Director, Data Engineering

TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

The Director of Data Engineering is responsible for defining and executing the long-term technical strategy of the enterprise data platform while ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable day-to-day operations. This role combines deep technical leadership, architecture ownership, client engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and team management.

Requirements

• 7 + years of experience in data architecture, cloud-based data infrastructure, distributed systems, and building reliable data pipelines that support analytics and AI/ML workloads.
• Strong expertise in data architecture, cloud data platforms, and building scalable data pipelines using technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, or Spark.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines.
• Proven engineering leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience aligning data strategy with business outcomes.
• Bachelor's in computer science, computer information or any related discipline with equivalent combination of work and experience. (required)
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in regulated industries such as healthcare or education.
• Background in cloud cost optimization and platform modernization.
• Master's in computer science, computer information or any related discipline

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of data pipelines, platform enhancements, and large-scale data solutions.
• Review engineering designs, remove technical blockers, and lead architectural decision-making.
• Ensure all technical solutions support scalability, performance, reliability, and cost-efficient operations.
• Define the long-term data platform vision, including data lake/warehouse strategy, governance frameworks, data modeling, and technology tooling.
• Drive strategic alignment between platform architecture and organizational goals.
• Establish and enforce architectural standards ensuring consistency and future platform growth.
• Own the overall technical strategy while managing critical operational priorities.
• Define and approve technical and behavioral acceptance criteria.
• Participate in client VOC discussions to gather requirements.
• Lead architecture and system design reviews.
• Guide engineering best practices.
• Drive cloud cost-optimization efforts.
• Partner with business leaders to define ROI and platform investment impact.
• Develop and manage budget for the department, including employee, contractor and cloud spending.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, ML, engineering, and executive leadership.
• Translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Influence roadmap prioritization based on business and technical needs.
• Participates in focused technical discussions with key clients.
• Act as a technical and business liaison with vendors.
• Ensure platform reliability, data quality, observability, and compliance.
• Lead governance activities including audits and access reviews.
• Serve as the ISO audit point of contact.
• Hire, mentor, and develop data engineering talent.
• Establish performance expectations and foster a culture of quality and accountability.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision plans 100% paid for employees and family members without coverage, which start from day one!
• Life and AD&D
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Medical, Dependent Care, and Transportation
• 401 (k) Retirement Savings
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Military Paid Leave (up to 6 months of base salary while on military leave)
• Paid Time Off
• Paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees