Director of Data Engineering

Who We Are:

Reformation is a fast-growing mission-based company that is redefining fashion. We make killer clothes that don’t kill the environment.  The Reformation Tech Team is a fully remote, diverse, and fast-growing org that puts a focus on building new tools and skills.  We encourage growth, new ideas, and collaboration.  Whether building new tools, diving into a new technology, working directly with our stakeholders or our tight-knit team provides a culture of success.  Sustainability runs deep at Reformation Tech and that includes a sustainable work-life balance.

Reformation is a fast-growing company that proves fast fashion and sustainability can coexist. We are a future focused organization committed to the belief that the problems facing our planet and society can be solved through innovation, common sense and education. 

Here at Ref, we put people first. We know that you can't innovate and do cool stuff without having everyone on board. So we work to create a culture where everyone feels like they belong and where their voices are truly valued. We build an inclusive culture together, and make a real impact along the way.

Director of Data Engineering

The Director of Data Engineering will help define and lead data engineering, architecture, data quality and data governance at Reformation. You will be designing solutions, writing code, defining standards, and establishing best practices across the company. This hands-on role will work with department leads, external vendors, and engineering to define and realize the data strategy.  You will also mentor and direct a team of data engineers establishing best practices, development process and ensuring quality standards.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage a team of data engineers within Reformation’s technology team
• Apply hands-on subject matter expertise and administer our modern data stack (Fivetran->BigQuery->dbt->Looker).
• Define data modeling standards and foundational best practices in our transformation layer (dbt).
• Ensure data standardization, quality, governance, and provide a single source-of-truth for the various data domains.
• Work with application engineers to understand product changes and proactivity update existing pipelines/ data models. 
• Collaborate with data engineers and application engineers to understand new data sources (when applicable) and integrate necessary pipelines into the current eco system. 
• Create and maintain a robust data dictionary/ catalog that will help guide business analysts and provide visibility into data definitions. 
• Establish data governance processes, policies, and guidelines to maintain the integrity and security of data.
• Create and maintain critical data standards and metadata that allows data to be understood and leveraged as a shared asset.
• Work with data security to ensure access controls are established.

What You’ll Need:

• Minimum of 10 years of data experience working in engineerings capacity
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in managing cloud platforms and applications.
• Demonstrated experience in data modeling, information architecture, analytics, schema evolution, data organization layouts.
• Experience in a retail/ ecommerce business is a plus. 
• Experience working with transactional, temporal, time series, structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, storage optimization and query optimization.
• Experience with designing ETL/ELT systems including both relational and document data sources.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to champion ideas.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize workload

Benefits & Perks:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance for eligible employees
• Paid vacation, sick, holidays & volunteer time-off for eligible employees
• Mission based company + casual and entrepreneurial work environment
• Clothing discount, great teams, VTO, and more!
• 401K with company match

To Apply:

Please submit your resume and a short cover letter telling us about yourself and why you are a great fit for Reformation!

The Reformation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status

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