Director of Software Engineering

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

13

The Role: Director, Software Engineering

The Team:This role partners with global platform, architecture, governance, security, data mastering, and Databricks-aligned teams to ensure offshore delivery aligns with enterprise standards. The team collaborates with partner teams, offshore teams, and upstream/downstream stakeholders to drive data platform initiatives and foster engineering excellence.

Responsibilities and Impact:

• Drive Data Pipeline Transition and Platform Delivery: Partner with the core Databricks team to plan and execute the transition of existing data pipelines to the target enterprise data platform, implementing repeatable engineering patterns for ingestion, transformation, testing, deployment, and monitoring across onboarded datasets. • Champion AI-Assisted Engineering: Lead the adoption of AI-powered development tools like Claude, GitHub CoPilot, and LLMs to increase engineering velocity, code quality, and operational effectiveness, while developing context engineering practices and reusable context packs. • Provide Technical Direction for Data Onboarding: Guide offshore teams in defining and operationalizing asset-agnostic onboarding patterns for a broad range of data assets, domains, and source systems, establishing reusable ingestion and processing patterns across batch and streaming use cases. • Support Data Mastering Platform Integration: Integrate platform pipelines and datasets with the…