Director of Data Strategy & Platform

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity RSUs

Annual bonus program

Health coverage

Retirement savings

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seeks a Director of Data to own the data strategy and platform as we scale toward software-defined vehicles. This hands-on leadership role sets architecture while building and guiding a high-performing team handling high-volume vehicle and enterprise data.

You’ll stay close to design and code, recruit and mentor engineers, and partner with quality, manufacturing, product, and software teams to ensure reliability, safety, and analytics needs.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in data engineering or analytics
• 3+ years leading data teams
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Hands-on with Databricks; Spark or similar platforms preferred
• Experience designing scalable data architectures
• Experience hiring and mentoring data engineers

Responsibilities

• Define data strategy and roadmap across telemetry, manufacturing, and enterprise data
• Architect large-scale data platforms for ingestion, storage, processing, and serving
• Review designs and code; set technical standards by example
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a data engineering team
• Collaborate with engineering, product, quality, and manufacturing teams to ensure reliable data infrastructure
• Establish data governance, quality, and security practices
• Build stakeholder reports on platform health and data delivery
• Evaluate modern tooling to scale data operations
• Manage budgets, vendors, and tooling decisions

Skills

SQL

Python

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

Cloud data warehouses

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies seeks a Director of Data to own the data strategy and platform as we scale toward software-defined vehicles. This hands-on leadership role sets architecture while building and guiding a high-performing team handling high-volume vehicle and enterprise data.

You’ll stay close to design and code, recruit and mentor engineers, and partner with quality, manufacturing, product, and software teams to ensure reliability, safety, and analytics needs.