About the Role
IAA is seeking a Director of Data Engineering & Data Science Engineering to lead a highly visible, business-critical function at the intersection of data, analytics, machine learning, and business transformation. This leader will define and drive the vision, architecture, and execution for IAA’s data engineering and data science capabilities, ensuring the organization can scale advanced analytics, BI, forecasting, machine learning, and AI solutions that directly support business growth and operational excellence.
This role requires a strong technical leader and business problem solver who can partner across a broad set of stakeholders including Operations, Business, Sales, Marketing, Product, and Engineering. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in the Azure BI and data ecosystem, strong people leadership, and the ability to translate complex business needs into practical, scalable data and AI solutions.
This position reports directly to the VP of Engineering and is a critical, high-visibility leadership role within the organization.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the Data Engineering and Data Science Engineering function for IAA, setting technical vision, delivery strategy, and operating rhythm
- Build and evolve scalable data platforms, BI architecture, and ML-enablement capabilities using the Azure data and analytics stack
- Drive strategy and execution across Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Power BI, Azure BI technologies, and modern cloud data platforms
- Partner with business and functional leaders to solve high-value problems across Operations, Sales, Marketing, Product, and other key areas
- Guide the design and implementation of robust pipelines, semantic models, dashboards, self-service analytics, forecasting solutions, and machine learning systems
- Help shape the roadmap for advanced analytics, predictive modeling, experimentation, and AI-driven insights
- Mentor, coach, and grow data engineering and data science talent while raising the technical bar across the team
- Establish strong engineering practices across architecture, delivery quality, scalability, governance, and operational excellence
- Collaborate closely with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure data and AI solutions are aligned with platform, product, and business priorities
- Act as a senior thought partner to leadership on data strategy, technical tradeoffs, and investment priorities
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience leading Data Engineering, BI, Analytics, and/or Data Science Engineering teams at the Director level or equivalent
- Deep expertise in the Azure BI / data technology stack, including:
- Microsoft Fabric
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Power BI
- Broader Azure data and analytics services
- Strong understanding of data engineering architecture, modern analytics platforms, and scalable data pipelines
- Strong foundation in data science, machine learning, and model operationalization
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex business problems through data, analytics, and technical leadership
- Strong mentoring, coaching, and people leadership skills with experience growing high-performing technical teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to work effectively with a wide range of technical and non-technical partners such as Ops, Business, Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering
- Ability to operate successfully in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment with multiple priorities and stakeholders
- Strong executive presence and the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting enterprise use cases across operations, commercial functions, and product-driven organizations
- Experience driving both BI modernization and data science / ML adoption within the same organization
- Familiarity with cloud-native engineering practices, production-grade data platforms, and secure, scalable AI/ML environments
- Experience leading organizations that combine data engineering, analytics engineering, BI, and data scienceunder one leadership model
IAA Data Science / Engineering Technology Environment
We are looking for a leader who can guide and expand a modern data and AI ecosystem. Relevant technologies include Azure BI capabilities as well as IAA’s broader data science and ML toolset, including technologies such as Python, SQL, Azure Event Hub, Apache Airflow, Synapse, Fabric, Docker, Terraform, DBT, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Vertex AI, Gemini, GPT, Prophet, TBATS, SARIMAX, scikit-learn, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure cloud platform.
Why This Role Matters
This is a critical leadership role for IAA. The Director will help shape how the company uses data, analytics, BI, and AI to make better decisions, improve business performance, unlock operational efficiencies, and create scalable competitive advantage. This leader will influence both technical direction and business outcomes across the organization.
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading Data Engineering, BI, Analytics, or Data Science Engineering teams at Director level or equivalent
- Deep expertise in Azure BI / data technology stack (Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI)
- Strong understanding of data engineering architecture, modern analytics platforms, and scalable data pipelines
- Strong foundation in data science, machine learning, and model operationalization
- Strong mentoring, coaching, and people leadership skills with experience growing high-performing technical teams
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical partners
- Experience supporting enterprise use cases across operations, commercial functions, and product-driven organizations
- Experience driving BI modernization and data science/ML adoption within the same organization
- Familiarity with cloud-native engineering practices, production-grade data platforms, and secure, scalable AI/ML environments
- Experience leading combined organizations of data engineering, analytics engineering, BI, and data science
- Familiarity with supporting technologies (Python, SQL, Airflow, Event Hub, Docker, Terraform, DBT, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Vertex AI, generative models, forecasting libraries, CI/CD)
RB Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RB Global and has not been reviewed or approved by RB Global.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer matching are highlighted in multiple postings, supporting long‑term savings for U.S. employees. Plan details are positioned as a core component of the total package and are frequently called out alongside other key benefits.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan is emphasized, including accessible design features such as cashless participation and look‑back/discount mechanics. Participation is portrayed as broad and a meaningful part of total rewards across regions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and company holidays are consistently described as part of the standard offering. Time away benefits are frequently praised as a strength that enhances overall compensation value.
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What We Do
RB Global, Inc. (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) is a leading, omnichannel marketplace and trusted provider of value-added insights, services and transaction solutions for buyers and sellers of commercial assets and vehicles worldwide. Through its global network of auction sites and digital platform, RB Global serves customers worldwide across a variety of asset classes, including automotive, construction, commercial transportation, government surplus, lifting and material handling, energy, mining and agriculture. The company’s end-to-end marketplace solutions include Ritchie Bros., IAA, Rouse Services, SmartEquip and VeriTread. For more information about RB Global, visit rbglobal.com.
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