[Hiring] Director of Data Engineering @Voya Financial

Role Description

Voya Financial is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to provide hands-on technical leadership for multiple data-engineering teams supporting our Wealth business, including retirement and retail wealth capabilities. This leader will combine people leadership with deep technical judgment, helping teams make sound architecture, solution-design, and data-engineering decisions while delivering reliable end-to-end data pipelines.

This is an opportunity for an experienced data-engineering leader who still enjoys working in the technical details. You will guide engineering teams and technical leads, review designs and code, establish strong engineering practices, and collaborate with fellow data leaders on standards and initiatives that span multiple business domains.

Please note: This position allows remote work from home. East Coast location or Eastern Time working-hour alignment is strongly preferred based on the team’s collaboration model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study.
• Significant professional experience in data engineering, including progressively responsible technical and leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple data-engineering teams and/or technical leads.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, relational database concepts, and data architecture.
• Experience designing, developing, and operating modern end-to-end data pipelines.
• Experience with Databricks or a comparable modern data-processing platform, with the ability to transfer knowledge between technologies.
• Sufficient programming experience to understand and review Python or comparable data-engineering code.
• Strong understanding of data quality, error handling, observability, and engineering practices that support reliable pipelines.
• Experience contributing to technical architecture and solution-design decisions.
• Experience providing technical leadership during significant production incidents.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate across engineering teams and technical and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Lead four data-engineering teams supporting the Wealth domain, providing leadership to technical leads and a distributed engineering organization.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, solution design, implementation, and engineering quality.
• Review technical designs and code, challenge engineering decisions constructively, and help teams implement scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Guide the development and operation of end-to-end data pipelines, with a strong focus on Databricks and modern data-engineering practices.
• Establish and reinforce engineering standards for data quality, error handling, monitoring, and reliable pipeline development.
• Partner with peer data-engineering directors to establish consistent standards, practices, and procedures across data domains.
• Lead and coordinate initiatives that span engineering teams and business domains.
• Partner with internal customers, product teams, technology partners, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into effective data solutions.
• Support critical production incidents when leadership and technical expertise are needed, including problem assessment, root-cause analysis, and resolution planning.
• Develop technical talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and thoughtful leadership.
• Advance modern engineering practices, including appropriate use of automation and AI-assisted development capabilities.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans.
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%).
• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%).
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year.
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year.

Company Description

Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities. The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$168,550 - $191,850