Director, Analytics

arrow

Nashville / $200000 - $240000 annum

INFO

Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $240000

Location

LOCATION

Nashville

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Director of Analytics (Remote - US)

Are you a hands-on technical leader who has personally built, architected, and shipped production-grade data products? A leading global travel management company is undergoing a major data transformation and looking for a Director of Analytics to own the strategic direction, architecture, and delivery of their global analytics platform.

This is a builder's role. You won't just manage from a distance-you'll lead an exceptional team of analytics engineers , shape the technical architecture from the ground up , and deliver data products used by thousands of clients worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Analytics Platform Strategy & Delivery

  • Define and execute the multi-year roadmap for a global analytics platform serving both internal BI and client-facing reporting.
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of analytics data products, focusing on production quality, reliability, and data lifecycle management.
  • Own the architecture of embedded analytics applications integrated directly into core products for client self-service.

Technical Leadership

  • Serve as the senior authority on warehouse design (Snowflake, Azure DataLake), semantic modeling (LookML, dbt), and BI platforms (Looker, Power BI).
  • Provide hands-on guidance for query performance tuning, pipeline optimization, and cloud cost management across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Champion modern analytics engineering practices, including CI/CD, version control, and infrastructure-as-code.

Team Building & Leadership

  • Build, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of full-stack analytics engineers.
  • Foster an engineering culture grounded in technical excellence, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Establish clear career paths and mentorship opportunities to retain top talent.

Governance & Operations

  • Implement governance frameworks, including RBAC, data lineage, quality monitoring, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, SOC 2, PCI).
  • Establish observability, alerting, and SLAs for data freshness and dashboard performance.

Required Qualifications

Leadership & Experience

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in analytics engineering or data engineering.
  • 5+ years directly managing and growing data engineering or analytics teams.
  • Proven track record of delivering both internal BI tools and client-facing multi-tenant analytics products.

Technical Depth

  • Data Warehousing & Cloud: Deep expertise in Snowflake</strong>; working experience with Azure DataLake/Synapse, BigQuery, or Redshift. Fluency across at least two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Analytics & BI: Hands-on experience with Looker / LookML , as well as frameworks like React or Vue.js for embedded analytics.
  • Data Modeling & Transformation: Expert-level SQL skills , semantic modeling experience , and hands-on experience with dbt.
  • Programming & Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python for data processing and pipeline development , along with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in the travel, hospitality, or logistics industry handling multi-regional data.
  • Experience running multi-tenant analytics platforms for external clients.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes) or operationalizing ML/AI models into analytics workflows.
  • Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Data Science, or a quantitative field.

CONTACT

SIMILAR
JOB RESULTS

4k-Harnham_DA copy
CAN’T FIND THE RIGHT OPPORTUNITY?

STILL
LOOKING?

If you can’t see what you’re looking for right now, send us your CV anyway – we’re always getting fresh new roles through the door.