Mom's Meals | A Purfoods Company

Director, Data Operations and Platform

Mom's Meals | A Purfoods Company

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: IowaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $164,624 - $214,011 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Define and execute the roadmap for data operations and platform capabilities, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance
  • Establish and enforce data governance standards, lineage, and cataloging using tools like Purview or Unity Catalog
  • Oversee ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers leveraging Azure Data Factory, Databricks notebooks, and dbt models
  • Implement medallion architecture (bronze, silver, gold) for structured data delivery and analytics enablement
  • Drive integration strategy using MuleSoft for application-to-application and real-time data synchronization
  • Ensure reliability, performance, and cost optimization of data pipelines
  • Implement CI/CD and DevOps practices for automated deployment and testing
  • Monitor platform health and enforce service level agreements for data availability and quality
  • Partner with analytics engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
  • Mentor technical teams on best practices in ELT, modular dbt development, and cloud-native architecture

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
  • 8+ years in data engineering/operations, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
  • Proven experience with enterprise data platforms such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure AI/ML, Azure Databricks, and ELT tools such as dbt
  • Strong understanding of MuleSoft for API governance and application integration
  • Expertise in healthcare data modeling techniques (star/snowflake, data vault, lakehouse) and orchestration frameworks
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Azure DevOps), and automated testing
  • Hands-on experience with data governance tools and frameworks
  • Knowledge of compliance standards (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR)
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor across the organization
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts and constraints into enterprise solutions and business value, and vice versa
  • Strong collaborative development experience with ability to troubleshoot complex issues and mentor others on basic git skills and best practices
  • Agile delivery experience
Benefits
  • PTO, holiday pay and holiday of choice
  • 401(k) match
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term disability
  • Health, dental and vision insurance
  • Maternity/paternity leave
  • Health savings account (HSA)
  • Flex spending accounts (FSA) – health and dependent

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
data operationsdata governancedata ingestiondata transformationdata consumptionmedallion architectureCI/CDDevOpsELTdata modeling
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementmentoringcollaborationtroubleshootingtranslating technical conceptsbest practices