Senior Director, Data Platform – Engineering

🕒 May 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $231k - $363k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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ZoomInfo

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 Private Equity Round on 2014-04

B2B • SaaS • Enterprise

ZoomInfo is a leading provider of go-to-market intelligence solutions for sales and marketing professionals. The platform offers comprehensive data insights and analytics to help businesses identify target audiences, manage customer relationships, and drive revenue growth. By leveraging advanced technologies and extensive databases, ZoomInfo enables organizations to optimize their sales strategies and enhance operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 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