Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC); Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WorkFlex

Comprehensive benefits package

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC) seeks a Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering to define and execute the enterprise data platform vision and roadmap. Lead scalable, secure data capabilities enabling analytics, AI, and BI across ARC.

You will mentor a high-performing team, partner with business leaders to translate priorities into platform capabilities, and drive modernization and governance across the data ecosystem. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10+ years in data engineering, data platform, or enterprise data architecture roles with 5+ years in leadership.
• Experience building and scaling enterprise data platforms and leading data engineering teams.
• Experience with modern data platform technologies (cloud data warehousing, ETL/ELT, data lake/lakehouse).
• Ability to partner with business and product stakeholders to translate needs into technical roadmaps.
• Strong workforce planning and organizational development skills.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and advance ARC's enterprise data platform to meet current and future needs across data products, analytics, and operations.
• Partner with data product teams and business stakeholders to develop strategic roadmaps.
• Define and execute multi-year data engineering capability and workforce strategy.
• Lead and develop a high-performing data engineering organization.
• Collaborate with AI engineering teams to enable AI initiatives.
• Work with Corporate Security to define data privacy, compliance, access controls, and retention policies.

Skills

Leadership

Data architecture

Data platform

Cloud data warehousing

ETL/ELT pipelines

Stakeholder collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

About The Role

It's a great time to join us at Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC)! ARC accelerates the growth of global air travel by delivering forward-looking travel data, flexible distribution services and other innovative industry solutions. We are a leading travel intelligence company with the world’s largest, most comprehensive global airline ticket dataset, including more than 15 billion passenger flights. By working here, you can contribute to solutions and expertise that strengthen economies and enrich lives. We think big, embrace challenges and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.

Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering

We are looking for a talented Senior Director, Data Platform Engineering to define and execute the strategic vision and roadmap for the enterprise data platform. In this role, you will drive the development and operation of scalable, secure, and resilient data capabilities that enable analytics, AI, and business intelligence across the organization. You will provide technology leadership for data platform engineering, establish standards and best practices, and ensure delivery excellence through effective portfolio management, governance, and oversight. You will work closely with business and technology leaders to translate business priorities into platform capabilities, drive modernization and innovation initiatives, and ensure the successful execution, performance, and evolution of the organization's data platform ecosystem.

What You'll Get To Do

• Enterprise Data Platform Ownership: Set the technology vision and lead execution of the enterprise data platform portfolio to ensure delivery excellence, platform resiliency, and operational efficiency. Own and advance ARC's enterprise data platform, to ensure it is architected, built, and scaled to meet the current and future data needs of ARC's data products, analytics, and business operations — not any single product or team. Champion modernization initiatives spanning data integration, ingestion, quality, observability, automation, and AI-ready architecture to support advanced analytics and digital objectives.
• Strategic Technology Partnership: Serve as the front-end technology partner to ARC's data product organization and other business stakeholders to develop strategic roadmaps to meet commercial and enterprise objectives as well as advance core platform capabilities. Partner & collaborate across business divisions, data products, and technology to ensure the data platform enables current initiatives while proactively building toward future enterprise needs.
• Data Engineering Capability & Workforce Strategy: Define and execute a multi-year data engineering capability and workforce strategy — including team structure, skills, and staffing — to ensure the function can meet growing enterprise demand.
• Team Leadership: Lead and develop data engineering organization, building a high-performing team to foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Champion AI Enablement: Act as a critical partner to the AI engineering teams to ensure our data infrastructure and practices are optimized to support and accelerate AI.
• Enhance Data Security and Governance: Partner with Corporate Security to define and implement policies and systems to safeguard data privacy, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive information. Ensure robust data access controls, audit trails, and data retention policies.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform, or enterprise data architecture roles, including 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling enterprise data platforms and leading data engineering teams.
• Experience with modern data platform technologies (e.g., cloud data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, data lake/lakehouse architectures).
• Proven ability to partner with business and product stakeholders to translate needs into technical roadmaps.
• Strong workforce planning and organizational development skills.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

What We Can Offer You

• Joining ARC means joining a team that is motivated, diverse, creative, collaborative and solutions-oriented. We think big, embrace challenges, and explore new ideas to lead the way for the travel industry.
• Our employees value the hands-on learning and professional development opportunities that allow them to expand their skills and grow their career in new, dynamic ways.
• ARC offers WorkFlex. WorkFlex is ARC’s hybrid work program which offers eligible employees the flexibility to work from home while also requiring in office workdays throughout the year to foster collaboration and connection throughout the organization. We’ve designed WorkFlex to enable employees to succeed and thrive while maintaining strong connections to one another and ARC - both of which are critical to our shared success.
• We offer a highly competitive, comprehensive benefits package so you can worry less and focus on what truly matters. Please click here to review our benefits on our company website.
• By joining ARC, you will partner with top minds in the industry as we use data and technology to innovate how the world travels.

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, allowing for meaningful future salary growth within the position.

EOE M/F/D/V Females and Minorities Encouraged to Apply