Cloud Data Platform Transformation Leader

Job Title: Cloud Data Platform Director

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Data Platform Director to lead our company's multi-year Google Cloud transformation strategy for data platforms. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building a modern, scalable, secure, and high-availability data warehouse in Google Cloud to enable customer-centric views of data and support enterprise AI strategy and roadmap.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned leader to mentor and manage a delivery team of 60 in-house employees, including senior engineering managers, principal engineers, data scientists, and extended purchased services vendor partners teams.

• The selected individual will be accountable for supporting the creation of a modern data warehouse platform in Google Cloud that enables analytics insights, AI/ML at speed.
• Key responsibilities will include managing stakeholders and projects, collaborating on prioritization strategies, roadmaps, architecture, features, and delivery.
• The successful candidate will also be leading the enablement of new GCP BQ capabilities, engineering patterns for enterprise-wide adoption, ensuring banking regulatory compliance, reporting, and providing technical leadership in design, delivery of Google Cloud data platform using agile practices and delivering continuous business value.
• Additionally, they will drive business adoption of new scalable and reliable data platform for enterprise data analytics, insights, AI/ML modeling requirements, collaborating with architects and cross-functional application product teams and Ford Data Factory team to integrate data solutions required to support multiple parallel projects.

To excel in this role, the candidate should possess:

• A minimum of 12 years of technical leadership experience in delivery of Data Warehouse Solutions on-prem or on-cloud for large companies and business adoption of these platforms to build insights, analytics.
• 15+ years of experience leading technical teams, delivery complex projects using Agile methodologies, and product support of those solutions.
• 10+ years of managing global supplier cost-effective sourcing partners.
• Solid knowledge of cloud data architecture, data modeling principles, DevOps, data compliance, global (North America/Europe) data protection laws, security, and data governance.
• Very strong leadership and communication skills, exhibiting the right negotiating posture with customers and program teams to make the right decisions.
• Demonstrated experience required in engineering data warehouse solutions in Google or other cloud systems.
• Driven and managing complex projects with aggressive timelines.
• Google Cloud certified professional Data Engineer.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• Experience on Google Cloud with a deep understanding and design and development experience with Google Cloud Platform products on Infrastructure, Data Management, Application Development, Smart Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Security, and DevOps.
• Knowledge of most of the following: Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL), Big Data Tools, BigQuery, Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Google Data Studio, Google Cloud Storage, Data Quality and Governance, designing, building, and deploying ML pipelines (MLOps) to solve business challenges using Python, BQML, Vertex AI on GCP, working closely with data scientists to help deploy their models.
• Proven track record of managing large global budgets and organization change management.
• Ability to negotiate with and influence stakeholders, drive forward strategic data transformation.
• Quick learner, self-starter, energetic leader with a drive to deliver results, empathy and care for customers and teams as a leader guide teams on advancement of skills, objective setting, and performance assessments.

The selected individual will have the opportunity to work with a talented team, driving innovation and growth in the industry. They will also enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package, including opportunities for career advancement and professional development.

We offer a collaborative and dynamic work environment, where employees can share ideas, learn from each other, and grow professionally. Our company values diversity, inclusion, and respect for all employees, and we strive to create a workplace that is welcoming and inclusive for everyone.