Retail, Fashion, Apparel

Director, Customer Data Engineering

Dallas-coppell/vari, CAOnsiteFull TimeDirectorPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

customer data engineering
data integration
metadata management
data quality
data standards
data enrichment
data warehouse
business intelligence
customer data security
data acquisition

Nice to have

Azure
GCP
AWS
data products
data marts
universal semantic layers

Role summary

Gap Inc is seeking a Director, Customer Data Engineering to lead data strategies for comprehensive customer data management. This role focuses on reharmonizing, standardizing, and streamlining enterprise customer data, ensuring a unified view for improved business decision-making and compliance. The Director will collaborate with data governance, product management, and marketing teams, leveraging cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or AWS. Key responsibilities include operationalizing data privacy, leading data integration plans, managing metadata, and driving data quality. The role also involves building and maintaining a strong technical team through effective leadership and development. Retail experience is essential.

About the Role

The Customer Data Engineering Director will implement data strategies that enable Gap Inc to better manage our customer data with a goal to provide a comprehensive view of the customer, improved business decision making through quicker insights and adherence to compliance and privacy needs. This role will report into the Sr. Director of Customer Data Engineering and will be a part of the team responsible for reharmonizing, standardizing, and streamlining enterprise customer data with ownership of the business data layer working in partnership with data governance, data product management and marketing data teams.

What You'll Do

Relevant technology professional experience in Technology, with a concentration in Customer Data Management & Marketing Technology integration
Strong experience in managing customer data for fashion retailers
Strong experience in data engineering, data platforms, data strategy consulting, or equivalent data management experience
Experience in operationalizing data privacy, compliance and governance initiatives
Experience with cloud-based platforms like Azure/GCP/AWS specializing in the related data stack within including consumption patterns like data products, data marts, universal semantic layers
Experience working across global teams spanning multiple time zones and geographies
Ability to collaborate effectively with various functional partners to probe/ask questions, gather required information for analyses, and participate as a value-added cross-functional partner
Experience operating in a fast-paced environment driven by senior leadership requests and evolving business needs
Ability to manage workload with limited guidance; effective managing to expectations and ability to scope/prioritize work with relatively high independence
Retail Experience is a must have
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong analytical, problem solving, and multi-tasking skills
Customer focused and Solutions Oriented mindset

Who You Are

Drive the data integration plan with internal stakeholders, vendors, partners, 3rd party teams
Implements processes for active stewardship of data, including active management of metadata and oversight of data processes and flows
Collaborate with the team to ideate and prototype new data opportunities
Be accountable for the quality of our core data set and make improvements each sprint

Lead the business engagement and agreement on business-wide data standards
Ownership of all data enrichment, maintenance investments
Key driver in data warehouse and business intelligence investment strategy
Customer data evangelist – proactively seek new and improved ways for data to drive more differentiated, dynamic, cross-channel touch point opportunities for Users
Internal expert on customer Data Security and Privacy policies and practices
Business Lead on all data-related acquisition and divestiture activities
Build and maintain a strong technical team through effective recruiting, training, coaching, team building, and succession planning.

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