Credit Acceptance · 4 months ago
Director, Data Lake and Integration
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$209K/yr - $306K/yr
10+ years expCredit Acceptance is an award-winning company recognized for its workplace culture and success in the used car finance industry. The Director of Data Lake and Integration will provide technical and architectural leadership in developing an enterprise data lake, ensuring data integration and availability to support business priorities and growth.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Develop and drive the long-term vision for enterprise data lake and integration, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities
Formulate and implement data lake and integration strategy across the data space, including but not limited to first-party/third-party data, structured/unstructured data, data modeling across the data ecosystem, and integration both within and outside the company
Oversee the design and development of a scalable enterprise data lake that supports different use cases across the company and enables scalable and self-serve data success
Lead the development and continuous evolution of scalable, robust, and business-aligned enterprise data lake and integration, driving the adoption of modern architecture and design, including cloud-native services, distributed computing, and real-time data processing
Effectively communicate data lake success, strategies, roadmap, and progress to executive leadership and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the firm’s broader vision and goals
Develop insightful business and domain knowledge, translate data into actionable insights that enable the business to drive growth, foster innovation, and improve efficiency
Build a strong engineering organization and foster a solid engineering discipline by leading with examples and mentoring team members
Collaborate with both the data team and cross engineering on technology and architecture strategy and decision
Exemplify technical innovation and contribute to critical system design, implementation, and operation success
Formulate a technology and architecture decision framework that embeds the engineering discipline
Become an expert in the business process domain to better support the business and align technologies with the business outcomes
Work with the engineering leadership team to develop and execute on the company’s technical and business strategy
Conduct impact analysis to proactively identify the impact of a change across multiple applications/systems
Perform technical due diligence and architectural assessments of third-party technologies and solutions
Experiment and test ideas, validate assumptions against needs, reach conclusions, and recommend solutions
Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts so others can easily understand, build, and maintain best-in-class software systems
Debug the critical problems that arise in production and execute effective solutions within the application and across multiple applications/systems
Lead continuous learning and process improvement activities to improve design and overall engineering practices
Grow talent by participating in hiring and mentoring team members
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field of study; or equivalent work experience
Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience
Experience in the leadership role overseeing strategy and implementation of enterprise data lake and integration with demonstrated business success and impact
Expert knowledge of software engineering best practices with experience building an enterprise data lake with modern technology and architecture
Expert understanding and use of modern data technology end-to-end, including but not limited to source system, data integration, data acquisition, data ingestion, data transformation, data aggregation, data governance, business intelligence, data warehouse, data lake, NoSQL, object storage, streaming, etc
Extensive experience with enterprise data modeling and integration with demonstrated success
Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures
Demonstrated success in building a strong engineering organization and attract/recruit/grow/retain talent
Demonstrated success in building a mission-critical enterprise-class data solution that delivers business impact
Demonstrated ability to work with business partners, cross-functional team members, and coach and mentor experienced team members
In-depth experience with building an enterprise big data real-time production system that delivers business success
Experienced in communicating and articulating technology subjects in the context of business, and providing timely and clear communication
Well-versed in delivery mechanisms such as Agile
Preferred
Financial services or FinTech industry experience
Benefits
401(K) match
Adoption assistance
Parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Comprehensive medical/ dental/vision
Many nonstandard benefits that make us a Great Place to Work
Company
Credit Acceptance
Credit Acceptance is an indirect finance company that helps eligible consumers restart financially.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.85B2025-11-13Debt Financing· $500M
2025-02-13Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2024-12-20Post Ipo Debt· $300M
Leadership Team
Kenneth Booth
Chief Executive Officer and President
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