Senior Director, Data & Marketing Tech

Dept Holding B.V.; United States; On-site; USD 138,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

PTO

Paid company holidays

Job summary

DEPT® is seeking a Director, Data Technology to lead the data and measurement ecosystem for client work. You will guide data platforms, governance, and scalable infrastructure, merging marketing tech and data strategy with hands-on execution across cloud services.

You will own the Looker semantic layer, drive end-to-end BI/MarTech architecture, and mentor a team to deliver trusted analytics at scale. Remote US-based leadership is expected.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in data engineering, analytics, or marketing technology, including senior leadership of technical work and teams.
• A track record as both strategist and practitioner who stays hands-on.
• Deep, hands-on experience across Snowflake and BigQuery- modeling, performance, governance, and cost, and strong SQL.
• Demonstrated Looker / LookML expertise as a primary visualization and semantic layer.
• Strong Python skills, with proven ETL/ELT design and hands-on experience across AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
• Subject-matter-level command of the marketing data stack, tag management, CDPs, server-side tracking, CAPI / Enhanced Conversions / Offline Conversion Import, Consent Mode, with the depth to set strategy, direct specialists, and speak with authority in front of clients.
• Working command of privacy and consent regulation (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR) and its practical impact on tracking and measurement.
• Strong communication skills across executive, client, and engineering audiences.

Responsibilities

• Data Vision: Own the multi-quarter data technology roadmap across both BI and MarTech, aligned to the client’s business goals.
• Trusted Advisor: Act as the senior technical voice in the relationship, translating business questions into measurable data problems and technical realities into language executives can act on.
• Architecture Authority: Serve as the final word on architecture decisions, measurement methodology, and data-quality calls across the practice.
• Pragmatic Delivery: Balance near-term delivery with the long-term discipline of a maintainable, well-governed ecosystem.
• Warehouse Ownership: Architect the BI stack end to end, covering ingestion, transformation, modeling, and activation, across Snowflake and BigQuery.
• Hands-On Engineering: Write the Python, design the models, stand up the AWS/GCP/ETL plumbing, and review the team’s code.
• Governed Self-Serve: Own Looker / LookML as the governed semantic layer and primary visualization surface, driving toward trusted self-serve analytics.
• Healthy at Scale: Set the practices that keep a warehouse sound: modeling conventions, access governance, cost management, and pipeline observability.

Skills

Snowflake

BigQuery

Looker LookML

Python

ETL/ELT

AWS/GCP

Data governance

SQL

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Matillion

dbt

Fivetran

Airflow

Job description

DEPT® is seeking a Director, Data Technology to lead the data and measurement ecosystem for client work. You will guide data platforms, governance, and scalable infrastructure, merging marketing tech and data strategy with hands-on execution across cloud services.

You will own the Looker semantic layer, drive end-to-end BI/MarTech architecture, and mentor a team to deliver trusted analytics at scale. Remote US-based leadership is expected.