What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Data Engineering position at National Funding?
Director of Data Engineering - San Diego, CA
Hybrid 3 days/week, Full time M-F 8am-5pm PST
Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.
National Funding does not consider candidates requiring 1099 or C2C.
Exempt/Salary: $140,000-$180,000 Bonus
National Funding is continuing to grow its Data Engineering Department and has an exciting opportunity for a Director of Data Engineering. Responsible for designing, building, and scaling our data infrastructure to support the needs of our organization's data-driven initiatives. Works with product and engineering to design production application data. Responsible for ensuring data is easily accessible and usable for insights and analysis. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our data infrastructure while driving innovation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage a team of talented data engineers responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our data infrastructure platform.
• Develop and execute comprehensive data strategy aligned with business goals and objectives collaborating with technical leads and product managers on prioritization and roadmap plans.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies and best practices. Implement and maintain processes to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Conduct data discovery activities, performing root cause analysis and making recommendations for the remediation of data quality issues.
• Understand business and technical requirements, provision of subject matter expertise and implementation of data engineering techniques
• Establish and maintain performance monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting mechanisms to ensure the reliability and availability of our data infrastructure platform.
• Work cross-functionally to prioritize work items, track progress, and deliver commitments. Collaborate extensively with data science and analytics teams to design data platform(s) that support their needs and deliverables.
• Directly contribute to the entire development cycle, from conception and design through release, reporting and analytics.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
• Degree in computer science or related field
• 3 years of leadership/experience managing highly technical teams.
• Strong technical background in data engineering and architecture
• Demonstrated experience in project management and tools such as Jira
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Proven track record delivering high visibility projects on time and budget
Physical Demands:
• Working in a temperature-controlled office environment
• Sitting at a desk for long periods of time while viewing multiple computer screen monitors
• Potential lifting of boxes around 5-10lbs
Why National Funding?
- Growing, successful company preparing to almost double in size over the next three years (this is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor)
- Positive, energetic, passionate, business casual environment with management who committed to your success
- Fantastic benefits package including a 401(k) match
- Numerous employee events throughout the year, including our annual traditions such as a Day at the Del Mar Racetrack, Holiday Party, Employee and Family Picnic, sporting events and more.
National Funding serves the small business community. Since 1999, we have provided more than $3 billion in funding to over 50,000 customers to support their working capital and equipment financing needs. We are one of the country's largest private providers of small business loans, having funded more than $3 billion to help small businesses grow. Our personal approach helps strengthen small business owners and we pride ourselves on being a resource they can trust. We are believers in small business owners.
National Funding is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Salary : $140,000 - $180,000
