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Director of Platform Engineering
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Bellevue, WA, United States
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Are you excited about building innovative, high scale data products using a diverse set of cutting-edge technologies? Are you passionate about data and the technology needed to drive a multi-billion dollar business? Does leading a global, dynamic, and growing engineering organization energize you?
As the Director of EDW Platform Engineering, you will manage a diverse team of platform engineers delivering a highly reliable, available, scalable, multi-tenant data ecosystem. You will bring your experience and strategic thought leadership to help us define and deliver our data platform strategy, partnering with teams across the EDW organization.
In this strategic role, you will be at the forefront of our ambitious plan to build and operate a true hybrid multi-cloud data ecosystem. You will play an instrumental role delivering on our promise of undeniably easy access to data at scale, enabling speed and innovation across our business.
Responsibilities:
• You will lead the EDW Platform Engineering team responsible for our Teradata and Hadoop Platform Engineering teams and you'll spearhead the buildout of a new EDW Cloud Data Platform team and platform capabilities
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering and Architecture teams, you will provide technical direction and leadership, keeping aligned with product roadmap and EDW architectural direction
• Collaborate across EDW, eCP and Company brands you will drive ongoing improvement and platform uptake, working closely with partners to influence product strategy and contribute to the product development roadmap
• You will partner with EDW Operations to ensure effective end to end ownership and delivery of data platform availability, quality and performance
• Deliver highly reliable and trustworthy data platforms while continuously enabling a high pace of change and innovation by working upstream with development teams
• Drive and deliver platform management, monitoring, and automation tools and frameworks for use across the ecosystem
• Create and maintain tactical and strategic plans for data platform development and sustaining engineering
• Manage multiple concurrent, complex, and/or unique projects and initiatives
• Drive proof of concepts, pilots and technology evaluations to accelerate the onboarding of new technologies and solutions
• Develop strategic partner and key vendor relationships and provide input into vendor product roadmaps
• Build and foster an environment of innovation, collaboration and solid execution, ensuring the team understands strategic goals, product and future technology roadmaps
• Ensure the ongoing training and development of direct reports and develop the technical skills of the team
Skills/Requirements:
• BS in Computer Science or a related engineering field, MS preferred
• 5+ years of people management experience in an engineering, development or technology role
• 10+ years Software Development experience
• Demonstrated experience delivering data solutions in the cloud including Amazon AWS (S3, EMR, EBS, EC2…), Google Cloud Platform and related technologies, services and third-party tools
• Deep knowledge of distributed data processing and relational data platforms including Apache Hadoop and related open source projects and commercial technologies
• Effective leadership and mentoring skills and an ability to successfully define, develop, and scale engineering teams
• Extensive experience as a software engineering manager with a track record of delivery
• Experience using Agile delivery methodologies, Dev Ops and matrixed organizational models
• Effective vendor management, developing strategic vendor partnerships, and handling capital and operational budgets, resource planning and prioritization
• Effective communication and presentation skills and the ability to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate a diverse, organization with global, decentralized teams working across multiple locations
• Ability to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways, recognize opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in a vision and strategy
About Us
Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.
Company eCommerce Platform - eCP
The eCP organization was built to enable the business to scale globally while supporting the needs of our rapidly growing family of brands. The eCP team powers Company, Inc.’s travel revolution with a world class platform of ecommerce technologies and services operating at global scale. We bring product, technology, and operations together to accelerate innovation and enable test and learn, constantly pushing ourselves to evolve and innovate for the business.
EDW – Data Platforms and Services
Company Inc. is a leader in using technology to drive business results. Our mission is to power reliable, trustworthy and scalable data products, fueling decision-making and competitive advantage for Company, Inc. We use a blend of open source, custom development, and commercial tools to deliver and operate petabyte scale data platforms used across the business. Our ecosystem includes multiple cloud providers, massive Hadoop clusters, parallel databases and a broad mix of leading data management and analytics tools.
Company is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.