Director of Data Engineering
Remote
Posted on 3/31/2023
INACTIVE
ezCater

501-1,000 employees

Corporate food solutions platform for ordering, delivery, and management.
Company Overview
ezCater stands as a trusted provider of corporate food solutions, serving 93% of Fortune 500 companies with a platform that streamlines food ordering, payments, budgeting, and reporting. The company also supports restaurants in expanding their catering business, offering customer acquisition to reliable delivery services. With a vast network of over 100,000 restaurants nationwide, 24/7 customer service, and a rewards system, ezCater ensures a diverse range of food options, professional preparation and delivery, and customer satisfaction.

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$439M

Founded

2007

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

24%

2 year growth

79%
Locations
Dorchester, Boston, MA, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Microsoft Azure
Apache Spark
Apache Kafka
AWS
Hadoop
Data Analysis
Snowflake
Google Cloud Platform
CategoriesNew
Data & Analytics
Requirements
  • 10+ years of industry experience working with, designing, and building data products and platforms at scale
  • Experience with cloud based platforms such as AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP
  • 10+ years of experience leading a combination of individual contributors, ranging from entry level to principal data engineers, and managers ranging from Data Engineering Managers to experienced senior leaders
  • Strong technical skills, including experience with real-time streaming (kafka, kinesis), ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling (on Snowflake, Databricks) and data warehousing
  • Experience with big data technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, etc. helping build data lake/mesh
  • Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and business concepts to technical stakeholders
  • A track record of building strong cross-functional relationships and integrating a variety of perspectives with empathy first
Responsibilities
  • Own the technical build of the Data Products and Platform, while driving automation on data platforms and products. You will ensure the data solutions clearly reflect and effectively solve the business problem in question
  • Define and implement best practices and emerging data technologies for data engineering, data integration, data modeling, data governance, and data security to ensure the platform is flexible, scalable, secure, compliant and performant
  • Accountable for the quality of your data platforms and products (availability, reliability, resilience, security, etc.) and adherence to consistent standards for engineering excellence
  • Understand and drive the architecture of data. Clearly communicate quality attributes and risks for data solutions and products to multiple audiences
  • Guide managers, technical leaders, and senior data engineers in carefully considering business goals, trade-offs, quality attributes, cross-cutting concerns, and risks prior to committing to design decisions
  • Responsible for developing and growing the leadership and engineering talent of the data engineering organization
  • Recognized as a champion of ezCater values
  • Responsible for people management duties across engineering teams including: team staffing, retention, goal setting/assessment, organizational culture, performance management and execution on strategic initiatives
  • Responsible for establishing and measuring metrics that track the performance of teams and the organization
  • Stakeholder management: collaborates with Business Leaders, Product, Analytics and DS to understand business goals, translate them to data initiatives, help the team with right prioritization and set a strategic vision for your teams
  • Responsible for the vision for data products and platforms and thought leadership across technology and organization
  • Should proactively research and understand industry trends in data domains
  • Responsible for building an organizational culture that values accountability, ownership, innovation, honesty, and continuous improvement
  • Responsible for establishing and maturing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes in data platforms and improving deployment safety and speed through CI/CD
  • Influential beyond the technology organization. You have a deep network of cross functional peers who value your perspective
  • Per year
  • Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance)