Director of Data Engineering, Equinix

• Passion for designing and delivering data solutions that enable trust, reuse, scalability, and agility across the enterprise
• Ability to translate complex business and data concepts into actionable, high-quality solutions that drive business value
• Proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade data products in large-scale environments (preferably in data center, cloud infrastructure, or similar domains)
• Strong sense of ownership, with a focus on building architectures and solutions that stand the test of time
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
• 15+ years of experience in Data Engineering / Solution Architecture roles, with at least 5 years in senior/principal level engineering or architecture
• Experience in leading cross-domain data products (Customer360, Product360, Asset360, etc.)
• Experience with data governance frameworks, metadata management, and enterprise data platforms
• Knowledge of data privacy and security frameworks

Desirable

• As Director of Data Engineering – Data Center Assets, you will drive the strategy, design, and delivery of domain-oriented and cross-domain data products, focused around Data Center Assets and Operations
• You will act as a technical and strategic leader, defining best-in-class data product architecture, ensuring scalability, reusability, and governance, and fostering a data product mindset across the enterprise
• Your mission is to build a unified, trusted, and holistic data ecosystem
• You will design the blueprints that break down data silos, creating canonical data models and scalable integration patterns
• By providing expert technical leadership, you will guide the development of platforms that unlock unprecedented insights, drive superior customer experiences, and foster operational excellence
• You are the single point of technical ownership for the architecture and viability of these integrated data platforms
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of data products: from vision, design, and development to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Define and maintain enterprise-level cross-domain data products mainly around Asset 260 and it’s linkage between Customer 360 and Product 360 by integrating data from multiple domains and systems (CRM, ERP, IoT, operational systems)
• Drive alignment between business priorities and data product design to enable self-service analytics and AI/ML initiatives
• Establish and evangelize data product standards (semantic models, metrics, API contracts) and ensure adoption across domains
• Design modern, scalable, and secure data solutions leveraging cloud-native technologies (e.g., GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Ensure alignment with target enterprise architecture, platform capabilities (e.g., ingestion, transformation frameworks, orchestration, CI/CD, DataOps), and data governance
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and business SMEs to design products that support AI/ML use cases, predictive models, and operational analytics
• Mentor and guide engineering teams in building reusable components, data models, and API
• Act as a key interface between platform engineering, domain engineering teams, product owners, and business stakeholders
• Champion a data-as-a-product culture across the enterprise and promote platform enablement through data democratization
• Embed data quality, security, privacy, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC2, GDPR) into data product design
• Ensure traceability, lineage, and auditability of data assets and metrics from raw source to consumption
• Translate complex business requirements from sales, marketing, supply chain, and service into robust, scalable, and secure technical solutions
• Collaborate closely with data governance councils and business data stewards to embed data quality and governance policies directly into the architectural design
• Clearly articulate the technical vision, architectural decisions, and trade-offs to diverse audiences, from C-level executives to developers