Data Engineer
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Vice President, Data Engineering, Analytics
Illumina
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Diego • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $265,800 - $398,600 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Set and execute the long-term global Data engineering and analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with business growth objectives, digital transformation, and GIS priorities.
- Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing team of 151 employees and contractors.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CIO and C-suite executives.
- Drive a culture of innovation, accountability, cost discipline, and agility to accelerate business value.
- Oversee a $20M+ annual budget.
- Ensure projects and programs are consistently delivered on time, within budget, and in compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
- Establish global delivery frameworks that balance regional agility with enterprise standardization.
- Align closely with all GIS functions to ensure data engineering and data solutions enable and advance their strategic roadmaps.
- Engage directly with senior executives to demonstrate the strategic value of data and business intelligence investments.
- Establish and enforce enterprise wide data engineering and data governance frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field required; advanced degree (Master’s or MBA) strongly preferred.
- 20+ years of relevant leadership experience
- at least 12+ years in senior executive roles leading large-scale Data engineering, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence functions.
- Demonstrated success managing global teams of 100+ people in highly regulated, complex environments.
- Experience delivering enterprise-level data and engineering solutions that directly drive business growth and transformation.
- Proven expertise with cloud, enterprise data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Prior accountability for significant budgets and resource portfolios in global organizations.
- Ability to work across global time zones and cultures.
- Willingness to travel internationally (anticipated 50%).
Benefits
- access to genomics sequencing
- family planning
- health/dental/vision
- retirement benefits
- paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data engineeringdata warehousingbusiness intelligencecloud platformsanalytics ecosystemsdata governanceregulatory compliancebudget managementstrategic planningdigital transformation
Soft skills
leadershipteam developmentinnovationaccountabilityagilitycommunicationcollaborationstrategic advisorycross-cultural managementproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degreeMBA
