Director, Data Engineering

The Director, Data Engineering is one of the most strategic, high-pressure, and mission-critical roles at phData. If you're seeking a position that challenges your technical expertise, business acumen, and leadership abilities daily-this is it.

In this role, you will function as a CTO-like advisor for phData's most strategic customers. You will lead customer success, direct technical strategy, drive delivery excellence, and serve as a key stakeholder in growing long-term partnerships and revenue. This position requires a unique blend of hands-on architecture skills, executive presence, client empathy, and entrepreneurial drive.

If you thrive in highly visible, fast-paced roles where the expectations are high and the impact is massive, this is the career-defining opportunity you've been looking for.

Why This Role Matters

This role is one of the most challenging and high-impact positions at phData. As the Sr. Director, Data Engineering, you will not only be a technical leader but also a business driver, team coach, and trusted partner. You will lead from the front-turning customer ambiguity into clarity, complexity into strategy, and roadblocks into revenue.

If you are energized by solving hard problems, earning trust, and scaling impact in fast-paced environments, we want you on our team.

Your Impact

Client Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the executive-level technical leader and primary advisor for strategic customer accounts
• Act as a CTO for your accounts, guiding technology decisions, roadmaps, architecture, and platform maturity
• Build deep relationships with technical and business stakeholders, driving consensus on solutions
• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), Innovation Days, roadmap presentations, and architectural vision sessions
• Deliver clear recommendations, success criteria, and measurement frameworks for each engagement
• Step into complex or ambiguous problem spaces and provide clarity, direction, and momentum
  
  

Account Expansion & Sales Partnership

• Collaborate closely with Account Executives to create and execute growth strategies
• Identify new opportunities for phData services and lead scoping, pricing, and proposal development
• Influence buying centers, build executive relationships, and create value-based narratives for expansion
• Deeply understand customer needs and industry trends, positioning phData offerings accordingly
• Drive strategic alignment between the customer, partners (e.g., Snowflake), and internal teams
• Develop and execute multi-year technology roadmaps aligned to client business outcomes

Delivery Oversight & Quality Assurance

• Own delivery success and overall satisfaction across all projects within assigned accounts
• Ensure delivery quality through mentorship, leadership, and hands-on involvement as needed
• Provide architectural oversight, escalation management, and alignment across teams
• Build technical documentation, vision statements, solution architectures, and proofs of concept
• Drive accountability across internal and client teams through strategic, candid communication
• Lead enablement and education of delivery teams through documentation, onboarding support, and cross-training sessions

People Development & Thought Leadership

• Mentor technical consultants and engineers across the delivery organization
• Build and grow technical and communication skills across teams to elevate delivery maturity
• Identify and share delivery patterns that drive scalable, repeatable customer success
• Actively contribute to phData internal initiatives and communities of practice

Internal Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead client resource planning, forecasting, and skills alignment in partnership with Recruiting and Resourcing
• Track KPIs and metrics across engagements to measure and communicate business outcomes
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and play a key role in Practice Lead strategy discussions
• Collaborate with partner technology teams and keep the broader account team aligned and informed
• Participate in key leadership, sales, and delivery syncs to ensure alignment across functions
  
  

What We're Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience delivering complex data or AI/ML platforms in production environments
• 3+ years in a consulting leadership role with direct client ownership and revenue accountability
• Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms (Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP), modern data stacks, and MLOps tools
• Proven success growing enterprise accounts and building executive-level relationships
• Strong architectural and implementation skills in Python, SQL, dbt, and modern infrastructure tooling
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills with a strong sense of presence and clarity under pressure
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings, QBRs, and key events when necessary
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a technical, data, or business-related discipline
• Experience leading delivery within a scaled services or consulting firm
• Proficiency in partner ecosystem collaboration (especially Snowflake, AWS, dbt)
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native AI/ML tools
• Demonstrated thought leadership (e.g., blogs, speaking, open source) is a plus
  
  

Why phData? We Offer:

• Remote-First Workplace
• Medical Insurance for Self & Family
• Medical Insurance for Parents
• Term Life & Personal Accident
• Wellness Allowance
• Broadband Reimbursement
• Continuous learning and growth opportunities to enhance your skills and expertise
• Other benefits include paid certifications, professional development allowance, and bonuses for creating company-approved content