Director, Data Engineering
Posted 3 weeks ago
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This role leads the engineering and operation of enterprise-grade data pipelines, ensuring data is trusted and reliable for analytics, AI, and product teams. The Director is responsible for developing new data capabilities, enhancing existing platforms with focus on scalability and resilience, and mentoring a team of data engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and coach managers and individual contributors, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Act as a trusted partner to stakeholders, aligning business objectives with insight strategy
- Maintain, streamline, and enhance enterprise data pipelines and landscapes
- Institute processes for data quality, consistency, curation, and single source of truth datasets
- Conduct and oversee data transformations, cleansing, classification, and preparation for analytics
- Partner with BI and Data Science teams to accelerate use case development
- Collaborate with Technology teams to modernize tools, architecture, and data platforms
- Ensure compliance with legal, privacy, and security standards
- Create and foster a community of practice for data and analytics
- Drive change management and user adoption of enterprise data repositories and pipelines
- Build agility in identifying and remediating data issues to improve reliability and speed
- Stay current on emerging trends and Agentic AI technologies in data analytics
Requirements
- 10+ years experience designing, scaling, and operating enterprise-grade data engineering platforms in big-data environments
- 3+ years in a People Leader role
- Data pipeline automation using enterprise-grade tools and frameworks
- Experience with Big Data Technologies (e.g., Hadoop)
- Metadata and data management solutions
- Building and operating enterprise-grade data warehouses across cloud and on-prem environments
- Ability to communicate complex issues effectively to varied stakeholders
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience designing, scaling, and operating enterprise-grade data engineering platforms in big-data environments, with 3+ years in a People Leader role.
Nice to Have
- Agentic AI automation within data engineering pipelines
Skills
* Required skills
Benefits
About Macy's
Macy's is a retail company with over 160 years of history, known for its innovations, traditions, and events like the 4th of July Fireworks and Thanksgiving Day Parade. They offer experiences to customers and colleagues alike.