Remote Senior Director Data Engineering & Architecture

BCD; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Room to Grow

Everyone has a voice

Make your move

Healthcare & retirement benefits

Travel and hotel discounts

Job summary

BCD M&E is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering and Architecture to lead the strategy, design, and delivery of modern data platforms across AWS and Azure, powering analytics and smarter business decisions. This hands‑on leadership role blends technical depth with strategic vision and will guide teams across cloud, data governance, and platform reliability.

You will shape the data ecosystem, drive platform modernization, and partner with business units to translate complex data

Qualifications

• Leading enterprise data engineering and architecture with a balance of strategic vision and hands‑on technical depth
• Building scalable, cloud‑native data platforms across AWS and Azure, including batch, streaming, and real‑time workloads
• Writing and guiding development in Python, SQL, Spark, and PySpark to deliver reliable, high‑performing data solutions
• Establishing strong standards for data modeling, governance, observability, security, performance, and lifecycle management
• Partnering across technical and business teams, mentoring distributed teams, and translating complex technical concepts into clear business value

Responsibilities

• Leading enterprise data engineering and architecture with a balance of strategic vision and hands‑on technical depth
• Building scalable, cloud‑native data platforms across AWS and Azure, including batch, streaming, and real‑time workloads
• Writing and guiding development in Python, SQL, Spark, and PySpark to deliver reliable, high‑performing data solutions
• Establishing strong standards for data modeling, governance, observability, security, performance, and lifecycle management
• Partnering across technical and business teams, mentoring distributed teams, and translating complex technical concepts into clear business value

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

PySpark

Data modeling

Governance

Observability

Security

Performance

Lifecycle management

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Git

CI/CD

Job description

BCD M&E is seeking a Senior Director of Data Engineering and Architecture to lead the strategy, design, and delivery of modern data platforms across AWS and Azure, powering analytics and smarter business decisions. This hands‑on leadership role blends technical depth with strategic vision and will guide teams across cloud, data governance, and platform reliability.

You will shape the data ecosystem, drive platform modernization, and partner with business units to translate complex data