M5M5 — Senior Director
Senior Director
Provide strategic leadership for enterprise data engineering. Shape the long-term vision and roadmaps for data infrastructure across the organization.
What this level means
Leads multiple functions or a large department; drives multi-year strategy.
- Scope
- Multiple functions or a large department
- Autonomy
- Owns multi-year strategy for the area
- Complexity
- Org-level trade-offs and investment
- Impact
- Multi-function results
- Decision rights
- Owns investment and org design across functions
- Leadership
- Leads directors and managers
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Shape the long-term vision and roadmaps for data infrastructure
- Drive large initiatives such as enterprise data platforms
- Serve as a key advisor to executive management
- Develop data infrastructure vision
- Lead platform initiatives
- Advise executive management
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Visionary leadership
- Strategic partnership building
- Decision-making
- Enterprise platform development
- Executive advisory
- Enterprise data strategies
- Partnership development
- Decision-making frameworks
- Platform development
- Executive advisory practices
- C-level leadership qualities
- Strategic partnership building
- High-level decision-making
What good looks like
- 20+ years in IT/data roles
- Proven track record of leading digital transformation preferred
Common titles
Senior Director, Data Engineering ManagementData Engineering Management Senior DirectorSenior Director, Data Engineering ManagerData Engineering Manager Senior DirectorSenior Director
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
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