Full-Time Director of Data Engineering (Remote USA)
NielsenIQ is hiring a remote Full-Time Director of Data Engineering (Remote USA). The career level for this job opening is Manager and is accepting Texas, TX based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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As the Director, Data Engineering, you will have following key accountabilities:
- Define and enforce IT policies related to cloud security, software development and DevOps best practices to ensure scalable and secure systems
- Provide strategic support and challenge decisions through thought-provoking questions. Understand data governance; create and maintain policies and procedures while implementing data management systems and ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Simplify complex problems to make them manageable for the organization
- Drive organizational change effectively
- Foster strong cross-functional communication and collaboration
- Lead software engineering teams in cloud-native environments, particularly Microsoft Azure
- Drive the adoption of cloud best practices, microservices, and scalable architecture
- Establish coding standards, best practices, and governance policies to ensure maintainable, scalable, and secure software solutions.
- Cloud Optimization – Ensure efficient use of Azure services while optimizing performance, scalability, and cost.
- Effectively manage remote engineers
- Provide technical and organizational leadership across the engineering team
- Coach/mentor team members to encourage professional and career growth
- Strong experience leading/managing a team of software engineers to develop applications
- Ability to work closely with other leaders to scale our technology and the Engineering organization
- Ability to work closely with key internal stakeholders to develop and manage the engineering roadmap
- Ability to drive technical projects and planning
- Strong communication skills; able to disseminate information across the organization and have strategic influence
- Experience with Microsoft Power Platform or Dynamics 365 (nice to have)
- Familiarity with Azure Databricks or and PySpark (nice to have)
A minimum of 7 years’ experience developing production-grade systems. A minimum of 5 years’ experience managing developers and DevOps teams.
This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation of the following range: $92,000 - $180,000
This role might also be eligible for a Sales-based incentive or performance-based bonus.