Director, Data Engineering, Enterprise Data Systems

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Boston, MA
Hybrid
7+ Years Experience
eCommerce • Healthtech • Pet • Retail • Pharmaceutical
At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere.
The Role
The Director of Data Engineering at Chewy will lead a global team to deliver data and analytical solutions, influence enterprise data strategy, and mentor staff while ensuring effective collaboration on large-scale cloud applications. This role involves end-to-end ownership of the data engineering and analytics team, driving initiatives, and making data-driven decisions.
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Our Opportunity:

At Chewy, it is our mission to become the most trusted and convenient online destination for pet parents and our partners – vets and service providers – alike.  Our success is measured by the happiness of the people and pets we serve, not simply by the amount of pet supplies we deliver. That’s why we continue to think of outside-the-Chewy-box ways to delight, surprise, and thank our loyal pet lovers!

Chewy is hiring a Director, Data Engineering, for our Enterprise Data Systems (EDS) team. This is a leadership opportunity with exposure across the business, influencing the vision and products for this new and growing line of business. The Director of Enterprise Data Systems (EDS) must have a deep technical background in data and analytics to shape enterprise data strategy and offer insightful data solutions to business partners.

As a technology leader, you will own creating an experience that wows and delights our pet parents and build highly scalable, resilient platforms and shaping the EDS to be a world class organization. You will be involved in high-impact decisions and initiatives undertaken by the company, giving you a front row seat to shape Chewy’s growth!

What you’ll do:

  • Provide strong leadership and vision to drive Enterprise Data Systems team to deliver impactful data and analytical solutions for business and partners.
  • End to end ownership of the data engineering and business intelligence team, including gathering inputs from leadership and partner teams, roadmap planning and prioritization, promoting standard processes, and mentoring and developing your team
  • Lead a global data and analytics team of experienced Data Architects, Software Development Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Business Intelligence (BI) Engineers on multi-functional projects working with senior business leaders on enterprise initiatives.  Recruit, hire, and mentor exceptional data, software, BI and quality engineers
  • Shape the enterprise data and analytics strategy to build an extraordinary cloud-based data and analytical platforms
  • Generate and analyze engineering metrics to inform data driven decisions and participate in planning with product management, engineering management, and technical leads
  • Possess the ability to lead and empower people and encourage teamwork, an ability to communicate optimally with senior management, and a clear vision of what resolves a successful solution for the customer and for the company
  • Effectively collaborate with a diverse, dedicated team building and deploying large scale, cloud native web applications and service platforms

What you'll need:

  • 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering and Analytics field including 5+ years of successful business intelligence or analytics team management experience, including hiring, talent development, performance management, and delivering results
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field
  • Design standard processes for analytical platforms, data engineering, data quality and governance, data science and Machine Learning (ML) methodologies
  • Hands on experience with managing data ecosystem in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets
  • Excellent knowledge of Cloud Data Warehouse, Data Lake principles and reporting. Expertise in data engineering, building data warehouse, data mart and data pipelines
  • Experience gathering business requirements, using industry standard business intelligence tools to extract data, formulate metrics, and build reports
  • Understand end to end data management interactions and dependencies across complex data pipelines and data transformation and how they impact business decisions
  • Proven track record of successful communication of analytical outcomes through written communication, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
  • Experience with implementing data governance and data management standard processes
  • Experience in driving and embracing change and transformation in the organization
  • Cloud experience (AWS preferred), Snowflake, Cloud native services such as Kafka, Airflow, Glue, etc.
  • Experience with technologies such as Tableau, Splunk, Python, Knime, Clover, Alation
  • Position may require travel

Bonus:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience (Computer science, Business administration or related fields)
  • Experience in Ecommerce and fast paces companies
  • Demonstrated practical knowledge in the areas of deep learning, LLM/Generative AI.

Chewy is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact [email protected].


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Boston, MA
20,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

At Chewy, our mission is to be the most trusted and convenient destination for pet parents and partners, everywhere. We view pets and pet parents as family, and are obsessed with meeting their needs and exceeding customer expectations through every interaction. Behind the scenes, our talented teams are made up of innovators, delighters, big-thinkers and of course, passionate pet people—creating a place where you'll be empowered to build, grow and unleash your fullest potential.

Launched in 2011, we offer the personalized service of a neighborhood pet store alongside the convenience and speed of e-commerce. Customers love shopping our wide selection of products of more than 100,000 products (including our Private brands and prescription Rx food and Rx medication products), which we offer at competitive prices, fast 1-2 day shipping and around-the-clock convenience that only e-commerce can offer.

Chewy’s commitment to customer service is the core of our brand, and our customers love us for it. We “WOW” pet parents through 24/7 assistance, advice and encouragement every day of the year. We make pet parenting easy with our convenient Autoship subscription program—which allows our customers to schedule their orders, so they never run out of their pet food, supplies and medication they need.

As an e-commerce company, product innovation drives our operations, and our team is constantly striving to find new and better ways to improve our customers’ experience. From an easy­-to-­navigate website and highly rated mobile apps, to detailed order tracking and personalized “Pet Profile” features, we are transforming the way pet parents shop.

Why Work With Us

We're proud to be one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies of all time.

With growth comes the exciting opportunity to be a part of a world-class organization of engineering, product, and design team members, responsible for driving our latest innovations and designing "out-of-the Chewy box" experiences.

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