Zoominfo
Senior Director, Data Platform & Engineering
engineeringfull-timeRemote
SALARY
Not listed
WORK TYPE
remote
JOB TYPE
full-time
INDUSTRY
general
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About the role
What You'll Do
Strategic Leadership & Team Development:
- Lead and develop two Director-level managers and their respective teams spanning data platform engineering, data pipeline development, and practitioner enablement.
- Set the multi-quarter roadmap for the Enterprise Data Platform and Engineering organizations, balancing infrastructure modernization, operational stability, security, and enablement priorities.
- Build a high-performance engineering culture grounded in ownership, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Drive headcount planning, organizational design, and career development frameworks that attract and retain top talent across a distributed team.
- Serve as a trusted partner to the VP of Engineering & Innovation, contributing to broader engineering strategy and organizational decisions.
- Establish clear prioritization frameworks to manage competing demands from security, infrastructure modernization, platform stability, and practitioner tooling.
Platform Strategy & Infrastructure Modernization:
- Own the strategic direction for ZoomInfo's core data infrastructure, including Snowflake, Airflow, Fivetran, AWS, and GCP — partnering with the Director of Data Platform on architecture and execution.
- Guide the design and buildout of an Iceberg-based GCS Data Lake as the foundation for scalable, cost-efficient storage, including governance, observability, and ingestion patterns.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure consolidation to GCP, including Airflow 3.x upgrades, service migrations, and deprecation of legacy environments.
- Drive SaaS vendor strategy and cost optimization — evaluating build-vs-buy decisions for ingestion (Fivetran/Airbyte), cost management, and other platform tooling.
- Oversee monorepo consolidation and CI/CD standardization to enable consistent governance and accelerate deployment velocity.
- Ensure the platform team maintains a strong security posture including service account modernization, key rotation, legacy role decommission.
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