Senior Director of Data Engineering & Machine Learning, Modus Create
Digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses
Job no longer available
Digital product engineering partner for forward-thinking businesses
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To partner with companies building for tomorrow and leading in the digital age.
Role
Who you are
- We’re seeking a strategic, hands-on leader with a passion for mentoring others, who bridges deep technical expertise with business-driven vision—someone who can shape data and ML strategy, guide clients through transformation, and empower a new generation of data leaders
- Empathetic Leader: 15+ years in data or software engineering roles, with 7+ years leading Data Engineering/ML teams—ideally at scale or in global consulting contexts
- Technical Depth: Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, big data toolchains (Spark, Kafka), data transformation tools (Airflow, dbt), and ML platforms
- Business Savvy: Success in pre-sales, solutioning, and growing data/ML engagements within enterprise or mid-market accounts
- Builder and Mentor: Demonstrated ability to create enablement programs, uplift team capabilities, and grow inclusive, high-performing engineering cultures
- Client-Centric: Deep empathy for client pain points and the ability to craft and deliver impactful, measurable solutions
- Communicator & Collaborator: Excellent across technical, executive, and cross-functional settings, with an ability to successfully navigate diverse cultural differences
What the job involves
- At Modus Create, we empower the world’s most ambitious companies through thoughtful, modern, data-driven digital solutions
- As Senior Director of Data Engineering & Machine Learning, you’ll help shape the future by leading inclusive, collaborative teams that architect and scale data platforms, and deliver intelligent AI/ML-powered products
- Our work drives transformative outcomes across healthcare, finance, life sciences, automotive, and beyond
- As Senior Director, you’ll guide and empower a global, distributed team of Data Engineering and ML practitioners
- You’ll bring deep data and machine learning experience, a consulting mindset, and a strong commitment to improve both our craft and our client outcomes
- This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works cross-functionally with Growth, Operations, and Partnerships to scale our data capabilities
- You'll play a key role in creating a culture where people feel seen, supported, and motivated to do their best work
- Design and oversee architecture for cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, and streaming systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Ensure robust solutions using platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, and Kubernetes
- Define and drive responsible ML strategy, from model development to integration, using platforms like SageMaker, Azure ML, or TensorFlow
- Enable smarter client experiences by embedding ML into applications, automation, and analytics
- Foster a culture of trust, continuous learning, and experimentation by hiring, mentoring, and empowering distributed teams of data and ML engineers
- Define career paths, feedback frameworks, and learning programs grounded in a culture of experimentation,continuous growth, and a sense of belonging at every level
- Develop modular runbooks, tooling standards, and engineering frameworks optimizing for scalability, observability, and security
- Champion collaborative practices like Agile/Lean development, dataOps, MLOps, and CI/CD for data pipelines and models
- Partner with Sales, Partnerships, and Account Teams to find and co-create thoughtful, outcome-driven data & ML engagements
- Translate client needs into solution designs, shareable collateral, and winning proposals and estimates that reflect both technical strength and business empathy
- Serve as a technical leader in pitches, RFPs, and client workshops, establishing Modus as a trusted data, AI, and ML advisor, while building client confidence through clarity and consultative engagement
- Work with product, design, platform, and engineering teams on integrated, end-to-end data solutions
- Translate capabilities into human impact by aligning closely with both client technical and business stakeholders
Our take
Modus Create is a digital transformation firm that delivers digital strategy, product development, platform modernization and digital operations services. Essentially, it works with clients to assess and improve their digital transformation roadmaps so they can better optimize operations and enhance revenue.
The company's comprehensive suite of services includes but is not limited to security auditing, agile product development, cloud migration and business process automation. This all-in-one approach is attractive to enterprise clients and enables Modus Create to serve the likes of Toyota, Sephora and Adidas.
With an established presence in the space, its expected that Modus Create will continue its path of success for the foreseeable future. It has earned a number of industry accolades, and so far proved its staying power as a trusted transformation partner.
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Company
Company HQ
Hunter Mill District, Reston, VA
Leadership
Sharon Lynch
(CEO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 2025, Sharon spent nearly 12 years at Slalom as a GM of Slalom Build North America. She was also a Manager at Accenture for nearly 8 years.
Benjamin Robin
(COO & CFO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 2022, Benjamin spent 7 years at Tweag as CFO and GM. He also served as the Head of Finance, Tax & Administration at EDP Renewables France & Belgium, and as a Finance & Accounting Manager at Salt Mobile.
Kevin McClelland
(CGO)Alongside Modus Create, Kevin is a Visiting Lecturer of Marketing/Management at the University of Washington. Previously, he spent nearly 12 years at Slalom, holding various roles, including Executive Lead of Slalom AI.
Jon Allegre
(CCO)Prior to joining Modus Create in 20245, Jon spent nearly 15 years at Slalom. He joined Slalom in 2010 as a Practice Area Director before moving into the Role of Managing Director in 2019, a role he held until leaving the company in 2025.
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