Director, Data Lake and Integration

🕒 October 23, 2025

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $208.8k - $306.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Credit Acceptance

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1972

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Finance • Fintech • Automotive

Credit Acceptance is a company that specializes in providing auto financing solutions to individuals, including those with bad credit history or no credit history at all. With over 50 years of experience, Credit Acceptance has helped more than 4 million consumers secure financing for vehicle purchases. The company operates a network of over 15,000 dealers and offers customers the ability to pre-qualify for auto financing, which does not impact their credit score. Furthermore, Credit Acceptance provides educational resources and tools, such as payment and auto price calculators, to assist customers in managing their finances and understanding their credit options. The company's mission is to drive possibility by offering financial solutions that give individuals the opportunity to improve their financial situation and secure reliable transportation.

📋 Description

• Provide technical and architectural leadership within the data engineering organization • Champion building out an enterprise data lake across the businesses • Formulate and implement data lake and integration strategy across the data space • Oversee the design and development of a scalable enterprise data lake that supports different use cases across the company • Lead the development and continuous evolution of scalable, robust, and business-aligned enterprise data lake and integration • Effectively communicate data lake success, strategies, roadmap, and progress to executive leadership and stakeholders • Develop insightful business and domain knowledge, translate data into actionable insights • Build a strong engineering organization and foster a solid engineering discipline • Collaborate with both the data team and cross engineering on technology and architecture strategy and decision • Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build, and maintain best-in-class software systems • Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience • Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience • Experience in the leadership role overseeing strategy and implementation of enterprise data lake and integration with demonstrated business success and impact • Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices with experience building an enterprise data lake with modern technology and architecture • Expert understanding and use of modern data technology end-to-end, including but not limited to source system, data integration, data acquisition, data ingestion, data transformation, data aggregation, data governance, business intelligence, data warehouse, data lake, NoSQL, object storage, streaming, etc. • Extensive experience with enterprise data modeling and integration with demonstrated success • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures • Demonstrated success in building a strong engineering organization and attract/recruit/grow/retain talent • Demonstrated success in building a mission-critical enterprise-class data solution that delivers business impact • Demonstrated ability to work with business partners, cross-functional team members, and coach and mentor experienced team members • In-depth experience with building an enterprise big data real-time production system that delivers business success • Experienced in communicating and articulating technology subjects in the context of business, and providing timely and clear communication • Well-versed in delivery mechanisms such as Agile

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent benefits package that includes 401(K) match • Adoption assistance • Parental leave • Tuition reimbursement • Comprehensive medical/dental/vision • Many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work