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Nagarro lists this Director Associate Distinguished Engineer - Senior Data Leader opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Associate Distinguished Engineer - Senior Data Leader
Full-time
Service Region: UCC
We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (18000+ experts across 37 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in!
We are looking for a senior data leader who has built enterprise data platforms, master data management and semantic layers at real scale — more than once — and who can sit across the table from client data leadership as a thinking partner in the morning and be in the modelling detail with the delivery team that afternoon.
This is not an advisory role with a delivery team attached. It is a hands-on leadership role with a seat at the strategy table.
Experience & Leadership
15+ years in data, with the last several in senior architecture or data leadership roles
At least two MDM programmes taken to production, with genuine accountability for match, merge and survivorship decisions — not oversight of someone else's. This is the requirement we weight most heavily.
At least three enterprise data platform builds delivered end to end at large, complex organisations — multi-business-unit, multi-region, heterogeneous source estates
Demonstrable experience designing and landing a semantic layer or shared business ontology that survived contact with more than one business unit
A track record of making the case for foundation work to executive stakeholders — and holding that sequencing when the pressure is to jump straight to use cases
Experience in environments where data arrived through acquisition and accretion rather than design
We expect real, current, hands-on depth here — not familiarity.
Snowflake to a deep level — architecture, performance, cost, governance, data sharing
MDM
Reltio in production, or equivalent enterprise MDM (Informatica, Stibo, Tamr) with a clear view on where Reltio fits
Governance & Catalog
Collibra — catalog, lineage, policy, workflow, and how to drive adoption rather than shelfware
Data Quality
Soda, Great Expectations or equivalent, implemented as enforced controls in the pipeline
Cloud
AWS and Google Cloud — hands-on, both, with a view on when each is the right answer
Dimensional and data-vault modelling
dbt
Orchestration
Streaming and batch
The strongest candidates tend to have stories like these.
You have retired something — a legacy warehouse, a duplicate MDM stack, a reporting layer nobody would let go of — and you can explain how you got the organisation to agree.
You have sat in a room with two business owners who defined the same entity differently, and landed a survivorship decision that both could live with.
You can explain the difference between a data catalog and a semantic layer to a CFO, in terms of what each one changes about their week.
You have turned down or deferred a use case because the underlying data was not ready — and were proved right.
Your second domain, second market or second use case was meaningfully faster than your first, and you can say precisely why.
This a hybrid role, 1-2 days in office/weekly
Salary range: $190K- $240K annual total comp (base + bonuses) + Nagarro benefits
Disclaimer: Nagarro is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, or marital status.
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