Build, hire, and lead a high-performing team of data engineers and architects, setting clear expectations, standards, and accountability.
Define and own the multi-year data engineering and enterprise data architecture strategy.
Build, lead, and mature BBG’s Data Engineering function responsible for the Snowflake data platform, ingestion pipelines, data transformations, and reusable enterprise data assets.
Define the enterprise data architecture roadmap across ingestion patterns, canonical modeling, data products, MDM alignment, semantic layers, and AI-ready structures.
Act as a hands-on technical leader, setting the engineering bar through direct involvement in complex technical challenges and critical architectural decisions.
Collaborate with BBG’s business functions to translate their needs into scalable data architecture and engineering deliverables.

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, information technology or related work experience.
15+ years of experience in data engineering, enterprise data architecture, or software engineering, with 8+ years in an engineering or architecture leadership role.
Proven experience building, leading, and scaling high-performing engineering and architecture teams.
Deep experience architecting and operating modern cloud data platforms
ideally Snowflake on AWS.
Hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, data modeling, ELT pipelines, dbt, orchestration frameworks (Airflow/MWAA), and DevOps tooling such as GitLab CI/CD.
Strong experience designing enterprise-wide data architecture, including canonical models, domain-driven data products, semantic layers, and MDM integrations.
Familiarity with SAP ECC/S/4 data structures and integration approaches (ODP, IDocs, APIs) is a plus.
Demonstrated ability to define architectural standards, influence engineering teams, and drive alignment across IT, business partners, and external vendors.
Experience enabling AI/ML use cases through well-designed data pipelines, feature stores, vector-enabled data sets, or integration with AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock) or Snowflake (Cortex) AI services.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to guide decisions, simplify complexity, and represent data engineering and architecture at all levels of the organization.

Senior Director, Data Engineering – Architecture

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