Director, Data Engineering

Company Description

Hi there-at Razorfish, we're leaders in what's next. Since the dawn of the internet, we've helped brands move first through every era of transformation, defining what digital means for business and now leading brands into the age of AI. Everyone has a prediction. Razorfish has a track record.

Named a Most Innovative Agency three years running (2024-2026) by Campaign US, our work reflects a proven ability not just to anticipate what's coming, but to help our clients actively shape the future. No matter the trend or cultural moment, delivering real business impact wouldn't be possible without our people. We bring together curious, driven, and diverse thinkers who challenge convention, push boundaries, and hold a high bar for creative excellence.

If you're motivated to work alongside top performers, push the boundaries of what's possible, and help define where technology, business, and marketing are headed next-this is the place to do it.

Join us at razorfish.com.

Job Description

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.


Responsibilities

Core Craft Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and guidance to senior data engineers and managers.

• Lead internal team meetings and gain a broad understanding 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.

• Solve business issues through the process of identifying and analyzing detailed requirements that translate business requirements into technical 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
  • Serve as client team lead on medium media account managing $20+ million in total media spend.
  • Conceive, negotiate, and present 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
  • Lead multiple direct reports.
  • Lead and supervise client team, including hiring, training, staffing, coaching and evaluating performance.
  Agency Leadership
  • Attend and represent clients at industry events.
  • Present in team meetings and represents the Data Engineering Teams across the organization.
  • Help with POV writing, responsible for client-specific POVs.

Qualifications

Core Craft Skills

• 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.

Additional Information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources.

Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:
Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
Tuition Assistance
Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
Matching Gifts programs
Flexible working arrangements
'Work Your World' Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $135,375.00 - USD $216,684.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/1/2028.