Director, Data Engineering

As Director, Data Engineering you'll take charge of data across the whole Articore Group: Martech Engineering, Core Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science, each already running with its own manager. Your job is to turn four teams pulling in their own direction into one coherent strategy, one set of standards, and one voice Execs can trust, without stripping away what makes each team work.

You'll partner closely with our Melbourne-based Product Director for Data, and report to our SVP of Engineering.

Here's the real opportunity: every function has built exactly what it needed, locally, and now the group needs someone to build the global picture. Reliable pipelines with real SLAs. A warehouse finally consolidated across four brands instead of four different ways of doing things. A genuine plan to pay down the technical debt sitting underneath all of it. This is architecture at group scale, and you're the one drawing the blueprint.

The job is holding the tension between what the business needs right now and the long-term rationalization that makes everything else possible, without dropping either ball.

Core Responsibilities

You'll partner with Executives and stakeholders across Product, Marketing, and Analytics, owning your organization's roadmap end-to-end across three areas: Delivery, People, and Technology.

Delivery

• Set direction for data technology across the group, coordinating roadmaps across data engineering, analytics engineering, martech, and data science to unlock key business initiatives.
• Own prioritization across OKR-driven initiatives, ad-hoc requests, and platform work — owning intake and planning, and making the case for tradeoffs directly to the executive team.
• Build the architecture behind reliable, business-critical pipelines: SLAs per layer, and technical debt retired to the point teams can trust the data they run the business on.
• Coordinate with adjacent teams, including product and other enginee