Director, Data Warehouse Engineering

Mercury Insurance Services, LLC•Remote,

7d•$118,078 - $330,661•Remote

About The Position

Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2026! This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a true data warehouse expert to help modernize a critical enterprise platform. You’ll lead the evaluation, optimization, and future direction of an overloaded Redshift-based environment, guide major migration and architecture decisions, and partner with a sizable data engineering organization to bring the warehouse to the next level. We’re looking for a leader who combines deep technical credibility with strong strategic judgment, stakeholder influence, and a forward-looking view on how AI can improve data architecture, warehouse management, and ETL performance. Position Summary: Mercury Insurance is looking for a Director, Data Warehouse Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of our enterprise data warehouse platform. This leader will own the direction of the data warehouse engineering function and help modernize the way data is built, governed, and delivered across the company. This role combines people leadership, architectural depth, and operational excellence. You will lead teams that build and support scalable EDW data platforms, enterprise data models, and high-reliability pipelines that serve analytics, reporting, operational use cases, and AI-enabled solutions. You will partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Product, and business stakeholders to ensure Mercury’s data foundation is trusted, scalable, and aligned with business priorities. The ideal candidate brings strong experience leading data warehousing and data engineering organizations, modernizing enterprise data platforms, and driving execution across a complex environment. This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who can set vision, raise engineering standards, and develop high-performing teams while staying connected to the technical details that matter.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related technical field
15+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or related disciplines, with significant experience leading high-performing engineering teams and managers.
10+ years of strong people leadership experience, including coaching leaders, building teams, setting expectations, and creating accountability.
Proven success leading enterprise-scale data warehouse or lake house platforms in complex business environments.
Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture and data modeling.
Redesign and migration of foundational data pipelines and warehouse structures involving 1000s of tables, data pipelines and feeds.
Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders and senior leaders to prioritize roadmaps, resolve trade-offs, and deliver business value.
Lead production support for EDS and support mandatory data requirements.
Mastery of modern modeling approaches, including 3NF, dimensional, star, and snowflake patterns, with the judgment to apply the right model for the business need.
Strong understanding of operational excellence in data engineering, including testing, data quality frameworks, observability, incident reduction, and service reliability.
Expert-level proficiency in SQL and strong proficiency in Python.
Production experience with modern data engineering tools and practices, including Informatica, DBT, orchestration platforms such as Airflow, Tivoli, or Dagster, and Git-based development workflows.
Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouse or Lakehouse technologies such as Redshift, Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.
Familiarity with layered(medallion) data architecture patterns.
Strong experience with CI/CD, automation-first engineering practices, and scalable software delivery in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences without authority.
Experience using AI tools such as OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini to solve high-value operational or engineering problems.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
5 or more years of experience leading large-scale data warehouse overhauls, pipeline migrations, and performance improvement initiatives across legacy platforms and modern cloud architectures.
Strong technical and strategic background evaluating platforms such as Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, or similar technologies, with the ability to recommend a path forward and build stakeholder alignment.
Experience leading and developing data engineering organizations, including inheriting and guiding teams responsible for warehouse architecture, ETL performance, and execution at scale.
Experience with leveraging AI to drive process efficiencies across optimization, modernization, management, performance.
Master’s degree preferred.
Experience in insurance, SaaS, or marketplace environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

Define and lead the vision, roadmap, and operating model for data warehouse engineering in support of Mercury’s enterprise data strategy.
Lead multiple teams or a broader engineering function responsible for enterprise data warehouse development, data marts, core data models, and scalable data pipelines.
Drive modernization of the data platform, including data modeling standards, orchestration patterns, testing frameworks, observability, and automation to optimize efficiency.
Establish engineering standards for reliability, performance, scalability, data quality, and maintainability across the warehouse and pipeline ecosystem.
Cross-collaborate with engineering/technology and data sciences teams to establish SLAs, data contracts, and data quality standards.
Oversee the design and implementation of end-to-end data processing solutions that support enterprise reporting, business operations, data science, and AI use cases.
Partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Data Science, Architecture, and business teams to align investments, priorities, and delivery plans.
Translate business goals into a clear portfolio of data platform capabilities, delivery of roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
Lead the evolution of enterprise data models, including decisions on grain, entities, relationships, conformed dimensions, and slowly changing dimensions.
Drive a data product mindset across the organization, helping teams move from reactive ticket-based delivery to scalable, reusable data capabilities.
Build a strong engineering culture grounded in ownership, continuous improvement, automation, and disciplined execution.
Mentor and develop managers, senior engineers, and technical leads, while strengthening succession planning and organizational capability.
Build and manage multiple teams to execute on establishing data strategy.
Guide to capacity planning, prioritization, vendor and tool decisions, and resource allocation across the function.
Partner with engineering teams to productionize pipelines and integrations with strong service levels, resilience, and operational support.
Champion governance, controls, and best practices that improve trust in enterprise data and reduce manual effort and technical debt.
Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to improve developer productivity, reduce repetitive work, and accelerate delivery.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
Engaging work environment
Promotional opportunities
Education assistance
Professional and personal development opportunities
Company recognition program
Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more