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Macy's · 5 hours ago

Director, Data Engineering

Macy's is a storied retail company that has been a part of American culture for over 160 years. The Director, Data Engineering will lead the engineering and operation of enterprise-grade data pipelines, focusing on scalability and reliability, while collaborating with various teams to enhance data capabilities and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Consumer GoodsFashionRetail
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and coach managers and individual contributors, raising the talent bar across the Enterprise Data & Analytics Team and promoting a culture of continuous improvement
Act as a trusted partner to stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business objectives and insights strategy
Maintain, streamline, and enhance enterprise data pipelines and data landscapes supporting priority analytics and data science use cases
Institute processes ensuring data quality, consistency, curation, and the establishment of authoritative “single source of truth” datasets
Conduct and oversee data transformations, cleansing, classification, and “last mile” preparation to enable analytics and modeling at scale
Partner with BI & Data Science teams to understand data sourcing and formatting needs that accelerate usecase development
Collaborate with Technology teams to modernize and futureproof tools, architecture, codebases, and data platforms
Ensure compliance with legal, privacy, and security standards in partnership with Legal, Privacy, and Data Governance teams
Create and foster a community of practice for data and analytics across the enterprise
Drive change management and user adoption of enterprise data repositories and standardized pipelines
Build agility in identifying and remediating data issues to improve reliability and speed
Stay current on emerging trends and Agentic AI technologies in data analytics

Qualification

Data Pipeline AutomationBig Data TechnologiesMetadata & Data ManagementData WarehousingAgentic AI automationPeople LeadershipContinuous ImprovementCommunication Skills

Required

10+ years of experience designing, scaling, and operating enterprise-grade data engineering platforms in big-data environments
3+ years in a People Leader role
Ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex issues and insights to a variety of stakeholders, including non-experts
Passionate about solving customer and business problems
Regularly required to sit, talk, hear; use hands/fingers to touch, handle, and feel
Occasionally required to move about the workplace and reach with hands and arms
Requires close vision
Able to work a flexible schedule based on department and company needs

Preferred

Agentic AI automation within Data Engineering pipelines preferred

Benefits

Merchandise discounts
Performance-based incentives
Annual merit review
Employee Assistance Program with mental health counseling and legal/financial advice
Tuition reimbursement

Company

Macy's is America’s store for life. The largest retail brand of Macy's, Inc.

H1B Sponsorship

Macy's has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (1)
2022 (10)
2021 (26)
2020 (37)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Bobby Amirshahi
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications + Public Affairs
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Michael Krans
VP, Retail Media
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