phData is looking for a Senior Director, Data Engineering to act as the technical leader for their most strategic clients, helping them overcome complex data, machine learning, and AI challenges and driving the adoption of modern data stacks.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience delivering complex data or AI/ML platforms in production environments
- Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms (Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP), modern data stacks, and MLOps tools
- Strong architectural and implementation skills in Python, SQL, dbt, and modern infrastructure tooling
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native AI/ML tools
- Must have demonstrated experience leading highly technical engineering teams or serving as the chief architect in a complex, hands-on technical environment.
- Ability to write code
- Stay up to date with the latest developments in technology
Responsibilities
- Act as the executive-level technical leader for a set of strategic clients, operating like the account’s CTO: owning technology direction, technical stakeholder relationships, and strategic alignment.
- Develop and maintain a technology strategy and roadmap tailored to the client’s goals, providing hands-on architectural guidance when needed.
- Help the client operationalize data and AI projects—ensuring ideas move from prototype to production with measurable business impact.
- Act as the ultimate owner of technical success for the client: Resolve technical and strategic escalations across delivery and act as a point of accountability for both phData and the client
- Hold delivery quality to a high standard, onboard new team members effectively, and continuously identify areas for improvement
- Track and report KPIs that demonstrate client success and business value; use data to inform strategy and improve delivery
- Educate internal teams on successful delivery patterns and contribute to phData’s internal playbooks, QBR content, and sales collaboration.
Other
- You can sit across from a Fortune 500 CTO, ask door-opening questions, and confidently recommend a roadmap that changes how they think about data or AI.
- You are client-obsessed. You know the history, business context, and org structure of whoever you work with.
- You know greatness doesn’t come from working 9 to 5.
- You know that giving and receiving feedback, internally and externally, is your fastest path to excellence and meaningful relationships.
- Travel up to 35% (client-dependent).
