Director of Data Engineering

Grüns is a nutrition company focused on making comprehensive, whole-food nutrition convenient through gummies. The Director of Data Engineering will own the company’s data platform and roadmap, improve scalability, reliability, governance, and data quality, and lead a small engineering team while supporting enterprise system integrations and AI-enabled development.

Responsibilities:

• Own the data roadmap and company data model, with a single source of truth for core business data
• Refactor legacy jobs and tech debt so the platform scales with the business
• Keep pipelines resilient so data stays available, accurate, and trusted across the company
• Manage warehouse and infrastructure cost as data volume grows
• Run our intake process and sprint cadence, prioritizing requests by business impact and staying flexible when priorities shift
• Lead and coach a small team through code reviews, feedback, and clear growth paths, and get hands-on when the work needs it
• Connect new enterprise systems, such as ERP, into the warehouse
• Make the team AI-native, using AI agents for development, incident investigation, and data quality

Requirements:

• Has 8+ years in data architecture or data engineering, including 3+ years leading teams
• Has built and scaled cloud data platforms (BigQuery or similar)
• Is strong in SQL, Python, and dbt or a similar modeling framework
• Has deep data modeling experience and starts from business concepts before tables
• Has built data quality, governance, and monitoring practices that teams trust
• Has run sprint-based intake and prioritization for a team serving many stakeholders
• Is comfortable with ELT tools like Fivetran, Orbitrail and enterprise systems
• ERP experience is a plus
• Comes from DTC or CPG (preferred)