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# Director, Data Management and Data Platforms

- **Company:** Everforth Apex
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Software as a Service, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), DevOps, Middleware, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, Oracle (Applications), SQL Databases, SQL Server Integration Services, Spring Cloud, Snowflake, Data Lakes, Data Management, Cloud Optimization, Databricks
- **Published:** October 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/7e4b382b-af8e-44c1-a4f6-b2fb6ecac176/director-data-management-and-data-platforms

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field; Master's degree preferred.
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 * Databricks certification (e.g., Data Engineer Professional or Platform Administrator) strongly preferred.
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 * 12+ years of progressive data management experience, including 7+ years managing teams and 3+ years leading managers or a multi-team function.
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 * 3+ years of hands-on and leadership experience with Databricks in a production enterprise environment (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Workflows, SQL warehouses, cost governance). This is the key technical requirement for the role.
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 * Demonstrated experience applying governance/security, data quality, architecture, operational excellence, DevOps, cost management and scalability practices consistently across multiple data platforms.
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 * Experience with Master Data Management concepts and platforms; Precisely Data360 (or comparable MDM such as Informatica, Reltio or Profisee) preferred.
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 * Experience with data lake / lakehouse and cloud data warehouse concepts; familiarity with Snowflake sufficient to lead a platform evaluation.
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 * Experience leading the operations of mission-critical systems and services globally, and supporting remote offices in a large-scale data environment.
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 * Experience managing data from a mix of on-premises, IaaS/SaaS and cloud-native applications.
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 * Experience owning a technology budget and driving measurable cloud cost optimization.
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 * Experience vetting, selecting and managing vendors.
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 * Experience working with and communicating with senior management to align IT roadmaps, strategies and priorities; excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

## Description

The Director, Data Management & Data Platforms owns the full breadth of IT data management at Apex: the established enterprise data environment (SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, SSIS/ETL, middleware and reporting), the Databricks lakehouse that is emerging as our central data product, and the team that operates our Data360 master data management product. The Director is accountable for the health, security, quality, cost and scalability of every data platform in the portfolio, and for setting the multi-year data platform strategy, including evaluation of Snowflake and other technologies for potential future adoption.

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This is a hands-on leadership role. The Director leads a team consisting primarily of offshore vendor resources - currently led day-to-day by manager-level personnel employed by the vendor - and senior engineers, partners with Security, Enterprise Architecture, Application and Business Intelligence teams, and represents the data platform roadmap to senior IT and business leadership. Deep, practical Databricks expertise is the primary technical requirement; the ability to apply consistent disciplines of governance, quality, architecture, operations, DevOps, cost management and scalability across all platforms is the primary leadership requirement.