[Hiring] Senior Director - Data Engineering @phData

Role Description

The Senior Director, Data Engineering is one of the most strategic, high-pressure, and mission-critical roles at phData. If you're seeking a position that challenges your technical expertise, business acumen, and leadership abilities daily—this is it.

• Function as a CTO-like advisor for phData’s most strategic customers
• Lead customer success, direct technical strategy, and drive delivery excellence
• Serve as a key stakeholder in growing long-term partnerships and revenue
• Blend hands-on architecture skills, executive presence, client empathy, and entrepreneurial drive
• Lead from the front—turning customer ambiguity into clarity, complexity into strategy, and roadblocks into revenue

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience delivering complex data or AI/ML platforms in production environments
• 3+ years in a consulting leadership role with direct client ownership and revenue accountability
• Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms (Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP), modern data stacks, and MLOps tools
• Proven success growing enterprise accounts and building executive-level relationships
• Strong architectural and implementation skills in Python, SQL, dbt, and modern infrastructure tooling
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills with a strong sense of presence and clarity under pressure
• Willingness to travel for customer meetings, QBRs, and key events when necessary

Requirements

• Advanced degree in a technical, data, or business-related discipline (preferred)
• Experience leading delivery within a scaled services or consulting firm (preferred)
• Proficiency in partner ecosystem collaboration (especially Snowflake, AWS, dbt) (preferred)
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native AI/ML tools (preferred)
• Demonstrated thought leadership (e.g., blogs, speaking, open source) is a plus (preferred)

Benefits

• Remote-First Work Environment
• Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
• Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
• Competitive compensation, excellent benefits, 4 weeks PTO plan plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
• Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certification