Director, Data Engineering

About This Role

This role leads high-performing teams to ensure data is trusted, high-quality, well-governed, and operationally reliable across Mapfre USA. As a strategic enterprise leader, the Director strengthens Mapfre's enterprise data and AI foundation, accelerates modernization, and cultivates a culture of innovation to support advanced analytics and AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Influence development of overall objectives including long-range goals for the organization
• Exercise judgment within broadly defined policies and practices, establishing and modifying operating policies and procedures
• Ensure team assignments align with enterprise-level goals and involve long-term strategic planning, collaboration, and innovation leadership
• Serve as a strategic leader with significant influence across business units, driving cultural and capability shifts across the enterprise
• Ensure alignment of data talent strategy with organizational needs, building future leadership pipelines and fostering a high-performance team environment
• Develop and administer budgets, schedules, and performance requirements
• Oversee the full lifecycle of data—from ideation to value realization—ensuring outcomes are measurable, governed, and aligned with enterprise objectives
• Accountable for solving complex, ambiguous, and enterprise-level problems requiring data-driven solutions
• Coach, direct and develop individuals to achieve individual, departmental and company goals

Requirements

• 10+ years of leading and managing data teams
• 10+ years experience in Information Systems
• 3+ years in a management capacity
• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Computer Science preferred) or equivalent related experience
• Strong P&C insurance domain experience
• Strong expertise in data architecture, modeling, ingestion, orchestration, observability, and lifecycle management
• Understanding of insurance processes and regulatory expectations
• Knowledge of data privacy laws
• Proficiency with AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Python
• Proven project and solutions delivery management skills
• Proven experience defining and executing strategic roadmap for enterprise data solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline, preferably Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of leading and managing data teams, with a minimum of ten years experience in Information Systems and three years in a management capacity

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with AI/ML lifecycle, MLOps practices and Responsible AI best practices

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits