Director Data & Analytics Platform

About the Role 

We are seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Director to lead our Enterprise Data Platform and Consumer Analytics Platform Teams. The candidate will demonstrate leadership across multiple domains drive architectural scale and deliver measurable business impact through data platform capabilities. 

This role is responsible for enabling domain-aligned data product development modernizing legacy analytics pipelines and delivering scalable trusted data infrastructure across the organization.  Initially the candidate will execute these responsibilities through an effort focused on the modernization of legacy analytics pipelines and oversee two customer-facing analytics applications (Helo and EXP.O NOW Analytics) which are converging into a unified premium analytics experience for our customers. The candidate will lead a high-performing team of data engineers architects and platform specialists and collaborate closely with business-aligned domain teams analytics leaders and regional technology groups. 

About Our Data Strategy & Organization 

We are evolving our global data organization to align data domain ownership modeling and product development with the business and application teams closest to the work. This means our Transportation Customs and other domain-aligned teams are empowered to own and deliver high-quality trusted data products. Our analytics and regional technology teams steward gold-level data models and reporting assets ensuring consistency and business value across geographies. 

The Enterprise Data Platform team plays a pivotal role in enabling this federated model. We provide the blueprint patterns frameworks and governance for data ingestion transformation and quality. We manage the catalog systems that support our bronze silver and gold data layers.  

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead the strategy design and delivery of our enterprise data platform ensuring it meets the needs of domain teams analytics users and customer-facing applications. 

• Define and evolve blueprint patterns for data ingestion transformation quality monitoring and metadata management across bronze silver and gold data layers. 

• Own and operate our data catalog and metadata systems enabling discoverability governance and trust in our data products. 

• Partner with domain and analytics teams to support their delivery of high-quality validated data products and reporting assets. 

• Lead the modernization of legacy analytics pipelines transitioning to scalable cloud-native real-time data frameworks. 

• Oversee the evolution of two customer-facing analytics applications (Helo and EXP.O NOW Analytics) ensuring alignment with enterprise data strategy and platform capabilities. 

• Build and lead a high-performing team of data engineers architects and platform specialists; foster a culture of innovation accountability and continuous improvement. 

• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align data platform investments with business priorities and measurable outcomes. 

Expectations 

Some high-level expectations of the role include: 

• Driving architectural scale and platform strategy across multiple domains and geographies. 

• Delivering measurable business impact through platform capabilities and data product enablement. 

• Leading and mentoring senior managers and technical leaders; building a strong succession pipeline. 

• Managing multi-departmental budgets and aligning resource allocation with strategic priorities. 

• Championing a culture of accountability innovation and sustainable delivery across the data platform organization. 

• Representing the data platform function in cross-functional forums and executive-level planning. 

This position is on-site and will reside in the greater Seattle WA. area at one of the following locations depending on availability. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.

• Downtown Seattle
• Federal Way
• Lynnwood
• Bellevue (Factoria)

Qualifications :

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 10 years of experience in data engineering data platform leadership or enterprise architecture roles with at least 5 years in a senior leadership capacity. 
• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise-scale data platforms preferably in a federated or domain-oriented data organization. 
• Deep expertise in modern data architectures (e.g. data mesh lakehouse medallion architecture) and technologies (e.g. Databricks Azure Snowflake CDC dbt). 
• Strong understanding of data governance metadata management and data quality frameworks and a strong partnership ethic to stay aligned to teams directly responsible. 
• Experience modernizing legacy data pipelines and transitioning to real-time cloud-native data platforms. 
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and delivering data capabilities that drive measurable business impact. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence across technical and business audiences. 

Additional Information :

Expected base salary:  $100000 

Eligible for bonus

Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:

• Paid vacation
• Holidays (10)
• Flexible Days (2)
• Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Medical Prescription Drug Dental & Vision Coverage
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
• Commuter Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Training and Personnel Development Program
• Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
• Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time