Director, Data Engineering - Military Veterans

As one of the nation’s premier humanitarian organizations, the American Red Cross is dedicated to helping people in need throughout the United States and, in association with other Red Cross networks, throughout the world. When you join our team, you have a direct impact on a meaningful mission, and you can help save lives every day. If you share our passion for helping people, join us in this excellent career opportunity. Work where your career is a force for good.

We are committed to the diversity of our workforce and to delivering our programs and services in a culturally competent manner reflecting the communities we serve.  Our work environment is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive with a focus on building allyship and a culture of belonging that empowers all team members. Come to learn, grow, and succeed while sharing your passion for making a difference.  

The Red Cross supports a variety of cultural and community resource groups for employees and volunteers. From the Ability Network, our Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Group, the Latino Resource Group, and Red Cross PRIDE, to the Umoja African American Resource Group, our Veterans+ Resource Group, and the Women’s Resource Group, these networks provide connections, mentoring and help give voice to important concerns and opinions. 

At the American Red Cross, your uniqueness can shine!  

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE JOB:

Join our Enterprise Data and Analytics team as a Director of Engineering, where you’ll help lead the modernization and transformation of our data and reporting capabilities across various verticals. This role is pivotal in implementing cutting-edge data architecture. As a Director of Engineering, you will lead and inspire a team of data engineers to build scalable data pipelines, enhancing data management, analytics, and reporting efficiency. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders and engineering teams to develop, maintain, and improve data solutions. Additionally, you will help drive software automation initiatives supporting CI/CD adoption and DevOps maturity, with a strong focus on automated testing practices. You will help develop best practices for the software development life cycle, change management, and production incident resolution as well as contribute to tools analysis and establishment of engineering best practices.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience as an engineering leader with a passion for data and data strategy. A strong background in data warehousing and the ability to guide teams in building scalable data solutions is essential.  Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with business stakeholders and engineering teams are also necessary.

The work location for this exciting opportunity is virtual. The selected candidate will work 100% remotely from home and can be located anywhere in the United States with a preference to work East Coast hours. 

WHERE YOUR CAREER IS A FORCE FOR GOOD (Key Responsibilities):

•    Lead a team in designing, developing, documenting, and maintaining scalable data pipelines to handle increasing data volume and complexity.

•    Act as an organizational expert on data engineering and data lake/warehousing best practices, researching and applying emerging trends to projects and operations.

•    Mentor and guide adoption of DevOps practices, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC), resulting in improved deployment speed and reliability. 

•    Oversee the development, maintenance, and enhancement of automated tests, test cases, and monitoring alerts to meet quality and performance standards.

•    Collaborate with analytics and business teams to improve data consumed by business intelligence tools, enhancing data accessibility and fostering data-driven decision making.

•    Provide leadership and guidance to team members through active participation in design reviews, ensuring deliverables meet industry standards for data privacy, security, and governance.

•    Coach team members through proof of concepts, feasibility studies, and time and cost estimates.

•    Strive to learn and understand new developments in Lean, Agile, and contemporary management practices. Create and foster formal and informal groups for learning and improvement.

•    Manage hiring, onboarding, training, coaching, and performance management, resource allocation and staff assignments.

Scope: people manager that interprets and administers policies, process, and procedures that may affect sections and subordinate units.

Qualified candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.  The American Red Cross does not sponsor employment visas.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (required/minimum qualifications):

•    Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

•    Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

•    Over 5 years of experience in leading and managing technical teams.

•    Proficiency with various database technologies and data warehouse schema design patterns, particularly snowflake and star schemas.

•    Experience with cloud-based services, especially AWS (e.g., Redshift, S3, RDS).

•    Proficient in SDLC, QA, test automation, and DevOps practices/tools (especially GitLab and Grafana).

•    Experienced in object-oriented programming, with a focus on Python.

•    Skilled in Behavior Driven Development, performance testing, and test data generation.

•    Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and integrity across the organization.

•    Proven experience in ensuring quality and reliability in data warehouse, data management, and BI reporting solutions.

•    Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies, especially SAFe.

•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

* Combination of candidate’s education and general experience satisfies requirements so long as the total years equate to description’s minimum education and general experience years combined (Management experience cannot be substituted).

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PAY INFORMATION: 

The starting annual salary range for this position is $165K - $175K. We do not offer an annual bonus for this role. Note that American Red Cross salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. Other factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, how many years of experience you have and comparison to other employees already in this role. We will review specific salary information at the time of phone screening based upon your location & experience.This job will be posted for a minimum of five business days and extended if the applicant pool needs to be expanded.BENEFITS FOR YOU:

We take care of you, while you take care of others. As a mission-based organization, we believe our team needs great support to do great work. Our comprehensive benefits help you in balancing home and work, retirement, getting healthy and more. With our resources and perks, you have amazing possibilities at the American Red Cross to advance and learn. 

•    Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans 

•    Health Spending Accounts & Flexible Spending Accounts

•    PTO + Holidays 

•    401K with up to 5% Match 

•    Paid Family Leave

•    Employee Assistance Programs 

•    Disability and Insurance: Short + Long Term 

•    Service Awards and Recognition

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