Director, Data Analyst/BI Engineer

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. They are seeking a Director, Data Analyst/BI Engineer to lead the strategic and technical efforts for data and measurement ecosystems, ensuring cohesive and scalable platforms for client work.

Responsibilities:

• Own the multi-quarter data technology roadmap across both BI and MarTech, aligned to the client's business goals
• Act as the senior technical voice in the relationship, translating business questions into measurable data problems and technical realities into language executives can act on
• Serve as the final word on architecture decisions, measurement methodology, and data-quality calls across the practice
• Balance near-term delivery with the long-term discipline of a maintainable, well-governed ecosystem
• Architect the BI stack end to end, covering ingestion, transformation, modeling, and activation, across Snowflake and BigQuery
• Write the Python, design the models, stand up the AWS/GCP/ETL plumbing, and review the team's code
• Own Looker / LookML as the governed semantic layer and primary visualization surface, driving toward trusted self-serve analytics
• Set the practices that keep a warehouse sound: modeling conventions, access governance, cost management, and pipeline observability
• Be the technical authority on the marketing data stack, able to diagnose a consent, tagging, or measurement issue live and direct the web and mobile specialists
• Command the major media platforms and their supporting technology: Google Ads, Meta, SA360, DV360, CM360, alongside tag management (GTM, Tealium), CDPs, and server-side tracking
• Set the strategy for modern signal capture, spanning Consent Mode v2, server-side GTM, Conversions API (CAPI), Enhanced Conversions, Offline Conversion Import, and Customer Match, as well as mobile attribution (MMPs, SDKs, SKAdNetwork / Aggregated Event Measurement)
• Own the compliance posture for data tracking, covering CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and consent frameworks, ensuring measurement holds up in a signal-loss, cookie-deprecation environment built on durable first-party data
• Set the technical standard and elevate the specialists around you
• Represent the practice's data capability to senior client stakeholders
• Serve as the definitive internal and external escalation point for technical, prioritization, and delivery challenges

Requirements:

• 8–10+ years in data engineering, analytics, or marketing technology, including senior leadership of technical work and teams
• A track record as both strategist and practitioner who stays hands-on
• Deep, hands-on experience across Snowflake and BigQuery- modeling, performance, governance, and cost, and strong SQL
• Demonstrated Looker / LookML expertise as a primary visualization and semantic layer
• Strong Python skills, with proven ETL/ELT design and hands-on experience across AWS and Google Cloud Platform
• Subject-matter-level command of the marketing data stack, tag management, CDPs, server-side tracking, CAPI / Enhanced Conversions / Offline Conversion Import, Consent Mode, with the depth to set strategy, direct specialists, and speak with authority in front of clients
• Working command of privacy and consent regulation (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR) and its practical impact on tracking and measurement
• Strong communication skills across executive, client, and engineering audiences
• Agency experience supporting a major global brand is a plus
• Hands-on familiarity with tools like Matillion, dbt, Fivetran, or Airflow is a plus
• Experience with server-side GTM, identity/clean-room work (e.g., LiveRamp), or mobile measurement (AppsFlyer / Adjust / Branch) is a plus