Senior Director, Data & Analytics — Enterprise Pipelines

Grant Thornton (US); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 172,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data & Analytics Associate Director to join GTech. The role focuses on designing scalable data pipelines, incorporating archival solutions in Snowflake, and ensuring governance across enterprise systems.

You will partner with architecture and business teams to translate requirements into production data solutions and support M&A integrations. The role requires 8+ years in data engineering or related fields, deep knowledge of Snowflake and modern data platforms, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, data analytics, business or related field.
• Advanced cloud/data certifications preferred.
• 8+ years in data engineering, data integration, or related enterprise tech roles.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise data pipelines for system and data asset integration across acquired companies.
• Build ingestion, transformation, validation, and archival patterns aligned with data architecture and governance.
• Implement Snowflake archival solutions for historical reporting and data retention.
• Collaborate with data/enterprise architecture teams to follow approved patterns and metadata practices.
• Translate requirements into data pipeline designs, mappings, and deployment plans.
• Develop scalable data engineering processes for batch, incremental, and event-driven movement.
• Establish data quality checks, reconciliations, monitoring, and operational controls.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL/ELT pipelines

Snowflake

Data integration

Data architecture

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Analytics, Business, or related field

Advanced degree or cloud/data certifications preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

dbt

Informatica

Fivetran

Matillion

Airflow

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Grant Thornton is seeking a Data & Analytics Associate Director to join GTech. The role focuses on designing scalable data pipelines, incorporating archival solutions in Snowflake, and ensuring governance across enterprise systems.

You will partner with architecture and business teams to translate requirements into production data solutions and support M&A integrations. The role requires 8+ years in data engineering or related fields, deep knowledge of Snowflake and modern data platforms, and