Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics — AI‑Ready Platform

Marsh; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 278,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

Tuition assistance

401K savings

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Marsh is seeking an experienced Director of Enterprise Data Engineering & Analytics to build and scale our enterprise data platform and analytics capabilities. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution, guiding multi-disciplinary teams to deliver cloud data platforms and AI-ready data products that create measurable business value.

The ideal candidate has deep Databricks and AWS expertise, 10+ years in data platforms, and a proven track record delivering

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and delivering data platforms or large-scale data systems.
• 5+ years leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Proven experience with enterprise cloud data platform transformations using Databricks and AWS.
• Strong software and data engineering skills in Python/SQL, Spark, data modeling, ETL/ELT, CI/CD, observability and governance tooling.
• Experience designing AI-ready data architectures with security and regulatory awareness.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise data strategy and roadmap aligned with business priorities and AI capabilities.
• Lead, hire, and mentor globally distributed data teams across data engineering, analytics engineering, and data science.
• Drive design and delivery of trusted data products powering analytics, ML, and generative AI across the firm.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: review architecture, optimize components, resolve production issues, set standards.
• Partner with senior leaders to shape data roadmap, influence investments, and manage vendor priorities.

Skills

Python

SQL

Databricks

Spark

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Observability

Governance tooling

Leadership

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering/Data Science/Statistics

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

Job description

Marsh is seeking an experienced Director of Enterprise Data Engineering & Analytics to build and scale our enterprise data platform and analytics capabilities. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution, guiding multi-disciplinary teams to deliver cloud data platforms and AI-ready data products that create measurable business value.

The ideal candidate has deep Databricks and AWS expertise, 10+ years in data platforms, and a proven track record delivering