Director, Data Engineering

Role Description

ABC Fitness is looking for a Director, Data Engineering to lead the data engineering, data architecture, data platform, and data product capabilities that power ABC Fitness Insights across our platforms. This leader will oversee teams responsible for:

• Enterprise data architecture
• Financial data marts
• Accounting data models and extractions
• ABC Insights web application
• Data modeling
• Customer data extracts
• Custom integrations
• Data sharing foundations
• Observability
• Data governance

This role is critical to how ABC delivers trusted insights to club and studio operators, corporate clients, internal business teams, and future AI-enabled product experiences. You will lead a globally distributed team across North America, India, Brazil, Europe, and contractor partners, while working closely with:

• Product
• Engineering
• Finance
• Customer-facing teams
• Security
• Operations

Success in this role means delivering reliable, scalable, secure, and well-governed data architecture and platform capabilities that help customers and internal teams make better decisions, operate more efficiently, and trust the data they use every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed data engineering and data product organization supporting ABC Fitness Insights.
• Define and evolve ABC Fitness Insights' data architecture strategy.
• Own delivery across financial data marts, accounting data models, data extractions, and the Fitness BI application.
• Set architecture standards for scalable, reliable, secure, and reusable data products.
• Drive modernization of legacy and cloud data environments.
• Set the roadmap and operating rhythm for data platform reliability and observability.
• Partner with various teams to translate data needs into scalable reporting and data products.
• Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, documentation, and observability.
• Build and develop a high-performing team through clear priorities and sustainable delivery practices.
• Strengthen ABC's AI-ready data foundation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading data engineering, BI, analytics engineering, data architecture, data platform, or data product teams.
• Deep experience designing and leading enterprise data architecture.
• Strong technical judgment across ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, and operational reliability.
• Experience owning customer-facing or business-critical data products.
• Proven ability to lead globally distributed teams.
• Experience modernizing legacy data environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong operating discipline across roadmap planning and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, Power BI, AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud data environments.
• Experience with financial data marts, accounting data models, billing data, or high-volume operational reporting.
• Experience with customer-facing BI applications, embedded analytics, or corporate client reporting.
• Experience building canonical data models, data contracts, or modern data governance programs.
• Fitness, wellness, vertical SaaS, payments, or multi-product platform experience.

Benefits

• Purpose led company with a Values focused culture – Best Life, One Team, Growth Mindset.
• Time Off – with our open PTO policy, you pick when you want time off.
• Days of Disconnect – once a quarter, we take a collective breather and enjoy a day off together.
• Parental & Pawternity Leave – leave for when your family grows by two feet or four paws.
• Fitness Perk – quarterly reimbursement for your fitness journey.
• Discounts – access to discounts with partners like Dell and Microsoft.
• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.
• EAP – support when you need it.
• Calm App +4 – subscription for you and up to 4 dependents over the age of 16.
• And more!