Director, Staff Data Engineer

Dentsu UK

New York, United States
$113,000 - $160,000; not specified; medical, visio...
Fully remote
Databricks, pyspark, azure cloud infrastructure
Lakehouse architecture, data transformation pipelines
Data governance frameworks, unity catalog policies
This role serves as the senior hands-on engineer within the Data Architecture & Solutions pillar, translating architecture strategy into scalable infrastructure and setting the code quality bar

Job Summary

  • This role serves as the senior hands-on engineer within the Data Architecture & Solutions pillar, translating architecture strategy into scalable infrastructure and setting the code quality bar.
  • Key responsibilities include architecting and building complex components of the enterprise data platform, leading the development of multi-client Databricks environments, and driving adoption of engineering standards.
  • Benefits include medical, vision, and dental insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, 401k, flexible paid time off, paid holidays, sick leave, and parental leave.

Matching Summary

This role serves as the senior hands-on engineer within the Data Architecture & Solutions pillar, translating architecture strategy into scalable infrastructure and setting the code quality bar.

Salary

$113,000 - $160,000; Not specified; Medical, vision, and dental insurance, Life insurance, Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 401k, Flexible paid time off, At least 15 paid holidays per year, Paid sick and safe leave, Paid parental leave

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Databricks, PySpark, Azure cloud infrastructure
  • Lakehouse architecture, data transformation pipelines
  • Data governance frameworks, Unity Catalog policies
  • Technical leadership, staff-level role
  • Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, Azure networking

Nice-to-have

  • Media, advertising, marketing technology background
  • Enterprise data mesh patterns
  • Power BI management at scale
  • Mentoring offshore engineering teams

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years data engineering experience
  • 2+ years technical leadership or staff-level role
  • Expert Databricks (Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, serverless)
  • Advanced PySpark and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  • Strong Azure cloud infrastructure experience
  • Data architecture knowledge (dimensional, data vault, medallion)
  • Experience defining engineering standards
  • Experience with data governance, security, compliance

Work Rights

Not specified

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