Director of Data & Analytics

The Director of Engineering, Data & Analytics plays a pivotal leadership role in maturing and scaling Convergint Tech's data platform and engineering capabilities. This role drives operational excellence across data engineering, analytics, and BI engineering teams, ensuring consistent, reliable, and high-quality data and analytics products that enable impactful business decisions across the enterprise.

By providing hands-on technical guidance, strong people leadership, and a mindset of continuous improvement, this role helps design and run a high-performing, service-oriented engineering organization. The Director partners closely with the VP of Data & Analytics to shape departmental strategy, refine cross-functional engineering processes, and build a culture rooted in ownership, curiosity, integrity, and outstanding service for both internal and external customers.

The Director of Engineering, Data & Analytics is expected to perform the role in a manner that emulates Convergint's core Values and Beliefs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Engineering Delivery: Oversee day-to-day engineering execution across data pipeline development, data modeling, analytics engineering, and BI engineering. Ensure teams deliver trusted, maintainable, and performant data products that support business objectives.
• Provide Technical Leadership: Offer architectural guidance, participate in technical design reviews, and act as a sounding board for senior ICs. Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and aligned with modern engineering best practices.
• Develop People & Build Leadership Capability: Manage and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs. Provide coaching on performance, communication, prioritization, and decision-making-including modeling and teaching managerial courage for tough conversations.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Instill a culture of experimentation and learning. Implement and iterate on processes that increase clarity, reliability, and efficiency across the engineering organization.
• Co-Design Engineering Processes: Partner with the VP of Engineering to evolve cross-functional processes such as SDLC improvements, operational readiness, on-call structures, incident response practices, and reliability engineering frameworks.
• Enhance Stakeholder Partnership: Partner deeply with business leaders to understand needs, clarify requirements, and align engineering work with strategic priorities. Represent the Data & Analytics engineering organization with clarity, integrity, and service-mindedness.
• Balance Execution & Strategy: Maintain a 70/30 focus on near-term delivery vs. long-term strategic planning. Contribute to long term planning for team growth, platform evolution, capabilities, and technical roadmap.
• Promote a Service-First Mindset: Ensure engineering teams provide excellent service to internal business partners, supporting them in achieving meaningful outcomes for Convergint's customers.

Core Competencies

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to manage managers and lead distributed teams.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business needs into practical engineering solutions.
• Deep alignment with Convergint's Values and Beliefs, particularly ownership, service, integrity, and continuous learning.
• Ability to foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and psychological safety.
• Skilled at partnering cross-functionally, especially with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders.

Technical Skills:

• Strong grounding in software and data engineering fundamentals, including architecture, data modeling, pipeline design, and cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with modern data stack components (e.g., Snowflake, SQLMesh/dbt-like transformation tools, orchestration frameworks, semantic layers, Power BI).
• Ability to perform high-level code and design reviews and guide engineers through technical decision-making.
• Understanding of engineering operations: CI/CD, testing, observability, monitoring, and on-call practices.

Behavioral Skills:

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, especially in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
• High managerial courage with the ability to give direct, compassionate feedback and navigate tough conversations.
• Strong adaptability and resilience in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment.
• Empathy, curiosity, and a growth mindset-sees challenges as opportunities for improvement.

Experience:

• Proven success managing engineering organizations, including managing managers and senior individual contributors.
• Experience leading data engineering, analytics engineering, BI engineering, or similar technical functions.
• Track record of maturing engineering processes, improving operational reliability, and driving continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior business leaders to align engineering outcomes with strategic goals.
• Experience managing and developing distributed, remote teams.

Scope and Impact:

This role has enterprise-wide influence across Convergint Tech and partner business units. The Director ensures that data, analytics, and reporting platforms are reliable, scalable, and high-quality-directly impacting decision-making, operational efficiency, and service delivery. This role also shapes engineering culture, readiness, and capability across the Data & Analytics organization and contributes to long-term technology strategy.

Work Environment:

Remote within the Americas. Travel is expected approximately once every 6 weeks for team collaboration, strategic planning, and workshops.

This role requires regular and predictable attendance.

Performance Metrics:

• Maturation and adoption of improved engineering processes and operational practices.
• Increased stability, reliability, and clarity of data pipelines, models, and analytics products.
• Strong stakeholder satisfaction and trust in Data & Analytics engineering.
• Growth and development of engineering managers and senior ICs.
• Effective partnership with VP of Data & Analytics on cross-functional initiatives.

Company Benefits

Convergint fosters a supportive, accessible, and inclusive environment in which all individuals can realize their maximum potential within the company. We offer a variety of programs and exceptional benefits:

• 10 Company Holidays and Paid Time Off starting at 13 days annually
• Fun & Laughter Day Off
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plan
• Life insurance & Disability Plan
• Wellness Program
• 401K Matching Plan
• Colleague Assistance Program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary and compensation plan
• Vehicle reimbursement plan or company vehicle
• Corporate Social Responsibility Day
• Cell phone reimbursement (if applicable)
• Paid parental leave

This posting is expected to remain open until 12/24/25.

The expected compensation for this position is $220,000, depending on experience.

Please note that this job posting includes salary information for the assigned target market range within the primary geographic region the requisition is posted. If the position is posted in multiple locations or is a remote position, the salary range may vary. Individual pay rates will, of course, vary depending on the job, department, and location, as well as the individual skills, experience, certifications, specific licenses, and education of the applicant.

Convergint is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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