critical code reviews.
Build enforceable controls for source approval, provenance, access, data lineage, quality, retention, deletion, and audit evidence in partnership with Legal/Compliance and security owners.
Govern ZIP-, county-, and corridor-level scoring using approved aggregated historical signals; prevent prohibited real-time or individual incident tracking and unauthorized re-identification.
Define service objectives, monitor freshness and quality, and lead incident response and root-cause reviews with assigned owners and sustainable coverage.
Manage approved cloud, warehouse, and vendor budgets; forecast costs, review unit economics, and recommend resource or platform changes with documented tradeoffs.