Director of Data Engineering
Director of Data Engineering
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Job Description
Overview
As a Director of Data Engineering youll help drive Concora Credits Mission to enable customers to Do More with Credit every single day.
The impact youll have at Concora Credit:
We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Director of Data Engineering to lead the design development and scaling of our enterprise data platform. This individual will be responsible for building and managing a high-performing engineering team setting the technical vision for our data architecture and enabling robust data infrastructure that powers analytics machine learning and AI across the company.
We seek an experienced professional with expertise in cloud-first technologies and modern data practices-someone with an owner/operator philosophy who is excited about delivering modern data-driven experiences inspiring your staff and colleagues to do new things and who is ever-curious and eager to learn. If youre a leader who gets things done values collaboration transparent communication and empowering the exceptional people who work alongside you wed love to have you join us!
This position is located at our Beaverton OR office and has a hybrid schedule. Were onsite Monday through Wednesday where you will lead a team of data engineers working in the office and across the country.
We hire people not positions. Thats because at Concora Credit we put people first including our customers partners and Team Members. Concora Credit is guided by a single purpose: to help non-prime customers do more with credit. Today we have helped millions of customers access credit. Our industry leadership resilience and willingness to adapt ensure we can help our partners responsibly say yes to millions more. As a company grounded in entrepreneurship were looking to expand our team and are looking for people who foster innovation strive to make an impact and want to Do More! Were an established company with over 20 years of experience but now were taking things to the next level. Were seeking someone who wants to impact the business and play a pivotal role in leading the charge for change.
Responsibilities
As our Director of Data Engineering you will:
Leadership & Strategy:
- Define and drive the vision strategy and roadmap for the companys data platform
- Collaborate with product analytics data science and business teams to understand data needs and ensure implementation of scalable reliable data services
Team Management:
- Lead mentor and scale a team of data engineers architects and data platform specialists
- Foster a high-performance culture with a focus on innovation quality and continuous improvement
Data Infrastructure and Platform Engineering:
- Own the data infrastructure (data lake data warehouse ETL/ELT pipelines orchestration tools observability)
- Design and implement scalable reliable and secure data pipelines and platforms (e.g. data lakes data warehouses real-time data streaming)
- Oversee the integration of structured and unstructured data from multiple sources ensuring data quality lineage and governance
- Ensure high availability performance and cost-efficiency of data systems
Compliance & Security:
- Work with security and compliance teams to define policies on access control and data privacy and implement controls for PCI
Innovation & Optimization:
- Stay informed about emerging technologies in data engineering and apply them where applicable
- Continuously evaluate and improve platform scalability performance and developer experience
These duties must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.
We know experience comes in many forms and that many skills are transferable. If your experience is close to what were looking for consider applying. Diversity has made us the entrepreneurial and innovative company that we are today.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- 10 years of experience in data engineering with at least 3-5 years in a leadership or management role
- Extensive experience in data leadership roles including responsibilities for team composition performance technology strategy execution and lifecycle management
- Expertise in development and delivery including modern data integrations and cloud-data platforms where quality scalability and 24x7x365 availability are key
- Solid collaboration skills a focus on building strong relationships and a desire to foster an environment of mutual support and success where delivery is an enterprise goal
- Experience mentoring and supporting teams to develop new muscles evolve their ways of thinking and adopt new standards in quality and development
- Deep understanding of the modern skills processes tools and methodologies required to rapidly develop deliver and iterate high-quality secure software and services
- Deep expertise in modern data architecture (e.g. data lakes lakehouses warehouses)
- Proven experience with technologies like Spark Airflow Kafka Databricks and cloud platforms (Azure AWS or GCP). Azure Databricks experience is strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of data modeling streaming & batch data pipelines and orchestration
- Strong project management and cross-functional communication skills
- Expertise in rapid delivery and automation through CI/CD pipelines and a team focus on measurable security performance and quality
- Budget vendor and technology lifecycle management experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a highly regulated or data-intensive industry (e.g. fintech SaaS)
- Knowledge of machine learning platforms and MLOps
Whats In It For You:
- Medical Dental and Vision insurance for you and your family
- Relax and recharge with Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 6 company-observed paid holidays plus 3 paid floating holidays
- 401k(after 90 days) plus employer match up to 4%
- Pet Insurance for your furry family members
- Wellness perks including onsite fitness equipment at both locations EAP and access to the Headspace App
- We invest in your future through Tuition Reimbursement
- Save on taxes with Flexible Spending Accounts
- Peace of mind with Life and AD&D Insurance
- Protect yourself with company-paid Long-Term Disability and voluntary Short-Term Disability
Concora Credit provides equal employment opportunities to all Team Members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Concora Credit is an equal opportunity employer (EEO).
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
