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Director of Data Operations

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Aug 24, 2026
This job expires in: 20 days

Job Summary

Driving the operational excellence of data pipelines, the full-time salaried Director of Data Operations will establish a Center of Excellence for data operations, oversee the reliability and quality of production data pipelines on the Snowflake platform, and lead a distributed team to ensure efficiency and automation in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities
  • Establish and manage a data operations Center of Excellence with a tiered support structure to drive efficiencies and automation
  • Own the health and reliability of all data pipelines, defining and measuring SLAs/SLOs and reliability KPIs
  • Lead the Data Reliability Engineering function, implementing best practices for operational data quality and incident management
Required qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; Master's preferred
  • 10+ years in data engineering/data operations, with at least 4 years in a leadership role
  • Deep operational experience with Snowflake in production environments
  • Strong background in orchestration tools and modern DataOps/SRE practices
  • Proven track record in establishing reliability practices and improving pipeline reliability

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