Director of Data

The role

The Director of Data will own the data strategy and platform for vehicle and enterprise data. This hands-on leadership role involves setting technical direction, managing a team, and overseeing large-scale data architecture.

What you will do

• Define and drive the data strategy and roadmap across vehicle telemetry, manufacturing, and enterprise data domains.
• Own architecture decisions for large-scale data platforms.
• Review designs and code and set technical standards.
• Recruit, manage, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers and analytics professionals.
• Partner with quality, manufacturing, product, and software engineering teams.
• Establish data governance, quality, and security standards.
• Build and maintain stakeholder-facing reporting on platform health and data quality.
• Evaluate and integrate modern tooling.
• Manage budget, vendor, and tooling decisions for the data organization.

Required qualifications

• 8–10 years of overall industry experience in data engineering or analytics
• 3+ years managing high-volume data engineering or analytics teams
• Hands-on technical depth in building and operating large-scale data systems
• Proficiency in SQL
• Proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with Databricks
• Track record of designing and scaling data architecture for high-volume, high-velocity data
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining data engineering talent
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills
• Experience establishing data governance, quality, and security practices at an organizational level
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Nice to have

• Experience with Spark or equivalent distributed data platforms
• Advanced degree
• Experience in automotive, mobility, IoT, or another industry with high-volume sensor/telemetry data
• Experience integrating or prompting AI/LLM tools into engineering workflows
• Familiarity with dashboard/BI tooling (HEX, Tableau, Power BI, or similar)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual company performance bonus program
• Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health coverage
• Retirement savings
• Time off
• Family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders. They address the challenges of electric vehicles through technology for software-defined vehicles.