Director, Data Engineering

Role Description

Join ABC Fitness and become part of a culture that’s as ambitious as it is authentic. Let’s transform the future of fitness—together!

• Lead a globally distributed data engineering and data product organization supporting ABC Fitness Insights, including direct reports and contractor teams across North America, India, Brazil, Europe, and other supported locations.
• Define and evolve ABC Fitness Insights' data architecture strategy, including data models, platform patterns, integration approaches, data marts, data sharing foundations, and governance standards.
• Own delivery across financial data marts, accounting data models, data extractions, the Fitness BI application, canonical/master data models, custom integrations, data sharing foundations, and data governance.
• Set architecture standards for scalable, reliable, secure, and reusable data products across financial, customer, member, operational, and product data domains.
• Drive modernization of legacy and cloud data environments while maintaining stability for business-critical reporting, billing, accounting, and customer-facing workflows.
• Set the roadmap and operating rhythm for data platform reliability, observability, pipeline performance, incident response, and production support.
• Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, Security, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into scalable reporting, extracts, dashboards, integrations, and data products.
• Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, documentation, observability, security, privacy, and responsible data sharing.
• Build and develop a high-performing team through clear priorities, coaching, accountability, hiring, feedback, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Strengthen ABC's AI-ready data foundation by improving the accuracy, consistency, accessibility, architecture, and governance of data used for analytics, automation, and intelligent product experiences.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading data engineering, BI, analytics engineering, data architecture, data platform, or data product teams in a SaaS, technology, payments, or data-intensive business.
• Deep experience designing and leading enterprise data architecture, including data modeling, data marts, integration patterns, cloud data platforms, governance, scalability, security, and performance.
• Strong technical judgment across ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, BI/reporting, data integrations, data quality, observability, and operational reliability.
• Experience owning customer-facing or business-critical data products, not just internal pipelines or reporting workflows.
• Proven ability to lead globally distributed teams across multiple time zones, with strong operating rhythms, clear communication, and effective cross-region handoffs.
• Experience modernizing legacy data environments while keeping financial, customer, or operational reporting stable and trusted.
• Strong understanding of data governance, including quality, lineage, access controls, documentation, privacy, security, and client-facing data sharing.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Finance, Product, Engineering, customer-facing teams, and senior leaders.
• Strong operating discipline across roadmap planning, prioritization, delivery management, incident response, metrics, 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, payments data, or high-volume operational reporting.
• Experience with customer-facing BI applications, embedded analytics, DaaS, data sharing, or corporate client reporting.
• Experience building canonical data models, customer/member data models, master data models, data contracts, observability frameworks, 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 when it’s best for you!
• Days of Disconnect – once a quarter, we take a collective breather and enjoy a day off together around the globe. #oneteam.
• Parental & Pawternity Leave – we offer leave for when your family grows by two feet or four paws!
• Fitness Perk – we are committed to meeting you wherever you are in your fitness journey with a quarterly reimbursement.
• Discounts – access to discounts with our partners, such as Dell, Microsoft & many more.
• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.
• EAP – we get you help when you need it. Period.
• Calm App +4 – enjoy tranquility with a Calm App subscription for you and up to 4 dependents over the age of 16.
• And more! – so many benefits we couldn’t even fit them all here!