Director, Data Engineering

Key Skills

Microsoft Office suites, Python Programming, SQL, Agile methodologies, DevOps, AWS, Data science techniques, JIRA, NoSQL

Job Description

We are looking for a pioneering, mission-driven, and supportive Director of Engineering to lead Engineering efforts for our Servicing Data team. The Director, Engineering oversees team’s execution of engineering strategies, implements strategic initiatives and handles multiple projects in partnership with our Product Engineering teams. We stand at cross-roads of innovation through Data Products that are harnessed by data scientists, engineers and analysts, to bring a competitive advantage to our business. Do you love building and organizing data on platforms at scale? Be the leader of our mighty and growing team of data engineers and play a key role in driving our business strategies through cutting edge Data Products.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and embody the culture, vision and overall direction of the team
• Lead, guide and evaluate the work of direct-report leaders
• Work with senior leadership to implement the strategic plan for the team
• Apply Lean/Agile values and principles to a software delivery team
• Develop and refine best practices and processes to guide teams through Agile methodology
• Make critical process improvement recommendations and think strategically
• Support the intake and prioritization process for technology work requests for the supported group of Technology teams
• Assist teams in capturing and breaking down delivery of more complex requests that require coordination between teams

Preferred Qualifications  

• 5 years of experience leading a large Data Engineering / Analytics Organization
• 8 years of experience in a product engineering role, such as Data Engineer, Product Owner or Data Analyst
• 5 years of management, leadership and administration experience
• 5 years of experience using work item tracking tools (Team Foundation Server, Jira, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite
• Nice to have - Experience working with Black Knight or similar Loan Origination projects
• Experience with migration Data Warehouse onto Cloud (AWS preferred but can be any other platform)