Job Description:
Director of Data Engineering
The Opportunity
Pluralsight empowers employees all across the globe to level up their cloud & tech skillset. Our data teams build and maintain the infrastructure essential to delivering curated, scalable, business-critical data to the organization, enabling informed and data-driven decisions.
The Director of Data Engineering is a technical leader who will drive the strategic direction, evolution and operation of Pluralsight & A Cloud Guru's data platform. You will lead data engineering teams to develop the strategy for integration and unification of product, customer, and content data across the enterprise. This role will partner with business and technical leaders to deliver data solutions for analytics, data science, and reporting needs and strengthen our technical culture which emphasizes ownership and responsibility while acting as a trusted advisor to non-technical colleagues. You will be focused on leading the vision for data engineering teams at Pluralsight and iterating on the next generation of data platforms.
What you'll own:

• Set the vision and establish a new strategy for data engineering teams to provide Data Warehousing and processing solutions to data science and analytics teams
• Direct the management of the architecture of the holistic data platform inclusive of Snowflake and associated processing/tooling
• Manage and lead the technical evolution of our data platform while focusing on business and customer outcomes
• Build and promote a culture of learning, knowledge sharing and experimentation and contribute to creating a great team culture by modeling a collaborative approach
• Provide guidance and management to data engineering teams dedicated to curation and data processing
• Oversee the integration of data from multiple sources across Pluralsight companies; Prioritize high-value datasets and develop strategy for integration
• Lead data quality efforts and work with business partners to orchestrate data management and cataloging efforts
• Manage data governance across the platform to drive operational excellence, compliance and regulations, and exceptional customer experiences
• Partner with internal customers to develop roadmap for tool and solution delivery, develop relationships, and understand the needs of the business

Who you are:

• You have 10+ years of experience designing and delivering data warehouses, marts, and data for reporting to support business analytics
• You are an expert at all things data and SQL. Experience with Snowflake is a must-have!
• A proven leader of cross-functional teams guiding them to meet project goals while balancing the needs of many partners
• An effective communicator with technical team members as well as business partners with the ability to distill complex ideas into straightforward language to present roadmaps at an executive level

Technologies our Data Engineering teams work with:
AWS - EC2, Sagemaker, S3, Lambda, Glue
Databases - Snowflake, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redshift
ETL - Fivetran, dbt cloud
Streaming - Kafka, DynamoDB streams
Experience you'll need:

• Experience managing multiple teams and providing vision, strategy, and guidance to direct reports to meet the prioritized needs of internal customers.
• Experience with cloud services and the capabilities that exist (AWS services, Kubernetes, Terraform etc.) as well as experience with processing and ETL frameworks (dbt, Fivetran. etc.)
• Familiarity with governance/compliance frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Strong capability to manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume data from a variety of sources
• Thorough understanding of cloud services, data processing, and data warehousing tools in order to provide guidance on industry standard practices and best tools for each use-case
• Experience architecting and building an enterprise data warehouse with in-depth knowledge of dimensional modeling.
• Experience with leading data management and cataloging programs

Working at Pluralsight
Founded in 2004 and trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Pluralsight is the technology skills platform organizations and individuals in 150+ countries count on to create progress for the world.
Our platform helps technologists master their craft and take control of their careers. We empower businesses everywhere to build adaptable teams, speed up release cycles and become scalable, reliable and secure. We come to work every day knowing we're helping our customers build the skills that power innovation.
And we don't let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission. Our mission to democratize technology skills is what drives us and our values are at the helm of how we work together. It's our commitment to practicing them day in, day out that enables our performance. We're adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, transparency to eliminate office politics and trust each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission, we are one.
Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.