Director of Data

 

What You’ll Do

Sol de Janeiro is seeking a Director of Data to build and lead our enterprise data practice. This is a leadership role responsible for establishing the foundational data infrastructure that will power analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision making across the organization.

You will own the full data stack: data engineering and pipelines, the Databricks data lake, business intelligence through DOMO, data analysis capabilities, and data governance. Your primary mission is to build a proper medallion architecture with well-defined Gold tables that serve as the single source of truth for the business, eliminating scattered ETL logic and enabling true self-service analytics.

This role is ideal for a strategic data leader who can envision the end state, build the roadmap to get there, and lead a team through foundational infrastructure work that will take approximately a year to fully realize.

What You'll Do

 

Build the Foundation

• Architect and oversee implementation of a medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) in Databricks
• Define and build Gold tables that serve as the canonical, business-ready data layer
• Eliminate ETL logic from DOMO, moving all transformation upstream into proper data pipelines (final-mile formatting excepted)
• Establish data modeling standards, naming conventions, and documentation practices that enable self-service consumption

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead a team of 4 data professionals including data engineers and analysts, with potential for growth
• Establish clear roles, career paths, and performance expectations
• Build a team culture centered on data quality, documentation, and serving business stakeholders
• Partner with HR on hiring decisions and team composition as the function scales

Operational Excellence

• Own the reliability and performance of all data pipelines and the Databricks platform
• Establish SLAs with business partners for data freshness, quality, and availability
• Create and track success metrics including pipeline reliability, Gold table coverage, data quality scores, and stakeholder satisfaction
• Implement data quality monitoring and alerting to catch issues before they impact downstream consumers

Business Partnership

• Partner with Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Operations to understand their data needs
• Translate business requirements into data models and pipeline specifications
• Enable self-service analytics by building intuitive, well-documented data products
• Serve as the data authority for the organization, establishing trust in a single source of truth

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with the Director of Integrations to ensure seamless data flows from source systems into the data lake
• Coordinate with integration team on data delivery requirements and SLAs
• Support SAP S/4HANA migration by ensuring data architecture is ready for new source system patterns
• Collaborate with Security on data access controls, privacy requirements, and compliance

Strategic Planning

• Develop the multi-year data strategy and roadmap aligned with business prior