Sr Data Engineering & Analytics Director

McLane is building a cloud‑native lakehouse on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery) as the single source of truth for analytics and AI/ML across a supply‑chain business that manages 50,000+ SKUs for the nation’s leading retailers and restaurants. The Senior Director, Data Engineering & Analytics will lead the end‑to‑end architecture, migration, governance, and team for this effort. This hybrid role requires reporting to the office at least three days a week, so candidates should reside within a 50‑minute radius of Temple, TX or Austin, TX.

What You’ll Do

• Own the data platform roadmap – architect and lead the migration from legacy on‑prem warehousing to a modern GCP/BigQuery lakehouse.
• Build a governed BI architecture in Looker with a certified semantic layer and conversational, self‑service analytics.
• Introduce AI copilots and agentic automation into the engineering practice to raise velocity and reliability.
• Build the AI/ML data foundation – ML‑ready datasets and feature engineering – partnering with data science to scale production models.
• Hire, mentor, and lead a high‑performing data engineering and analytics organization.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years in data engineering or architecture, including 6+ years leading enterprise data platform teams.
• Deep hands‑on expertise with cloud data platforms (GCP/BigQuery preferred; Azure, AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks also acceptable).
• Proven track record shipping a cloud data lakehouse or modern data platform at enterprise scale.
• Experience with modern BI/semantic layers (Looker or Power BI) and governed self‑service reporting.
• Strong DataOps fundamentals and a history of leading legacy‑to‑cloud migrations with executive‑level communication.
• Fit the following attributes: teamwork oriented, organized, problem solver, detailed.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (effective Day 1)
• FSA/HSA options
• Company‑paid life insurance
• Paid time off begins Day 1
• 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days
• Pet insurance
• Maternity/paternity leave
• Employee assistance programs
• Discount programs
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Additional benefits and programs

Schedule

Full‑time, Shift 1st – Day.