Senior Director- Data Engineering

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Job Title

About your role:

You will be responsible for the strategy development and delivery of data products built on large-scale datasets. You will lead talented data engineering and development teams to create cutting-edge data solutions that address complex business challenges and deliver trusted high-quality data to our clients. Your role will involve strategic planning data product ownership and ensuring the successful delivery of scalable reliable data products.

What youll do:

• Define and execute the strategy and roadmap for data products built on large-scale datasets to support Fiservs business goals.
• Lead and manage teams of data engineers and developers providing direction and guidance to ensure successful delivery of data products.
• Oversee the design development and implementation of scalable data pipelines data platforms and data products that align with Fiservs strategic goals.
• Lead the delivery of AI-ready data products and platform capabilities that support machine learning and generative AI use cases including feature engineering vector search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Partner with product business and cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into data product specifications and technical solutions.
• Ensure data quality reliability security and governance across data products including meeting SLAs for client data deliveries.
• Monitor project progress identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure timely and on-budget delivery.
• Drive performance scalability and cost optimization of large-scale data processing along with engineering best practices automation (including AI-assisted development) and release quality controls.

Experience youll need to have:

• 10 years of experience in data engineering big data or software development including building data products on large-scale datasets.
• 4 years of experience leading data engineering or data product teams.
• 4 years of experience in Python Java or similar programming languages.
• 4 years of hands-on experience with Apache Spark for large-scale distributed data processing.
• 4 years of experience with SQL and data modeling for large complex datasets; cloud data platforms and services on AWS Azure or GCP.
• 4 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines DevOps/DataOps practices and Agile methodologies.
• Bachelors degree in data science Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or an equivalent combination of education work and/or military experience.

Experience that would be great to have:

• Experience defining and managing data products as part of a product management or data mesh approach.
• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience with Databricks including Delta Lake Unity Catalog and Lakehouse architecture.
• Experience enabling AI/ML and generative AI solutions on Databricks or similar platforms such as feature stores vector databases or RAG pipelines

How youll work:

• This role is on-site Monday through Friday. Fiserv considers in-person collaboration to be an essential part of this role as in-person office experiences help you with your overall onboarding experience and leads to stronger productivity.

Travel:

• Approximately 10% travel off-site or to other office locations is expected.

Sponsorship:

You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including but not limited to F-1 (OPT CPT STEM) H-1B H-2 or TN or any candidate requiring sponsorship now or in the future will not be considered.

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Salary Range

These pay ranges apply to employees in New Jersey and New York. Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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