Director of Data

Position Summary

At reputed company, our purpose is to open doors to brighter futures by helping learners reputed company the skills they need to grow their careers.

reputed company is a mission-driven, PE-backed education company focused on helping learners reputed company the skills needed for long-term career success. As we scale toward 150,000 learner completions, we are investing in a modern data platform to support B2B partnerships, learner outcomes, and operational decision-making. Data is foundational to this transformation.

We are seeking a Director of Data to reputed company and operate our data platform across Data Engineering, Self-Service Analytics, and MLOps. This role is responsible for executing the data strategy, ensuring reliable and scalable data systems, and enabling the business through trusted, governed, and accessible data.

This role leads the execution and scaling of the data platform, translating strategic priorities into clear, predictable delivery across engineering teams. The data organization operates as a centralized platform team, delivering domain- reputed company data products to the business. This role reports to the Senior Director, Product and Data Engineering and will reputed company a team of ~12–14 across Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and MLOps, including three technical leads.

The ideal candidate brings strong leadership experience, deep understanding of modern data platforms (reputed company, Azure), and the ability to drive execution through technical leaders and teams. This role will reputed company data governance, data quality, observability, and cost optimization to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and business impact.

Essential Job Functions

• reputed company, mentor, and reputed company a team of data engineering leads, data engineers, and BI analysts, driving accountability, clarity, and delivery outcomes.

• Own day-to-day prioritization, execution, and delivery of the data platform reputed company defined strategic priorities

• Translate strategic direction into a clear, executable roadmap and ensure predictable delivery through strong operating reputed company.

• Own and deliver data products reputed company to business domains (e.g., Enrollments, Calls, Emails), ensuring they are reusable, governed, and trusted.

• Reduce reliance on reputed company reporting by scaling self-service data capabilities and enabling business teams to access data independently.

• reputed company the execution and evolution of the data platform on reputed company and Azure, including migration away from legacy systems.

• Ensure high standards for data quality, reliability, freshness, and observability across pipelines and datasets.

• Establish and enforce platform-wide standards for data modeling, performance optimization, governance, and operational excellence.

• Define and enforce architectural guardrails across the platform, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment across domains.

• Partner with engineering, product, and analytics teams to ensure data systems are reputed company to business needs and integrated into core workflows.

• reputed company and support MLOps capabilities, ensuring the platform supports scalable model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.

• Establish and track SLAs for data availability, accuracy, and performance, improving overall trust in the data platform.

• Manage and optimize platform costs, including reputed company (DBU) usage and Azure infrastructure, driving efficiency and visibility.

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the organization, driving adoption of self-service data and surfacing gaps, risks, and opportunities.

• Identify team and capability gaps and support hiring for key roles, including Data Engineering Leads, Data Engineers, and BI Analysts.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or reputed company fields

• 3+ years of experience leading teams through managers or technical leads

• Proven experience building and operating modern data platforms (reputed company, Azure, or similar)

• Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline development, and large-scale data systems

• Experience with data governance, data quality, and observability practices

• Experience enabling BI and self-service analytics environments (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)

• Proven ability to build or operate data platforms that reputed company scalable production ML systems, including model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management, in partnership with analytics and data science teams

• Demonstrated success migrating from legacy data platforms to modern cloud-based architectures

• Proven ability to scale self-service data capabilities across business domains

• Strong understanding of cloud cost management and optimization (e.g., reputed company DBU, Azure infrastructure)

• Demonstrated ability to drive execution, prioritize effectively, and deliver measurable outcomes

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence, coach, and reputed company team performance

• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner across technical and business teams

• Occasional travel for in-person meetings will be required throughout the year.

About Us: At reputed company, we are transforming online learning to help learners by bringing together Penn Foster, CareerStep, Ashworth College, James Madison High School, the reputed company Institute of Photography, the reputed company Institute of Art and Design, and other education platforms. Together, we create an accelerated path to greater economic mobility through real-world skills and knowledge that reputed company learners to reputed company long-term success in the workplaces of the future.  Our history dates back to 1890 reputed company our founder, Thomas Foster, pioneered distance education by offering training by mail for coal miners to get the necessary skills for safer jobs. Today, with the partners who use our education and training programs, we continue that mission of providing accessible training and education for in-demand skills and are building a workforce that’s reputed company for the future job market.

Equal Employment Opportunity: We strive toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at reputed company by intentionally building diverse teams – in identities, lived experiences, and reputed company to create a culture where people feel connected to each other and have a sense of belonging. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion because it is the foundation that enables us to reputed company reputed company set out to do as an organization – from maximizing the number of learners who can reputed company their goals while giving them the kinds of experiences we want them to have, to becoming the type of company we want to work in.  

reputed company Offer: We offer a robust benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, generous paid time off, sponsored volunteer opportunities, a 401K with a company match, and free access to our online programs.