As a Director of Engineering, you will lead engineering efforts to design and deliver scalable Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and metadata-driven connector frameworks for data-centric use cases. This role is pivotal in driving innovation, operational excellence, and customer-centric outcomes for an advanced data ecosystem. You will oversee a distributed engineering organization, shaping its technical direction and fostering a high-performance engineering culture that delivers transformative solutions for global customers leveraging data-driven insights.
What Impact will you create?
- This role is instrumental in enabling end users to seamlessly integrate, manage, and scale their data workflows across the Atlan platform. By leveraging metadata-driven automation and cutting-edge PaaS capabilities, you will redefine how businesses optimize data pipelines, ensure efficient integration, and unlock operational efficiencies through intelligent data solutions.Your leadership will have far-reaching impact, including:Developing next-generation data integration frameworks to support modern data management challenges.Addressing key challenges in the data connector ecosystem, such as high support volumes, integration gaps, and inefficiencies in managing data flows.Advancing platform capabilities to empower organizations to scale data solutions globally, leveraging low-code/no-code frameworks and metadata automation.
What will you do?
Strategic Vision & Leadership
- Shape and deliver a comprehensive Connector Frameworks ecosystem, emphasizing scalability, automation, and enterprise-grade readiness for diverse data workflows.
- Define the technical strategy for metadata-driven data integration that ensures seamless interoperability across systems and reduces time-to-value for customers.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to craft and execute a multi-year engineering roadmap that aligns with broader business goals and product innovations.
Team Leadership & Talent Development
- Lead a diverse, global engineering team, to deliver impactful solutions.
- Build a strong engineering leadership pipeline, providing mentorship and fostering a growth mindset within the organization.
- Champion diversity, inclusion, and equity to create a collaborative and innovative team culture.
Operational Excellence
- Drive modernization efforts, ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and security, while meeting enterprise-grade performance standards.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices for system design, operational efficiency, and data security.
- Leverage metrics-driven processes to monitor, evaluate, and continuously improve platform performance.
Customer-Centric Innovation
- Address critical customer needs by streamlining data connector onboarding and improving metadata management across the data lifecycle.
- Drive AI-powered solutions to simplify complex integration workflows and automate routine data operations, enhancing customer experiences.
- Act as a trusted partner to customers, ensuring that platform solutions are aligned with real-world data challenges and business outcomes.
What makes you a match?
As an Engineering leader at Atlan, you’ll not only enhance our PaaS offerings but also define the future of connector ecosystems, enabling enterprises to integrate and scale data operations seamlessly. Apply now to drive innovation and create impact in a rapidly evolving Data SaaS landscape!
