Title: Director, Sr. Manager, Manager of Data Engineering
Location: Conshohocken PA 3 days onsite Per Week
Job Type: Fulltime / Permanent
From organizations that have recently:
- Implemented Snowflake
- Modernized a data warehouse
- Migrated data platforms
- Built self-service data capabilities
- Established enterprise data governance
- Created AI-ready data ecosystems
MUST HAVE REQUIREMENTS
Snowflake (Most Important Requirement)
Candidate must have deep Snowflake experience.
Looking for someone who has:
- Built or significantly contributed to a Snowflake implementation from the ground up.
- Owned enterprise Snowflake architecture and strategy.
- Led Snowflake adoption, governance, scalability, and optimization efforts.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake data architecture and enterprise design patterns.
- NOT looking for candidates who simply used Snowflake as a reporting tool or wrote occasional queries.
DBT
Must have hands-on experience with:
- DBT (Data Build Tool)
- Building transformations
- Data modeling
- Development and maintenance of enterprise data models
Data Platform Architecture
Strong experience with:
- Enterprise data architecture
- Data platform ownership
- Data engineering leadership
- Data migrations
- Data governance
- Data distribution
- Enterprise data modeling
- Semantic layer design
- Data quality and lineage
Data Engineering & Data Movement
Must have experience designing and managing:
- Enterprise data pipelines
- Data movement strategies
- Internal and external data consumption
- Data sharing frameworks
- Data integration architecture
Experience with:
Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Governed SFTP environments
Snowflake Data Share
Data feeds to third parties
Secure data exchange platforms
AI & Self-Service Data
Seeking candidates who understand:
- AI-enabled data products
- Self-service analytics
- Data readiness for AI
- Data governance supporting AI initiatives
- Data lineage and trust models
- Need practical experience applying data platforms to support future AI initiatives.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Ideal
- 10+ years of experience
- Director-level leadership
- Enterprise data platform ownership
- Multiple large-scale data initiatives
- Snowflake implementation leadership experience
Absolute Minimum
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Strong technical depth in Snowflake and data engineering
MANAGEMENT EXPECTATIONS
Ideal Candidate
- Several years of formal people management experience
- Led Data Engineering or Data Platform teams
- Comfortable balancing:
- Technical strategy
- Delivery execution
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
Secondary Profile
If the market proves challenging:
- Strong Team Lead may be considered
- Hands-on technical leader
- Mentored engineers
- Influenced strategy without direct reports
- Client could potentially consider a Manager-level candidate if they possess exceptional platform architecture and Snowflake expertise.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Preferred
- Financial Services
- FinTech
- Banking
- Accounting-focused organizations
Why This Helps
Environment includes:
- Financial data
- Accounting-related data
- Investment-related data
- Regulatory and governance considerations
Regards,
Nick Arthur (Nizam)
Associate Director, Recruitment
Pull Skill Technologies Inc.
Direct: +1 551-272-o197
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