Senior Director Data Engineering and Infrastructure

Position Summary:

In pursuit of Audubons conservation mission the Data & Technology team partners with programmatic and business teams across the organization to develop and deploy enterprise data systems and datadriven practices at the scale needed to achieve our ambitious goals. The Senior Director Data Engineering and Infrastructure will play a key role in designing managing and continuously improving Audubons data engineering processes and products as well as our data architecture tools and systems. This role is critical to managing and maturing Audubons Data & Technology infrastructure and engineering approaches to enable us to best utilize and steward thousands of sources and uses of data across Audubon.

This role will partner with and support programmatic and business teams to identify and address data needs and opportunities through the development of data products tools and processes that enable us to effectively and efficiently utilize data to advance our mission for hemispheric level bird conservation. The Senior Director will be directly responsible for executing these activities and will lead a team of engineers within Audubon Technology operating in close partnership with the other National Audubon Society Data & Technology teams including Data Analytics; Data Strategy and Measurement; and Enterprise GIS. This role will also collaborate directly with other business teams across Audubon including Marketing and Communications Development Finance Government Affairs Conservation Equity Diversity Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB) and others.

A successful candidate will have comfort and familiarity with a broad range of data engineering tools and methods as well as strengths in engineering management project management change management and communication among technical and nontechnical stakeholders. This position reports to the Vice President of Data and Technology within the Audubon Technology team.

This is a hybrid position based in Audubons New York City or Washington DC offices. We will also consider remote candidates within the United States.

Interested candidates should attach a cover letter to be considered for this opportunity.

Examples of initiatives that the position will support are:

• Maintain and improve enterprise data architecture to support Audubons bird conservation efforts including tracking and communicating about our impact supporting the work of Conservation leaders and teams across the hemisphere and advancing Audubons policy climate and scientific goals.

• Develop and deploy data engineering and infrastructure solutions to help Audubon grow and deepen engagement with millions of supporters bird lovers and activists across the hemisphere online and offline.

• Collaborate with operational teams such as Development Marketing and Finance to build data capacity and maturity with business data analysts and executive leaders; act as a key strategic partner to identify and act on opportunities to leverage Audubons enterprise data infrastructure to efficiently and effectively address critical business needs and opportunities.

Compensation:

Salary range based on geodifferentials:

• $160926 $181041 / year National

• $181041 $203671/ year Alaska CA (not San Francisco) Connecticut D.C. Chicago Oyster Bay NY

• $201155 $226300 / year NYC (not Oyster Bay) San Francisco Seattle

Essential Functions

• Serve as a leader within Audubon Technology with primary responsibility for managing and improving data integrations infrastructure and processes that maintain alignment and improve data quality and integrity across Audubons enterprise data warehouse business systems and other internal and external data sources systems and products.

• Develop and implement flexible and scalable data engineering and infrastructure approaches tools and frameworks to enable effective and efficient development of data products to address current and emerging crossfunctional priorities and needs with a keen focus on user experience adoption and change management.

• Provide and manage ongoing data engineering support and data product development in collaboration with operational and programmatic teams across Audubon; Support and collaborate with business data analysts and users across stakeholder teams to advance team level and organizational data maturity.

• Recruit manage mentor and develop the Data Engineering team including staff and contractors to implement the activities above.

• Proactively manage and facilitate strong collaborative partnerships among technical teams and nontechnical stakeholders across the Audubon network as well as external partners vendors and professional networks in the conservation and social impact space.

• Prepare written and oral reports memos visualizations and presentations representing Audubons data strategy and data products to executives leadership teams technical and nontechnical staff and the public.

• Manage contractors and vendors including software and professional services providers; participate in budget planning and tracking; collaborate with administrative staff and IT department to administer data engineering and infrastructure tools and applications.

• Ensure that data engineering and infrastructure practices adhere to security privacy and compliance standards including data governance policies regulatory requirements and industry best practices; Implement and maintain safeguards to protect sensitive information mitigate risks and support a culture of data security awareness across the organization.

• Maintains and fosters culture of safety.

• Other jobrelated duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Masters degree in Data Engineering Computer Science Information Technology Data Science or similar discipline. 10 years of directly relevant work experience developing and managing data engineering and infrastructure and 3 years of leadership experience managing technical teams. An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

• Experience administering and utilizing modern data infrastructure tools such as cloud data warehouses (Snowflake BigQuery etc) data integration and orchestration tools (Fivetran Airflow dbt etc) business intelligence tools (PowerBI Sigma etc) CRM systems (Salesforce Everyaction etc) ERP systems (such as Workday) and other enterprise data tools (such as Airtable) is required.

• Applied experience utilizing Python SQL and other programming languages and frameworks for data engineering and infrastructure applications is required. E

• Experience developing and managing custom software for data access integration and automation in in Python .NET or other similar frameworks is strongly preferred.

• Experience developing and managing data service APIs including RESTful and GraphQL APIs for data access integration and automation is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience developing and applying technical coordination and project management best practices using tools such as Jira is required. PMP or other relevant certification preferred.

• Proven success as a data engineering and technology leader. Strong detailoriented skills including direct experience as an individual contributor and experience leading teams to move projects from conception to completion. Demonstrated ability to manage teams of technical practitioners in a workplace environment is required.

• Proven success in leading/sponsoring large data engineering and infrastructure initiatives in matrixed organizations taking product ideas from concept to design to and linking objectives and outcomes to strategic goals. Experience in defining and implementing data maturity roadmaps to transform how data delivers business value in large federated organization preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to nontechnical audiences.

• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to understand and apply product needs and requirements from a diverse set of organizational stakeholders and to communicate effectively with nontechnical collaborators.

• The ability to manage and maintain healthy vendor relationships and the ability to seek and evaluate new highquality contractors and vendors to supplement internal staff on a projectbyproject basis.

• Experience with marketing and engagement technologies and approaches including omnichannel marketing platforms social media analytics tools web analytics solutions customer data platforms voter files and other person level data acquisition and targeting tools policy and advocacy tracking tools or similar strongly preferred.

• Experience in designing and deploying business intelligence reporting decision support and data storytelling tools in conservation or other environmental or social issue spaces preferred.

• Demonstrated experience preparing effective written materials presentations and other documentation and communication materials for internal and external audiences required.

• Curiosity to stay on the cusp of software and product trends in nonprofits and the greater tech industry.

• Commitment to Audubons organizational values of care collaboration change integrity impact and innovation.

• Experience fostering inclusive and collaborative work environments is valued.

National Audubon Society Competencies: This role will also be accountable to apply and develop the following competencies.

Building Trust: Take actions that give others confidence in your intentions and see you as a truthful and reliable person who follows through on promises and commitments.

Coaching: Guide and develop individuals within the organization nurturing their professional growth and enhancing performance for the future.

Decision Making: Make decisions based on comparative data and input from various sources incorporating diverse viewpoints and insights for a holistic understanding.

Leading and Facilitating Change: Be effective in guiding managing and supporting organizational or systemic transformations including considering diverse needs and perspectives.

Strategic Leadership: Demonstrate creative problemsolving skills and articulate strategic vision to help team members and the organization achieve longterm goals.

EEO Statement

The National Audubon Society is a federal contractor and an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to a policy of nondiscrimination inclusion and equal opportunity and actively seek a diverse pool of candidates in this search.

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