Director, Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed data engineering and data product organization supporting ABC Fitness Insights, including direct reports and contractor teams across North America, India, Brazil, Europe, and other supported locations.
• Define and evolve ABC Fitness Insights' data architecture strategy, including data models, platform patterns, integration approaches, data marts, data sharing foundations, and governance standards.
• Own delivery across financial data marts, accounting data models, data extractions, the Fitness BI application, canonical/master data models, custom integrations, data sharing foundations, and data governance.
• Set architecture standards for scalable, reliable, secure, and reusable data products across financial, customer, member, operational, and product data domains.
• Drive modernization of legacy and cloud data environments while maintaining stability for business-critical reporting, billing, accounting, and customer-facing workflows.
• Set the roadmap and operating rhythm for data platform reliability, observability, pipeline performance, incident response, and production support.
• Partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, Security, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into scalable reporting, extracts, dashboards, integrations, and data products.
• Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, documentation, observability, security, privacy, and responsible data sharing.
• Build and develop a high-performing team through clear priorities, coaching, accountability, hiring, feedback, and sustainable delivery practices.
• Strengthen ABC's AI-ready data foundation by improving the accuracy, consistency, accessibility, architecture, and governance of data used for analytics, automation, and intelligent product experiences.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience leading data engineering, BI, analytics engineering, data architecture, data platform, or data product teams in a SaaS, technology, payments, or data-intensive business.
• Deep experience designing and leading enterprise data architecture, including data modeling, data marts, integration patterns, cloud data platforms, governance, scalability, security, and performance.
• Strong technical judgment across ETL/ELT, cloud data platforms, BI/reporting, data integrations, data quality, observability, and operational reliability.
• Experience owning customer-facing or business-critical data products, not just internal pipelines or reporting workflows.
• Proven ability to lead globally distributed teams across multiple time zones, with strong operating rhythms, clear communication, and effective cross-region handoffs.
• Experience modernizing legacy data environments while keeping financial, customer, or operational reporting stable and trusted.
• Strong understanding of data governance, including quality, lineage, access controls, documentation, privacy, security, and client-facing data sharing.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Finance, Product, Engineering, customer-facing teams, and senior leaders.
• Strong operating discipline across roadmap planning, prioritization, delivery management, incident response, metrics, and continuous improvement.
• AND IT'S GREAT TO HAVE:
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, Power BI, AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud data environments.
• Experience with financial data marts, accounting data models, billing data, payments data, or high-volume operational reporting.
• Experience with customer-facing BI applications, embedded analytics, DaaS, data sharing, or corporate client reporting.
• Experience building canonical data models, customer/member data models, master data models, data contracts, observability frameworks, or modern data governance programs.
• Fitness, wellness, vertical SaaS, payments, or multi-product platform experience.
• WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE:
• ABC Fitness Insights has a clearer, more scalable data architecture across financial, customer, member, operational, and product data domains.
• Critical financial,

Additional Information

Join ABC Fitness and become part of a culture that's as ambitious as it is authentic. Let's transform the future of fitness-together! Our Values Best Life We believe great work begins with great people. That's why our culture is built on respect, trust, and belonging. We create an inclusive environment where every team member can bring their authentic self to work-because diverse perspectives drive innovation and meaningful impact. Growth Mindset We are doers, thinkers, and dreamers. At ABC Fitness, your growth is our investment. Through continuous learning, mentorship, and professional development opportunities, we empower you to reach new heights-personally and professionally. One Team From day one, you'll be part of a team that collaborates, celebrates, and cares. We move fast, support one another, and have fun along the way. Because when you thrive, we all thrive.

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