Associate Director Data Engineering

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

The leader will oversee and drive data projects to meet the needs of Growth, CX, Service, and Corporate business teams, ensuring efficient onboarding across data and AI platforms .The role aligns business requirements with scalable technical solutions, empowering teams to make data-driven decisions and optimizing organizational resources. In this role you will be...

PCT Center of Excellence:

• Consolidating Product Change Tracking and creating a PCT Center of excellence for Growth, Customer experience & Service and Corporate business units, streamline non-data product work, ensure reduction in data engineering delivery life cycle, and efficiently manage resources.

• Integrating cross-functional Data Engineering teams for PCT new development, enhancements, and production support data issues (expected L2 support).

Operations Excellence:

• Managing the delivery and DE resource alignment for Growth, CX & Service and CDS data products.

• Supporting on critical and escalated issues (crisis management) as well as classification and prioritization of incidents.

• Managing incidents & problems reported in the production environment.

• Reducing the number of incidents of the production process by implementing permanent fixes for recurring issues.

Data Onboarding Engineering:

• Implementing best practices to ensure adherence to the data industrialization framework (data quality integration).

• Streamlining the data onboarding process workflow to accelerate the data onboarding life cycle and delivery across platforms (GCP, TD, NDL).

• Integrating the data onboarding marketplace pipeline with IPM and PCT intake and data product processes.

Team Management and Development:

• Leading, mentoring, and inspiring a high-performing team of data engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

• Promoting professional development opportunities and knowledge sharing within the team.

• Managing team performance, allocating resources effectively, and ensure timely delivery of projects.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.

• 10 or more years of experience in technical project management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role focused on data engineering or data platforms.

• 2 or more years of experience working in conjunction with Data Architecture teams and thought leadership.

• Proven experience managing projects in GCP environments, with hands-on-knowledge of Big Query and related data services.

• Deep understanding of BigQuery for data warehousing , analytics and optimization as well as GCP services like Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud storage and Cloud functions.

• Familiarity with data pipeline tools and orchestration frameworks (eg. Apache Airflow, Dataform) for managing ETL/ELT processing.

• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer and Cloud Architect Certifications

• Knowledge of data governance and data security best practices.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to influence and drive change.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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