Director of Data Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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OnTrac

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1986

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

Logistics • eCommerce • Transport

OnTrac is a regional alternative parcel carrier and logistics provider focused on e-commerce and residential delivery. It operates a coast-to-coast network (promoting itself as the largest alternative carrier network), offering ground services, an economy “Ground Essentials” product, and a new Express 2–3 day coast-to-coast service launching in 2026. OnTrac also provides custom logistics and business-to-business critical deliveries (including healthcare/pharma and specialized aircraft-on-ground repair services), partners with e-commerce platforms and retailers, and runs programs for independent drivers and regional service providers. The company emphasizes faster, lower-cost alternatives to legacy carriers and 7-day/week delivery programs to improve conversion and repeat purchases for merchants.

📋 Description

• Lead the overall data engineering function and set strategic priorities aligned with organizational goals • Establish long-term operating strategies for enterprise data platforms, pipelines, tooling, governance, and migration to scalable data solutions • Oversee the design, development, performance, reliability, and uptime of ETL/ELT pipelines • Lead development of governed, documented, and AI-ready data assets for analytics, certified reporting, self-service BI, and business decisions • Partner with IT, business leaders, BI teams, analysts, and data stewards to define requirements, align metric definitions, and strengthen governance • Establish and enforce engineering standards, documentation practices, quality controls, and data lifecycle processes • Manage departmental budgets, staffing plans, priorities, and resource allocation • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing data engineering team, including hiring, coaching, performance management, corrective action, and talent development • Communicate technical and data concepts to senior leaders, business stakeholders, and technical teams • Translate business requirements and segment strategy into governed data products and functional plans

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience, including management experience • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent • Deep knowledge of data engineering practices, including ETL/ELT pipelines, extraction layers, data cleansing, enrichment, performance optimization, and platform scalability • Strong understanding of modern data architecture, including landing zones, cloud-based data platforms, analytics layers, reporting layers, data warehouses, data lakes, and AI-ready data assets • Demonstrated ability to partner with IT, Operations, Commercial, Finance, corporate teams, BI engineers, analysts, and data stewards • Familiarity with GCP/BigQuery, OneLook, Power BI, FasTrac, OTM, Oracle, Salesforce, Dayforce, EPC, INVDB, YMS, SLOF, and SLEF • Proficiency in SQL and Python • Familiarity with Git-based development, CI/CD, documentation standards, dbt or similar transformation frameworks, Databricks or equivalent data processing platforms, and governed data lifecycle management • Ability to travel up to 25%

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Life and short- and long-term disability coverage • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match • Flex vacation in states other than CA, CO, IL, MA, MT, and NE, with accruals up to 96 hours for first year of employment with tenure-based increases up to 160 hours • Two (2) floating holidays per year • Paid sick leave • Six (6) paid company holidays • Two (2) weeks paid pregnancy disability leave • Four (4) weeks paid parental bonding leave • Additional wellness and employee assistance programs • Up to a 25% Bonus Target incentive compensation may be available