Associate Director, Data Engineering Lead

Description

This role is onsite. As Associate Director, Data Engineering, you will set the engineering standards, controls and capabilities that shape how enterprise data is built, governed and delivered across the company.

The work spans data platforms, governance and DataOps, with the aim of making data trustworthy, ready for AI and dependable for decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set and enforce enterprise standards for data engineering, pipeline reliability and production controls.
• Design and oversee governed, scalable pipelines for key business and data domains.
• Run the full data contract lifecycle: review, approval, governance and enforcement.
• Build data observability across monitoring, anomaly detection, service levels and operational alerts.
• Put controls in place so critical data elements stay traceable, validated and protected.
• Build safeguards that stop incomplete, inaccurate or non-compliant data from reaching downstream systems.
• Work with data modeling teams so engineering matches approved enterprise data models.
• Coordinate with governance, privacy, architecture and platform teams to deliver data in a compliant way.
• Automate deployment, validation, metadata capture, lineage, testing and reporting.
• Monitor operational performance and lead fixes for pipeline, contract and data reliability issues.

Requirements

• Essential: a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data engineering, data management, engineering, analytics or a related field.
• Essential: 5+ years in data engineering, data governance, data architecture, data product management or enterprise data platform delivery.
• Essential: hands-on work designing, building or governing enterprise pipelines, data products, data platforms or data integration.
• Essential: direct experience with data contracts, schema validation, pipeline monitoring, data observability or data product certification.
• Essential: experience in complex enterprise settings with many data producers, consumers, vendors, platforms and governance stakeholders.
• Desirable: an advanced degree or a relevant cloud, data engineering, data management or architecture certification.
• Desirable: experience in regulated, privacy-sensitive or compliance-driven data environments.
• Also listed: cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, customer insights, data analytics, digital marketing, market research, media campaigns, product marketing, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder management, team leadership and the waterfall model.

Conditions

The preferred location is the East Hanover, New Jersey site, though remote work may be possible depending on legal entity restrictions.

Relocation support is not available for this role, so apply only if the location is accessible to you.

Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.

If you work remotely, you pay for your home office expenses and for any travel or lodging to the East Hanover, New Jersey site for periodic live meetings.

The hiring manager sets working hours and domestic or international travel.

The base salary range is $152,600 to $283,400 per year. The final offer depends on skills and experience and will be reviewed periodically. The company may change the range based on company and market factors.

Benefits

• A performance-based cash incentive.
• Depending on level, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards.
• For eligible US-based employees: health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and other benefits.
• Generous time off, including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.