Director, Data Engineering
The Director of Data Engineering at Hertz will lead the strategy, roadmap, and governance of the enterprise BI and analytics platform ecosystem, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. This leadership role focuses on platform engineering, operations, and enablement to empower business analytics teams to deliver insights quickly and confidently.
Skills required
About this role
A Day in the Life:
The Director, Data Engineer owns the strategy, reliability, and evolution of the enterprise business intelligence and analytics platform ecosystem. This role ensures BI platforms are scalable, secure, cost-efficient, and operationally excellent—enabling business analytics teams to deliver insights quickly and confidently.
This leader focuses on platform engineering, operations, and enablement, and reports to the Sr Director, Data Architecture & Engineering.
The starting salary for this position is $170,000, commensurate with relevant experience.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the strategy, roadmap, and governance of the enterprise BI and analytics platform ecosystem
- Define and maintain platform architecture, standards, and integration best practices
- Evaluate, implement, and optimize BI technologies to support business growth and scalability
- Oversee BI platform deployment, automation, performance, reliability, and disaster recovery
- Drive operational excellence through Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD processes, monitoring, and service management
- Partner with security and governance teams to ensure appropriate access controls, compliance, and data governance standards
- Enable self-service analytics by providing tooling, templates, documentation, and platform support
- Manage platform licensing, vendor relationships, and cost optimization initiatives
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous platform improvement efforts
- Build, develop, and mentor high-performing BI platform and technical services teams
- Establish operating models, performance expectations, and career development pathways for team members
- Communicate platform strategy, health, risks, and roadmap progress to executive stakeholders
- Collaborate across technology, analytics, and business teams to translate platform investments into measurable business outcomes
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-focused service delivery
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field required
- 10+ years of leadership experience in BI, analytics, data platforms, or related technologies
- Deep expertise with modern BI platforms, semantic layers, cloud technologies, and enterprise integrations
- Proven success leading enterprise-scale BI environments and platform teams
- Experience with AI/ML, embedded analytics, multi-platform BI ecosystems, or regulated business environments is a plus
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated success building and developing high-performing teams while driving operational excellence and organizational change
- Strategic, results-oriented thinker with strong problem-solving, decision-making, and execution capabilities
- Adaptable and effective in fast-paced, evolving environments, with a strong sense of accountability and ownership
What You’ll Get:
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Dental & Vision plan options
- Retirement programs, including 401(k) employer matching
- Paid Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program for employees & family
- Educational Reimbursement & Discounts
- Voluntary Insurance Programs - Pet, Legal/Identity Theft, Critical Illness
- Perks & Discounts –Theme Park Tickets, Gym Discounts & more
