Director, Data Engineering

Leadership Role in Data Engineering

We're Razorfish. We've been leading the marketing industry with our digital expertise since the start of the internet. But in 2020, we did a full reboot. What's different? It all starts with people. Weird, wonderful, complex people - with diverse backgrounds in strategy, creative and technology. But no matter how different we are, we all have one thing in common. We believe our differences are our strength. So we push for inclusion, challenge convention and bring in new perspectives, to inspire new ideas. Because when we connect by understanding what makes people different, we can create unforgettable experiences that enrich lives.

This role will be a leadership role and overseeing our data engineering practice reporting to the VP of Data Engineering. This position is a mixture of hands-on architecting and developing data engineering components and providing support in career management, business development, and maturing data engineering in the region.

Core Craft Responsibilities

Provide leadership and guidance to senior data engineers and managers. Lead internal team meetings and gain a broad understand of all client work. Mentor senior resources on seeing the big picture across clients and not just the task given to them. Additionally, help senior resources see beyond client work such as scoping and allocations. Deliver quality work on defined tasks with little oversight and direction. Ensure all deliverables are of high quality throughout the project by adhering to coding standards and best practices and participating in code reviews. Serve as an architect and provide guidance during software development life cycle to solve business issues through the process of identifying and analyzing detailed requirements that translate into data integration and database system designs. Use information gained through prior experience, knowledge sharing with other Technology Associates, education and training to resolve issues and remove project barriers. Provide status updates to team members on a regular basis and clearly escalate issues and risks to project management as needed. Play a more primary role in BD pitches, RFP responses, and estimating data engineering components of projects.

Client Exposure

Serves as client team lead on medium media account managing $20+ million in total media spend. Conceives, negotiates and presents cross platform or large scale media proposals to clients.

Business Development

Responsible for upselling services. Key participant in business development for media pitches.

Team Leadership

Leads multiple direct reports. Lead and supervise client team, including hiring, training, staffing, coaching and evaluating performance. Attends and represents clients at industry events. Present in team meetings and represents the Data Engineering Teams across the organization. Helps with POV writing, responsible for client-specific POVs.

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science, mathematics, or equivalent education/professional experience is required. 10+ years within the data industry and 7+ years in leadership roles. Experience creating project estimations, budgets, and working with various stakeholders to understand and drive business requirements. Experience and ability to be client-facing and supporting BD pitches and presentations. Experience managing other engineers and providing career management guidance, reviews, etc. Experience in various data technologies with strong experience in ETL, data warehousing, and Big Data space. Experience architecting solutions in the cloud. Must have deep knowledge in data technologies in GCP with Azure, AWS, or Databricks also desired. Experience building, testing, and deploying data models using dbt desired. Experience with ML and/or AI services (i.e. Spark, AWS ML, Tensorflow, etc.) a plus. Experience with data modeling, warehouse design, and fact/dimension concepts. Experience architecting and building data marts, warehouses, etc. Experience working with different query languages (i.e. PL-SQL, T-SQL). Understanding of development and project methodologies. Able to work in a fast-paced, technical environment. Good verbal and written communication skills.