Director of Engineering - Data Platform
Director of Engineering - Data Platform
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Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps Flexera provides awardwinning dataoriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO) enabling IT finance procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer supplier and industry data powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint in hybrid environmentsfrom onpremises to SaaS to containers to cloud.
Were transforming the software industry. Were Flexera. Withmore than 50000 customersacross the world were achievingthat goal.Butwe knowwe cant do any of that without our team.Ready to help us reimagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans Come and see whywere consistently recognized by Gartner Forrester and IDCas a category leader in the marketplace.Learn more at
At Flexera were on a mission to empower global enterprises by transforming IT insights into decisive actions. We are seeking a Director of Engineering with deep expertise in building and operating largescale data platforms with a strong emphasis on Databricks lakehouse architectures. This is a key leadership role responsible for setting the strategy driving innovation and scaling a worldclass data platform that powers analytics AI/ML and product development across Flexera.
As a senior engineering leader you will define and execute the data platform roadmap partnering closely with architects product management data science and infrastructure teams. You will guide and empower engineering teams to seamlessly integrate and deliver scalable performant and secure data capabilities on top of our Databricks lakehouse foundation. The ideal candidate combines technical depth in modern big data technologies with exceptional leadership crossfunctional collaboration and operational excellence.
What youll do:
- Define and execute the data platform strategy and roadmap aligned with Flexeras business and product objectives.
- Partner with architects and Principal Engineers to establish technical vision architecture guardrails and best practices for Databricks lakehouse implementations.
- Lead and grow a team of engineers fostering a culture of innovation high performance and continuous learning.
- Drive platform scalability reliability governance and cost efficiency enabling analytics AI/ML and product innovation at scale.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with Product Analytics Data Science and Infrastructure to align priorities define requirements and ensure timely delivery of data capabilities.
- Oversee the adoption and optimization of key technologies including Databricks (Delta Lake Unity Catalog Photon MLflow) orchestration frameworks and streaming data patterns.
- Champion data governance security and compliance by driving alignment with InfoSec architecture and legal stakeholders.
- Manage budgets cloud costs vendor relationships and resourcing to support platform growth and evolution.
- Mentor and develop engineers and technical leaders building deep expertise in Databricks internals Spark optimization and modern data architectures.
- Define technical artifacts including architecture diagrams roadmaps and best practice guides to ensure clarity and alignment across teams.
- Promote a highstandard engineering culture and operational excellence within the organization.
Youll be expected to have:
- Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
- 15 years of software engineering experience with 8 years building and operating largescale data platforms.
- 5 years in engineering leadership roles including managing teams and leading crossfunctional initiatives.
- Expertlevel proficiency with Databricks including:
Delta Lake internals (ACID transactions time travel data compaction strategies)
Unity Catalog for data governance security and lineage
Advanced Spark optimization and cluster management - Strong expertise with cloudnative data engineering in Azure or AWS including storage (ADLS/S3) networking and IAM integration.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems big data technologies metadata catalogs orchestration frameworks and observability tooling.
- Proven experience driving data governance data modeling and ontology initiatives to support analytics and AI/ML workflows.
- Experience with streaming architectures (Apache Kafka structured streaming) schema evolution and eventdriven data modeling.
- Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers scale teams and manage budgets and vendor relationships.
- A continuous learner mindset actively keeping pace with evolving Databricks platform capabilities and broader data engineering trends.
Preferred but not required:
- Experience with Power BI Direct Lake mode and semantic modeling for lakehousebased analytics.
- Familiarity with Mosaic AI Databricks GenAI capabilities or Feature Store implementations.
- Contributions to opensource Spark Databricks community content or certifications (e.g. Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional).
At Flexera we foster a fun and engaged hybrid working environment where collaboration and innovation thrive. We value diversity and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups in technology to apply. Join our team to not only contribute to a worldclass global product but also to grow in your career. At Flexera we encourage continuous learning and provide opportunities for professional development.
Flexera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws policies and/or regulations.
Flexera understands the value that results from employing a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI(Diversity Equity and Inclusion)council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
