Head of Data Engineering & Platform Delivery

Engine; Rogers (AR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonuses

Comprehensive health, dental, and view

Job summary

Engine is seeking a Director of Engineering in Rogers, AR to lead a data engineering team supporting the SaaS Retail Analytics product. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery processes, and partner with Customer Success and Product to align strategy and execution.

This is a people-leadership role with responsibility for hiring, coaching, and performance management, plus shaping the team’s technical direction and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading a data engineering, data management, or technical team with direct people-management responsibility.
• Mentoring engineers and conducting real career and performance conversations.
• Experience running agile delivery for an engineering team: sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives, DoR.
• Proactive stakeholder communication with Customer Success or client-facing teams on delivery timelines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across levels.
• Working technical understanding of modern data engineering (data pipelines, cloud data platforms) to guide decisions.
• Ability to work on-site in Rogers, AR.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of data engineers: run 1:1s, mentor, and grow technical capability.
• Own team health and direction: regular check-ins, communicate strategy and vision.
• Run end-to-end delivery: ensure story readiness, refined backlog for sprint planning.
• Communicate scope and delivery timelines with Customer Success for multi-sprint features.
• Set support issue timelines and provide proactive updates if timelines slip.
• Monitor quality signals and surface issues before customers notice.
• Maintain visibility into the team's data connector footprint and platform dependencies.
• Partner with other leaders to resolve roadmap conflicts and reduce single-person dependencies.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Agile delivery leadership

Stakeholder communication

People management

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Python

C#

Job description

Engine is seeking a Director of Engineering in Rogers, AR to lead a data engineering team supporting the SaaS Retail Analytics product. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery processes, and partner with Customer Success and Product to align strategy and execution.

This is a people-leadership role with responsibility for hiring, coaching, and performance management, plus shaping the team’s technical direction and cross-functional collaboration.