Director - Data Engineering & Transformation

Location: Remote (multi-time-zone team)

Reports to: Sr Director of Technology, Service Delivery

Role Type: Full-Time | Hands-On Leadership | Strategic + Execution

Role Overview:

- This role combines Data Engineering leadership with enterprise transformation ownership.

- You will lead a distributed data engineering and automation team while personally driving architecture, modernization, and high-impact delivery.

- You are accountable for turning legacy-heavy, labor-intensive systems into modern, automated, cloud-native platforms that measurably reduce cost, risk, and friction across the business.

- This is not a pure people-management role and not a strategy-only role. You will design, code, refactor, automate, govern, and communicate.

- You'll coordinate across business, finance, and technology, translating executive goals into scalable data and automation solutions that actually ship.

- If you enjoy owning outcomes end-to-end, modernizing messy environments, and leading from the front-this role fits.

Key Responsibilities:

- Leadership, Strategy & Delivery

- Data Architecture & Platform Modernization

- Automation & Transformation Portfolio Ownership

- Hands-On Engineering & Execution

- Best Practices & Governance

- Stakeholder & Executive Engagement

Required Qualifications:

- 12+ years in data engineering, enterprise technology, or automation leadership.

- 5+ years leading teams and major initiatives in complex, multi-system environments.

- Proven success leading distributed, remote teams across time zones.

- Deep hands-on expertise with:

- SQL (expert-level)

- Python and/or Scala

- ELT/ETL frameworks (dbt, Airflow, Dagster, etc.)

- Azure Data Factory

- Snowflake

- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)

- Orchestration, CI/CD, automation, and containerized workloads

- Demonstrated success modernizing legacy platforms and eliminating significant technical debt.

- Strong understanding of automation platforms (RPA, workflow orchestration, integration tooling).

- Experience aligning technology initiatives with financial operations, controls, and efficiency goals.

- Excellent communicator - able to simplify complex systems for executives without dumbing them down.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Background in Financial Services, Accounting Outsourcing, SaaS, or BPO environments.

- Familiarity with accounting workflows, shared-services models, and compliance controls.

- Experience building internal platforms or self-service data and automation tooling.

- Strong vendor management and budgeting experience with documented cost-reduction outcomes.

- Experience with data governance, lineage, auditability, and regulatory environments.