Senior Director, Data Engineering (AWS)

Join phData, a dynamic and innovative leader in the modern data stack. We partner with major cloud data platforms like Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean and dbt to deliver cutting-edge services and solutions. We're committed to helping global enterprises overcome their toughest data challenges.   

phData is a remote-first global company with employees based in the United States, Latin America and India. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity, ownership and trust. Even though we're growing extremely fast, we maintain a casual, exciting work environment. We hire top performers and allow you the autonomy to deliver results.

• 6x Snowflake Partner of the Year (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Fivetran, dbt, Atlation, Matillion Partner of the Year
• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications
• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, etc)
• Recognized as an award-winning workplace in US, India and LATAM

Senior Director, Data Engineering - Lead AWS Solutions Architect – Pre-Sales & Delivery

The Senior Director, Data Engineering is one of the most strategic, high-pressure, and mission-critical roles at phData. If you're seeking a position that challenges your technical expertise, business acumen, and leadership abilities daily—this is it.

In this role, you will function as a CTO-like advisor for phData’s most strategic customers. You will lead customer success, direct technical strategy, drive delivery excellence, and serve as a key stakeholder in growing long-term partnerships and revenue. This position requires a unique blend of hands-on architecture skills, executive presence, client empathy, and entrepreneurial drive.

If you thrive in highly visible, fast-paced roles where the expectations are high and the impact is massive, this is the career-defining opportunity you’ve been looking for.

 

Why This Role Matters

This role is one of the most challenging and high-impact positions at phData. As the Sr. Director, Data Engineering, you will not only be a technical leader but also a business driver, team coach, and trusted partner. You will lead from the front—turning customer ambiguity into clarity, complexity into strategy, and roadblocks into revenue.

If you are energized by solving hard problems, earning trust, and scaling impact in fast-paced environments, we want you on our team.

 

Play a significant role in AWS Platform Architecture - REQUIRES successful experience in Technical Account Leadership expanding services and driving account growth for external customers

 

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure & Security: Design and deploy scalable SageMaker domains to enable secure data sharing across teams and domains. Implement best practices for VPC, IAM, encryption, and compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, etc.).
• Authentication & Authorization: Integrate SSO and AWS Identity Center, manage RBAC, multi-account permissions, and access policies for SageMaker and DataZone.
• Monitoring & Automation: Enable CloudWatch logging, compliance monitoring, audit trails, and automate multi-domain SageMaker deployments using Terraform or alternative solutions.
• Migration & Governance: Lead data migration from Lake Formation to DataZone, align architecture to a federated data mesh, and enforce governance workflows for cross-domain sharing.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Conduct load testing, define service limits, and implement cost optimization strategies with SageMaker Unified and DataZone.

 

Your Impact

Client Strategy & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the executive-level technical leader and primary advisor fo