Associate Director, Data Engineering

What We Really Want:

A technically deep data engineering leader who has grown past needing to prove themselves through individual output and is ready to be judged by what their team produces.

You've made architectural decisions that mattered, you've managed engineers and made them better, and you know how to hold a technical conversation with a client without making it feel like a lecture.

8+ years in data engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership or senior technical lead role.

Deep hands-on expertise with GCP, including BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Composer.

Strong Python and SQL skills, with a track record of building and reviewing production-grade pipelines, not just prototypes.

We are looking for a data engineer that will set the direction for how data is built at Brainlabs, not just how it's delivered on a given project.

You'll lead a team of data engineers, own the technical standards the practice works to, and be the person clients and internal stakeholders rely on when the architectural decisions get hard.

Define and own the data engineering capability roadmap for NAMER, setting standards for how pipelines are designed, maintained, and scaled across the practice.

Lead and develop a team of data engineers, providing technical direction, career development support, and hands-on guidance on complex problems.

Architect scalable, production-grade data solutions on GCP, covering the full stack from ingestion and transformation through to warehousing and serving layers in BigQuery.

Own the quality bar for data engineering output across the team, including pipeline reliability, query performance, data quality frameworks, and documentation standards.

Brainlabs is culture-first. You’ve probably heard other companies describe themselves as people, clients, or profit first – but we see people, clients and profit as the building blocks of our ecosystem. Culture powers all three and we know that when the ecosystem is balanced, we all win! That's why the culture we cultivate is a culture of winning together.

To learn more about what it’s like to be a Brainlabber, check out our

culture code.