Director of Data Engineering & Architecture

Description:

The Vision Our company is the backbone of digital transformation for global hospitality brands. Having established Snowflake as our core engine for customer-facing data products, we are now entering a "scale-up" phase. We are looking for a visionary leader to evolve our data architecture—ensuring it is not only performant for today's high-concurrency needs but also "AI-ready" for tomorrow's predictive hospitality features. Core Responsibilities 1.

Architectural Evolution & Scalability Future-Proofing:

Partner with our architects to refine our Snowflake implementation, focusing on long-term scalability and operational elegance for transactional-style data applications.

AWS Integration:

Ensure seamless synergy between our Snowflake data layer and our broader AWS-hosted application stack , optimizing for data gravity, latency, and cost-efficiency.

Interoperability & Sharing:

Explore and implement advanced data-sharing protocols—including Delta Sharing —to facilitate secure, frictionless data exchange between our platform and various customer environments. 2.

Product-Led Innovation Advanced Capability Roadmap:

Lead the strategic adoption of Snowpark and Cortex to integrate ML-driven insights directly into our product offerings.

Customer-Centric Architecture:

Collaborate with Product leaders to ensure our data structures support key "willingness-to-pay" features, performing rigorous ICP analysis before scaling new capabilities.

Analytical Growth:

Enable internal teams (Sales, Marketing, and Finance) to leverage product usage data to drive better business decisions and global growth strategies. 3.

Organizational Leadership & CoE Building Global Team Evolution:

Lead and mentor a specialized team of Engineers and Architects currently located globally, with the strategic goal of consolidating and growing a Center of Excellence (CoE) in India.

Collaborative Leadership:

Act as a key peer to Engineering and Product Directors, ensuring that data architecture is never a silo but a core component of the broader product roadmap.

Compliance Awareness:

Work alongside the CISO organization to ensure our architecture remains "Privacy-by-Design" across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Requirements:

Technical Breadth :

12+ years in Data/Software Engineering, with a heavy emphasis on AWS ecosystem and Snowflake.

Hybrid Strategy :

Experience with Databricks or the Delta Sharing protocol is highly valued for cross-platform data exchange strategies.

Architectural Grit :

A "Player-Coach" who can mentor senior architects and contribute to high-level design discussions regarding Unistore and hybrid workloads.

Global Leadership :

Proven ability to manage distributed teams and navigate the cultural/operational aspects of consolidating functions into a Hub/CoE model.

Industry Context :

Experience in hospitality, FinTech, or high-volume SaaS is a significant advantage.