
Director, Data Operations and Platform
Mom's Meals | A Purfoods Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Iowa • United 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