Director Data Services

Primary Function of Position

At Intuitive our product data are the lifeblood of our business. They power the insights we surface to our various customers our product development process our service and quality systems and our internal decisionmaking. We are seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Data Engineering and Data Services to lead and scale our product data initiatives. This role will be responsible for designing and implementing a robust data infrastructure: ingesting raw data from our physical and digital products and services arranging and modeling the data extracting metrics and aggregated values and enabling seamless access to welldesigned data products for digital products and various partners within Intuitive. This basic responsibility must be delivered within the context of a global company operating in dozens of regions of varying requirements in the presence of shifting technical landscape and changing regulations with imperfect capture and transmission of data from deployed systems while under servicelevel agreements set by all stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a deep technical background strong leadership skills and a proven ability to build worldclass teams that deliver innovative businessaligned data solutions.

Essential Job Duties

• Strategic Leadership
  • Define the vision strategy and roadmap for the data engineering and data services functions to support organizational objectives.
  • Collaborate with business leaders to align data initiatives with company goals.
  • Foster a culture of datadriven decisionmaking across teams.
• Team Management
  • Build mentor and manage a highperforming team of data engineers architects and data services professionals.
  • Establish best practices in data engineering codingoperational excellence..
• Data Architecture & Infrastructure
  • Lead the design implementation and operationalization of scalable secure and reliable data pipelines warehouses and platforms.
  • Ensure data accessibility accuracy and consistency across the organization.
  • Oversee the implementation of cloudbased and servicebased data solutions (e.g. AWS Azure GCP Snowflake) to support data needs.
• Data Governance & Compliance
  • Contribute to and enforce data governance policies to ensure data privacy security and compliance with relevant regulations (e.g. GDPR CCPA).
  • Partner with stakeholders to standardize data definitions metrics and processes.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement
  • Stay ahead of emerging trends in data technologies tools and methodologies.
  • Identify opportunities to optimize data infrastructure and processes for costefficiency and performance.
  • Drive innovation in data analytics and supporting integrations (AI/ML automation etc..
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Work closely with product IT Data Analytics and A.I. and business teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions.
  • Act as a thought leader evangelizing data capabilities and driving crossfunctional collaboration.

Qualifications :

Required Skills and Experience 

Technical Expertise

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing largescale data platforms ETL pipelines and realtime streaming architectures.
• Handson experience with contemporary data technologies (e.g. Spark Kafka Snowflake Databricks etc..
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and DevOps practices.
• Proficiency in programming languages (e.g. Python Java SQL).

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Exceptional problemsolving organizational and decisionmaking skills.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
• Track record of successfully leading and growing technical teams.

Required Education and Training 

• Minimum Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Science or a related field (Masters preferred).
• 10 years of experience in data engineering or a related field with 5 years in a leadership role.

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.

We provide marketcompetitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target salary ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime