Director - Engineering

What you'll do:

- Collaborate with your team and the Product team, driving the technical vision and roadmap for your product area

- Establish strong technical and motivated engineering teams that deliver extraordinary output and continuously look for improvements

- Design, architect, and deliver highly scalable, reusable, and innovative product features

- Set directions for your team and help guide them with scaling and performance related challenges

- Strategize development, working across teams and tracking work in each sprint

- Build a 3rd party ecosystem by enabling 3rd parties to build these integrations into APIs, SDKs, and provide certification programs

- Partner with product managers and technical leads to initiate cross-functional collaboration with development teams throughout Alation to gather feedback and requirements

- Build the technical and cultural foundations of our engineering team

- Design and solidify the software development processes

- Initiate and own your projects

Requirements:

- 7+ years of hands-on engineering management experience in an agile environment and overall 14+ years of industry experience

- Entrepreneurial minded who have scaled enterprise B2B software products and thrive in a high paced environment

- Flexible to react to changing priorities and able to prioritize and deliver in a deadline driven environment

- Knowledge of the data management, analytics, BI space (or able to learn about it deeply and fast)

- Experience designing integrations across the data landscape (databases, etl systems, reporting, etc.)

- Experience in architecting, developing, and shipping software products and/or services with a distributed backend

- Experience managing multi-site teams and times zones is very desirable

- Experience in microservices architecture, workflow frameworks, messaging frameworks and rules engines is a big plus

- Have experience integrating systems with high throughput and have scaled systems in an Agile development environment.

- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field

You- ll be a great fit if...

- You live and breathe data- You come from a data-oriented landscape / ecosystem such as (Databases, ETL Systems, Reporting / Visualization tools, Data analytics tools, Metastores (other catalogs) )

- You're passionate about making the world a more curious and intelligent place

- You're humble and thoughtful, but a vocal advocate for our users and customers, able to fight for the course of action that the data and our values show is right

- You're driven to learn new things and grow

- You're able to balance conflicting demands- optimizing for the short- and long-term, for end-users and business sponsors, for foundational technologies and bespoke applications, etc.- and can communicate clearly about such trade-offs

- You have a deeply analytical mindset, yet you're able to combine quantitative analysis and logic with a human touch

- You like to seek diverse perspectives to drive bottom-up innovation and create buy-in from all technical stakeholders inside and outside the team.

- You think holistically in order to ensure the team fully understands their goals and objectives

- You like to have fun with your colleagues, in and out of the office