Director, Data Analyst/BI Engineer

WHY DEPT®?

We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA.

We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter.

At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build.

THE ROLE:

We are looking for a Director, Data Technology to serve as the strategic and technical anchor for the data and measurement ecosystem behind our client work. This is a builder's leadership role, and you are equal parts data engineering leader and marketing technology expert. You understand how modern data platforms are architected, governed, and scaled; how semantic and analytical layers enable trusted decision-making; and how the infrastructure, automation, and operational processes underneath them run reliably at scale.

You are equally fluent in marketing technology and measurement strategy. You understand how customer interactions become measurable signals, how consent and privacy requirements shape data collection, and how those signals flow through an organization's technology ecosystem to support activation, optimization, and business intelligence.

You'll own the full signal-to-insight lifecycle, from data capture and collection, through identity, consent, and measurement frameworks, into data pipelines, modeling, governance, and ultimately the reporting and analytical experiences that drive business decisions. This role is accountable for ensuring every layer of the ecosystem works together as a cohesive, scalable, and trustworthy platform.

At DEPT®, we take an engineering-first approach to solving business problems with data. As a senior technical leader within the practice, you'll define the strategic direction for data and measurement capabilities while remaining close enough to the work to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and drive delivery with credibility.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Strategic Leadership & Client Partnership

• Data Vision: Own the multi-quarter data technology roadmap across both BI and MarTech, aligned to the client's business goals.
• Trusted Advisor: Act as the senior technical voice in the relationship, translating business questions into measurable data problems and technical realities into language executives can act on.
• Architecture Authority: Serve as the final word on architecture decisions, measurement methodology, and data-quality calls across the practice.
• Pragmatic Delivery: Balance near-term delivery with the long-term discipline of a maintainable, well-governed ecosystem.

Business Intelligence

• Warehouse Ownership: Architect the BI stack end to end, covering ingestion, transformation, modeling, and activation, across Snowflake and BigQuery.
• Hands-On Engineering: Write the Python, design the models, stand up the AWS/GCP/ETL plumbing, and review the team's code.
• Governed Self-Serve: Own Looker / LookML as the governed semantic layer and primary visualization surface, driving toward trusted self-serve analytics.
• Healthy at Scale: Set the practices that keep a warehouse sound: modeling conventions, access governance, cost management, and pipeline observability.

Marketing Technology

• Senior Subject-Matter Expert: Be the technical authority on the marketing data stack, able to diagnose a consent, tagging, or measurement issue live and direct the web and mobile specialists.
• Platform Command: Command the major media platforms and their supporting technology: Google Ads, Meta, SA360, DV360, CM360, alongside tag management (GTM, Tealium), CDPs, and server-side tracking.
• Signal & Measurement Strategy: Set the strategy for modern signal capture, spanning Consent Mode v2, server-side GTM, Conversions API (CAPI), Enhanced Conversions, Offline Conversion Import, and Customer Match, as well as mobile attribution (MMPs, SDKs, SKAdNetwork / Aggregated Event Measurement).
• Privacy by Design: Own the compliance posture for data tracking, covering CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and consent frameworks, ensuring measurement holds up in a signal-loss, cookie-deprecation environment built on dur