Director, Data Engineering – Business Applications
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Director, Data Engineering responsible for enterprise data engineering and business applications at PEAK6. Collaborating with leaders to align data infrastructure with strategic objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Define and execute the strategic roadmap for FOCUS’s enterprise data engineering platform, including data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data lakes, data warehouses, and integration frameworks
- Establish architectural standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and access that support analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases
- Partner with business and technology leaders to prioritize data platform investments and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy and regulatory requirements
- Provide executive-level reporting on platform health, data quality, and delivery outcomes
- Own the lifecycle management of FOCUS’s business application portfolio, including policy administration, agency management, billing, claims, and document management systems
- Oversee vendor relationships, licensing, contract renewals, and SLA performance for all business applications
- Lead application rationalization, modernization, and integration efforts to improve operational efficiency and reduce technical debt
- Partner with business stakeholders to evaluate new application capabilities and drive adoption of technology solutions that improve productivity and support FOCUS’s growth strategy
- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of data engineers, integration developers, and business application specialists
- Drive talent strategy, succession planning, performance management, and professional development across the function
- Establish engineering standards, development practices, and operational KPIs for the team
- Directly manages Data Engineering team leads/managers and Business Applications managers, and may directly manage senior individual contributors (e.g., Principal Data Engineers, Senior Application Analysts)
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field required
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration (MBA) strongly preferred
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or enterprise application management, with at least 4 years in a senior leadership role managing technical teams
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms using modern cloud technologies (e.g., Azure, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) within the insurance, financial services, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred
- Proven track record of managing enterprise business application portfolios (e.g., policy administration, agency management, billing, or claims systems) and leading application modernization or migration initiatives
- Experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams, including hiring and growing senior individual contributors and team leads
- Experience engaging with and presenting to executive and C-suite stakeholders on technology strategy, platform investments, and delivery outcomes.
Benefits:
- healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
- competitive PTO
- 401k match
- parental leave
- HSA contribution match
- paid subscription to the Calm app
- generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
- ability to work remotely up to two days a week
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