Director of Data Engineering (Remote)

We are currently seeking a Director of Data Engineering to transform the way that Lakeshore uses its data to make decisions. Reporting to the Vice President of IT, you will be the lead technical resource of the team. In this role, you will establish a solid foundation of data that will result in improved business efficiency and provide executives with situational awareness. The position also requires you to be the front line of contact with internal customers, therefore executive presence and a customer-first approach is critical. Your team will be a mix of local and offshore resources that work on large enterprise applications and small ad-hoc requests. Applicants should be highly skilled at coordinating timelines, cross-functional resources and priorities to ensure programs are delivered on time. The ideal candidate also possesses extensive experience in data engineering, cloud data warehousing, data architecture and business intelligence.A day on the job looks like this:End-to-end responsibility for the data collection, transformation, architecture, storage, governance and usage of Lakeshore dataSet the path to the future of a mature, scalable data environmentBuild and govern standards for data and developmentLead the architecture of the data lake, data warehouse, data models, data marts and data fabric, including the selection of the tools and support partnersWork with ETL/ELT, Solutions Architecture and Infrastructure resources to define a scalable, fault-tolerant and near real-time set of data assets that will supply our business users with trustworthy and available dataManage the process of external and internal data integrations into the data warehouse and BI platformsInfluence analytics super-users, BI developers, data engineers and eventually data scientists to be great data citizensImprove data and analytics navigation—allowing the business to easily find the insights they needSupport the data environment and drive innovation efforts with creative data science solutionsManage the vendors and negotiate renewal contractsParticipate in developing department business processes, roles and responsibilities, and overall team strategyRecruit, train, develop and retain excellent talent