Sr. Director of Data Architecture

Job Description:
At Pluralsight, we are an established team of data practitioners supporting decision makers across the company. We use data to improve outcomes for our colleagues, our leadership, our customers, and everyone in the Pluralsight community. In addition, we are a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths.
As a leader in the Data Insights and Analytics team, you will have a direct impact on business outcomes by improving our data and analytics infrastructure. This role is responsible for the architecture of the enterprise data warehouse, the movement of data to and from the data warehouse, and the administration of BI tooling across Pluralsight. By working with analysts, analytics engineers, data scientists, and data quality stewards, you will also find opportunities to increase the reliability of the team's assets, and implement solutions that improve observability in the environment.
Who you're committed to being:

• Strategic problem solver who understands how data helps optimize decision making
• Partner to internal customers who share high-value business objectives
• Authentic leader who owns outcomes and empowers others to succeed
• Creator of reproducible and extensible work
• User of innovative and cost-effective solutions, considering existing and new technology trends

What you'll own:

• Maintaining the data warehouse infrastructure, including database and schema design, role permissions, and performance tuning
• Implementing production data pipelines for analytics across the business
• Administration of BI tooling and enablement for data practitioners, having a deep understanding of their objectives and problems
• Improving observability in the data environment, including uptime, usage, data quality, and data freshness
• Implementing standards for production data flows between the data warehouse and enterprise applications
• Building the company's metrics as source of truth within the data warehouse, and providing accessibility to all teams at Pluralsight

Experience you'll need:

• 8+ years of experience with data warehousing architecture and data modeling methodologies, and 5+ years in leadership
• Proficient in SQL
• Experience with the administration of enterprise data warehouse and data application environments (Snowflake, Tableau, dbt, Fivetran, AWS)
• Experience working with APIs, SSH, SFTP/etc.
• Experience with sophisticated dependency and orchestration requirements between data tools and environments
• Strong capability to manipulate and analyze complex, abundant data from various sources
• Expertise in data curation, data transformation and data visualization
• Experience leading a team responsible for impactful data solutions that represent the volume and variety of data available to a large organization

Working at Pluralsight
Founded in 2004 and trusted by Fortune 500 companies, Pluralsight is the technology skills platform organizations and individuals in 150+ countries count on to innovate faster and create progress for the world.
At Pluralsight, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to enable progress through technology and access to the skills of tomorrow. That technology can make the world a better place. Through the work we do every day, we empower the people who power our world.
And we don't let fear, egos or drama distract us from our mission. Our mission to democratize technology skills is what drives us and our values are at the helm of how we work together. It's our commitment to practicing them day in, day out that enables our performance. We're adults, and we treat each other that way. We have the autonomy to do our jobs, transparency to eliminate office politics and trust each other to do the right thing. We thrive in an environment with creativity around every corner, challenges that keep us on our toes, and peers who inspire us to be the best we can be. We bring different viewpoints, backgrounds and experiences, and united by our mission, we are one.
Be yourself! Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
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