Engineering Director: Data Platform & BI Leadership

Ovative Group, LLC

Minneapolis (MN)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 228,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Office spaces in MSP, NYC, CHI

Frequent travel to Minneapolis HQ

Generous paid vacation

401(k) match

Top health insurance options

Fertility and family benefits

Phone/data plan stipend

Sabbatical program

Charitable giving match

Job summary

Ovative Group, LLC is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the Data Products and BI & Reporting teams, owning engineering systems, standards, and processes for high-quality software delivery. You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, and stakeholders to advance the EMRge platform.

The role requires 10+ years in engineering leadership, strong governance, and cloud experience. This position offers visibility across multiple offices and a competitive compensation package, including a

Qualifications

10+ years of engineering leadership experience including direct management of Engineering Managers.
Ability to build engineering operating systems: SDLC ownership, DevOps maturity, quality governance, and delivery metrics.
Proven record of developing high-performing engineering teams through coaching, accountability, and culture building.
Strong cross-functional collaboration with senior product/business leaders.
Experience driving engineering standards and governance in a complex, multi-team product environment.
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to executive audiences.
Previous hands-on software development experience (front-end, back-end, or data engineering).
Preferred: Experience in a data-intensive SaaS or analytics product environment.
Familiarity with SOC2 compliance requirements and implementation in an engineering context.
Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure.
Background in marketing technology, measurement, or analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

Define, implement, and continuously improve development standards, coding guidelines, and engineering governance controls across all product teams.
Own the quality framework for engineering: code review standards, testing strategy, release gates, and technical debt management.
Champion security, compliance, and data governance best practices, including SOC2 alignment.
Drive architectural consistency and scalability across the EMRge platform and its services.
Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and practices that advance engineering maturity.
Own and partner across the full SDLC, ensuring predictable, repeatable delivery processes.
Build and maintain the DevOps infrastructure and toolchain that enables developer productivity and deployment confidence.
Partner with Engineering Managers to deliver sprint planning, capacity management, and delivery forecasting.
Track and deliver engineering health metrics such as cycle time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery.
Identify and systematically resolve developer experience friction across environments, tooling, and workflows.
Directly manage and develop a team of Engineering Managers and Lead Engineers, providing coaching, expectation-setting, and career development support.
Foster a culture of accountability, psychological safety, continuous learning, and high standards.
Partner with recruiting to attract and retain outstanding engineering talent; participate actively in hiring processes and candidate assessment.
Drive team health through regular engagement, meaningful 1:1s, and proactive resolution of morale or performance issues.
Elevate Ovative’s engineering brand through internal development programs, external community engagement, and content creation.
Serve as the senior engineering accountability layer for on-time, high-quality delivery of product features and platform capabilities.
Partner with Product leadership to align roadmap priorities with engineering capacity and technical constraints.
Remove cross-functional blockers that impede delivery and resolve dependency and coordination issues across teams.
Provide transparent, accurate delivery forecasting and status communication to engineering and product leadership.
Balance velocity and sustainability—ensuring teams can maintain delivery pace without compromising quality or team health.