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Senior Director, Data Platform – Engineering

Data EngineerData EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

1 day ago

Salary

$231K - $363K / year

Seniority

Senior

Postgraduate Degree10 yrs expEnglishAirflowAWSCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

Job Description

Senior Director, Data Platform – Engineering

ZoomInfo

• Lead and develop two Director-level managers and their respective teams spanning data platform engineering, data pipeline development, and practitioner enablement. • Set the multi-quarter roadmap for the Enterprise Data Platform and Engineering organizations, balancing infrastructure modernization, operational stability, security, and enablement priorities. • Build a high-performance engineering culture grounded in ownership, accountability, and operational excellence. • Drive headcount planning, organizational design, and career development frameworks that attract and retain top talent across a distributed team. • Serve as a trusted partner to the VP of Engineering & Innovation, contributing to broader engineering strategy and organizational decisions. • Establish clear prioritization frameworks to manage competing demands from security, infrastructure modernization, platform stability, and practitioner tooling. • Own the strategic direction for ZoomInfo's core data infrastructure, including Snowflake, Airflow, Fivetran, AWS, and GCP. • Guide the design and buildout of an Iceberg-based GCS Data Lake as the foundation for scalable, cost-efficient storage, including governance, observability, and ingestion patterns. • Oversee cloud infrastructure consolidation to GCP, including Airflow 3.x upgrades, service migrations, and deprecation of legacy environments. • Drive SaaS vendor strategy and cost optimization — evaluating build-vs-buy decisions for ingestion (Fivetran/Airbyte), cost management, and other platform tooling. • Oversee monorepo consolidation and CI/CD standardization to enable consistent governance and accelerate deployment velocity. • Ensure the platform team maintains a strong security posture including service account modernization, key rotation, legacy role decommissioning, access reviews, and incident response readiness. • Oversee the development, reliability, and monitoring of all enterprise data pipelines powering analytics, reporting, and operational workflows. • Guide the evolution of data modeling practices through dbt and semantic models, ensuring data products are trusted, documented, and well-tested. • Champion the shift-left initiative, enabling product and engineering domain teams to own their data assets end-to-end while maintaining quality and standards. • Support the development of AI-assisted tooling (agents and micro apps) that automate data engineering workflows — from ingestion and modeling to deployment and monitoring. • Drive platform-wide data standards alignment for metadata, ownership, testing, and documentation.

Job Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data platform, analytics, or related technical leadership roles, with at least 4 years at the Director level or above.
  • Experience leading and scaling data organizations of 15+ people, with a track record of building high-performing teams and developing talent.
  • Strong working knowledge of modern data stack technologies including Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP).
  • Experience driving platform modernization initiatives — whether cloud migrations, tool consolidation, vendor transitions, or infrastructure redesigns.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage through managers — setting direction, aligning priorities, and holding leaders accountable for outcomes without micromanaging execution.
  • Proven cross-functional partnership skills with business stakeholders (Marketing, Finance, Sales, Product, HR).
  • Experience building self-service analytics capabilities and enablement programs that reduce dependency on central engineering teams.
  • Strong vendor management experience including contract negotiations, build-vs-buy evaluations, and SaaS cost optimization.
  • Excellent communication skills — able to present strategy, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership in both written and verbal formats.
  • Experience operating in fast-paced, high-growth, or transformation environments where priorities shift and adaptability is essential.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being

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