Director, Engineering, Core Data Business Intelligence

Company: Google Inc.
Location: Irvine
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

Minimum qualifications:

• Relevant engineering degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of experience in engineering, including management experience leading engineering organizations.
• Technical experience in scaling systems.
• Experience in recruiting engineering talent, mentoring their teams, and collaborating with senior stakeholders across an organization.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in building highly scalable systems, including data analysis experience.
• Experience in lifecycle data rollouts at scale, promoting product excellence and collaboration.
• Passion for technology and technical depth to uncover root causes of complex technical problems and provide guidance on solving them.
• Track record of delivering on open-ended, ambiguous problems.

About the job

As the Director for Core Data Business Intelligence, you will lead the strategy and evolution of our next generation business intelligence suite for Google. Our Business Intelligence (BI) platform enables self-service data discovery, analysis, exploration, presentation, sharing, pipelining, and augmented analysis. You will also be accountable for leading Google's metadata catalog and ecosystem which aims to make data easier to use, safer, and more helpful. Together these systems serve the business-critical data analysis and management needs of hundreds of teams across Google, including Sales, all major Product Engineering teams, and analyst teams like Google Ads, Search, YouTube Analytics, Google Play Analytics, and Google Cloud.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Own and set the strategy, roadmap, and implementation for BI and metadata, balancing short- and long-term priorities against the business needs.
• Partner closely with both internal peers and client stakeholders to create, align, drive and deliver daring solutions with our clients.
• Lead and enable high delivery of key mission focused objectives and drive delivery of some big bets.
• Lead a team of highly-talented engineers and operate as an inspiring, effective people leader within a growing organization.
• Manage and build the infrastructure for the current BI platform, maintaining the same high quality service provided to products across Google. Work closely with teams across Google to help in building the infrastructure, systems, and solutions that are used throughout Google for our evolving business intelligence and metadata needs.

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