Remote Director of Data Engineering Platform Modernization

ADP, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

PTO 19 days/year + 10 holidays

Job summary

Staritas is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to lead our enterprise data strategy, platform modernization, and operational excellence. You will drive design, governance, reliability, and scalability of our data ecosystem to enable analytics, AI, and business intelligence across the organization.

You will partner with executives to align data initiatives with business objectives, manage budgets and teams of managers, architects, and data engineers, and guide modernization efforts to reduce

Qualifications

• 12+ years progressively responsible data engineering/architecture leadership.
• 7+ years leading technical teams in complex environments.
• Experience developing enterprise data strategies, governance, and modernization roadmaps.
• Strong cloud data platform, data integration, and production operations expertise.
• Advanced SQL and relational/analytic databases.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise data engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Lead teams of managers, architects, and data engineers.
• Oversee design and optimization of data platforms (warehouses, lakes, lakehouses).
• Establish standards for data architecture, governance, quality, security, observability, and DataOps.
• Drive modernization to improve scalability and reduce debt.
• Enable AI and analytics via trusted data foundations.
• Partner with leaders to align data initiatives with business goals.
• Manage investments, vendor relationships, budgets, and resources.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Cloud data platforms

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

SQL proficiency

Production operations

AI/Analytics enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Math

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Informatica

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Airflow

dbt

Azure Data Factory

AWS Glue

Job description

Staritas is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to lead our enterprise data strategy, platform modernization, and operational excellence. You will drive design, governance, reliability, and scalability of our data ecosystem to enable analytics, AI, and business intelligence across the organization.

You will partner with executives to align data initiatives with business objectives, manage budgets and teams of managers, architects, and data engineers, and guide modernization efforts to reduce