Hybrid Senior Director, Data Engineering – Architecture

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About the role

  • Senior data leader managing the enterprise data architecture at Breakthru Beverage. Leading high-performing teams in data engineering and defining modern data strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Build, hire, and lead a high-performing team of data engineers and architects, setting clear expectations, standards, and accountability.
  • Define and own the multi-year data engineering and enterprise data architecture strategy.
  • Build, lead, and mature BBG’s Data Engineering function responsible for the Snowflake data platform, ingestion pipelines, data transformations, and reusable enterprise data assets.
  • Define the enterprise data architecture roadmap across ingestion patterns, canonical modeling, data products, MDM alignment, semantic layers, and AI-ready structures.
  • Act as a hands-on technical leader, setting the engineering bar through direct involvement in complex technical challenges and critical architectural decisions.
  • Collaborate with BBG’s business functions to translate their needs into scalable data architecture and engineering deliverables.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, information technology or related work experience.
  • 15+ years of experience in data engineering, enterprise data architecture, or software engineering, with 8+ years in an engineering or architecture leadership role.
  • Proven experience building, leading, and scaling high-performing engineering and architecture teams.
  • Deep experience architecting and operating modern cloud data platforms - ideally Snowflake on AWS.
  • Hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, data modeling, ELT pipelines, dbt, orchestration frameworks (Airflow/MWAA), and DevOps tooling such as GitLab CI/CD.
  • Strong experience designing enterprise-wide data architecture, including canonical models, domain-driven data products, semantic layers, and MDM integrations.
  • Familiarity with SAP ECC/S/4 data structures and integration approaches (ODP, IDocs, APIs) is a plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to define architectural standards, influence engineering teams, and drive alignment across IT, business partners, and external vendors.
  • Experience enabling AI/ML use cases through well-designed data pipelines, feature stores, vector-enabled data sets, or integration with AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock) or Snowflake (Cortex) AI services.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to guide decisions, simplify complexity, and represent data engineering and architecture at all levels of the organization.

Benefits

  • This position is eligible to participate in a bonus program.
  • This position is eligible for health care benefits.
  • Life insurance.
  • Time off benefits.
  • Participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan.

Job title

Senior Director, Data Engineering – Architecture

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$168,000 - $220,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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