Global Data Platform Director (Remote)

Articore Group; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 265,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan

Retirement plan

Life Insurance

Paid time off

Family leave

Disability insurance

Training & development

Work from home

Wellness allowance

Job summary

Articore Group is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to unify Martech Engineering, Core Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science into a single group-wide strategy. You will partner with the Melbourne Product Director for Data and report to the SVP of Engineering, shaping reliable pipelines and a consolidated data warehouse.

You will lead global teams across time zones, own the data roadmap end-to-end, govern data privacy, and drive AI-enabled efficiencies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading data organizations, including at least 3 years managing managers.
• Experience consolidating data environments across multiple brands.
• Familiar with GDPR/CCPA and modern data stack (dbt, Airflow, Snowflake).
• Ability to lead global, cross-time-zone teams.
• Direct ownership of cloud/data warehouse budget.
• Experience with data privacy frameworks and concrete data governance.
• Experience through acquisition or merger and data platform migrations.
• Experience managing Data Science or ML teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for data technology across the group and coordinate roadmaps across data engineering, analytics engineering, martech, and data science.
• Own prioritization of OKR-driven initiatives, ad-hoc requests, and platform work; justify tradeoffs to executives.
• Build the architecture behind reliable pipelines with SLAs and reduced technical debt.
• Coordinate with product and other engineering teams to align roadmaps and land cross-functional initiatives.
• Hire and build the data organization across regions (Australia, US, India).
• Manage engineering managers; establish ownership and handoff practices across time zones.
• Coach sprint planning, delivery rituals, and reporting to ensure execution predictability.
• Own data governance and privacy practices aligned to GDPR, CCPA.

Skills

Data leadership

Engineering consolidation

Cross-functional stakeholders

Budget ownership

Data privacy

Modern data stack

Data migration

Agentic AI

Global teams

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Snowflake

Job description

Articore Group is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to unify Martech Engineering, Core Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science into a single group-wide strategy. You will partner with the Melbourne Product Director for Data and report to the SVP of Engineering, shaping reliable pipelines and a consolidated data warehouse.

You will lead global teams across time zones, own the data roadmap end-to-end, govern data privacy, and drive AI-enabled efficiencies.