About the role

Role Overview

Join Amplify as Director of Data & Analytics Engineering in a strategic and hands-on leadership role. You will lead the development of scalable data platforms, pipelines, and models that help teams make data-informed decisions. You will also build and grow a high-performing team of managers and engineers.

Responsibilities

Lead data platform, pipeline, and model development to enable organization-wide data-driven decision making.
Own and guide architectural decisions, including innovative architectures and technology stack choices.
Lead people and team growth: coaching, mentoring, career development, and building a strong leadership bench.
Partner cross-functionally with data science, AI, product, and engineering teams.
Improve data observability and reliability, proactively monitoring pipeline health and data quality.
Drive multi-year strategy and planning (e.g., annual OKRs and roadmaps) across multiple teams.

Requirements

10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related fields, with hands-on experience in a modern data stack.
ETL/ELT pipeline design and data modeling, including data platform architecture.
Experience with BI tools such as Looker and Tableau.
Strong skills with modern tooling, including dbt, Snowflake, SQL, Python, and Terraform.
People management: 5+ years managing teams, including 3+ years managing managers.
Experience with data observability and reliability tools (e.g., Monte Carlo, dbt tests, Great Expectations).
Excellent communication with non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

Familiarity with agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Snowflake Cortex).
Experience with metadata management tools (e.g., Atlan).
Knowledge of lakehouse data modeling paradigms, including Kimball dimensional modeling and one-big-table (OBT).
Exposure to emerging agentic analytics tools (e.g., natural language querying, text-to-analytics).
Experience in education/ed-tech.
Demonstrated curiosity via open-source contributions, personal projects, or ongoing education.

About Amplify

Amplify is an education technology company focused on helping teams and learners through data-driven products. The role sits within its data and analytics function, partnering across data science, AI, product, and engineering to enable scalable data platforms and analytics engineering.