Director of Data

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179376 - 279262 USD per year

AustraliaAustriaBangladeshBelgiumBrazilCanadaColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaCzech RepublicDenmarkEgyptEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceIndiaIndonesiaIrelandIsraelItalyKenyaMexicoNetherlandsNigeriaPeruPolandSingaporeSouth AfricaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUgandaUnited KingdomUnited States of AmericaUruguayFull-TimeData

Company:Wikimedia Foundation

Location:Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, UTC-8, UTC+3

Languages:English

Seniority level:Director, 8+ years

Experience:8+ years

Skills:

Backend DevelopmentLeadershipProject ManagementPythonSQLCloud ComputingETLHadoopKafkaKubernetesMachine LearningPeople ManagementSoftware ArchitectureCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentAirflowData engineeringData scienceSparkCI/CDDevOpsMicroservicesMentoringData modelingA/B testingData analyticsData management

Requirements:

8+ years of engineering leadership with 3+ years managing managers across data-heavy backend teams. Track record of shipping production data systems at massive scale. Hands-on experience with relevant open source tech stacks (e.g. Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Ceph, Airflow). Ability to hire, coach, and lead globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities:

Ship safely and incrementally across data engineering, search, experimentation, and data SRE. Develop people and teams, managing managers and coaching senior ICs. Provide technical strategy and oversight for data platforms and systems. Partner effectively with Product Management. Be an operational multiplier by identifying and sharing patterns that reduce toil.