The Role
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of a Sr. Director, Data and Analytics Engineering at Coupa:
We are seeking a high-impact Senior Director of Data & Analytics Engineering to architect and scale our enterprise data capabilities. As a key leadership figure, you’ll possess over 12 years of experience, with a proven track record of building high-performing, multi-tiered teams and driving data strategy at scale. You are an expert at bridging the gap between complex technical infrastructure and executive-level business outcomes, ensuring our data ecosystem is scalable and performant. While technical and fluent in modern stack orchestration, your primary impact will be in institutionalizing engineering excellence, mentoring the next generation of leaders, and serving as a strategic partner to the business in a high-growth, multi-project environment.
What You'll Do:
- Strategic Leadership & Delivery
- Architect the Vision: Define and execute the long-term roadmap for analytics engineering, data architecture, and BI, ensuring our data stack scales with the business.
- Drive Value: Translate complex business objectives into high-impact data models and self-service BI solutions that empower executive decision-making.
- Data Modeling & Architectural Excellence
- Set the Gold Standard: Own the evolution of our SQL-based data modeling and warehouse optimization strategies to ensure peak performance and reliability.
- Scale with dbt: Lead the strategic adoption of dbt, championing modular design, rigorous testing, and comprehensive documentation across all data domains.
- Build Trusted Assets: Oversee the lifecycle of data transformations to ensure every asset is governed, reusable, and serves as a "single source of truth."
- Operational Excellence: Institutionalize elite engineering standards for code reviews, CI/CD, monitoring, and proactive incident management.
- Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Strategic Liaison: Act as the primary point of accountability for BI outcomes, working alongside C-suite and VP-level stakeholders to prioritize high-value initiatives.
- Evangelize Data: Foster a data-driven culture by ensuring data assets are discoverable, well-documented, and championed across the organization.
- Transparency: Communicate technical roadmaps, risks, and trade-offs to non-technical audiences with clarity and executive presence.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 12+ Years of Experience: Proven track record in Data/Analytics Engineering, with at least 5 years in a significant leadership role managing managers.
- Modern Stack Expertise: Expert-level command of SQL, dbt, and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks).
- BI Power User: Deep experience scaling enterprise-grade Tableau environments and fostering "governed self-service" cultures.
- Change Agent: You don’t just manage teams; you build them. You have experience recruiting, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineering talent.
- Business Acumen: The ability to link technical architecture directly to P&L impact and operational efficiency.
- Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).
The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 - 234,000
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state.
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The Company
What We Do
Coupa is a global technology company that helps businesses run smarter by connecting all the ways they spend money — from procurement and expenses to payments and supply chain decisions — in one intelligent platform. In simple terms, Coupa gives organizations the visibility and control they need to make better financial choices, reduce waste, and drive real impact. It’s where technology meets purpose: helping companies manage their resources more responsibly while creating a positive ripple across their people, partners, and the planet.
Why Work With Us
At Coupa, we prioritize an inclusive and empathetic workplace where every voice is valued. Our teams are proactive and accountable, ensuring we collaborate effectively to achieve our goals. The foundation of our culture rests on our people; we believe in fostering an environment that encourages innovation and curiosity.
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