Senior Director of Engineering – Horizon Catalog, Collaboration & Marketplace

What You Will Do

• Lead a Mission-Critical Organization: Build, mentor, and inspire a world-class engineering organization including Engineering Directors, Senior Engineering Managers, and Principal Engineers across multiple hubs.

• Bridge Engineering Depth with Product Intuition: Combine world-class distributed systems engineering with sharp product understanding ensuring the capabilities your team builds are technically resilient, economically efficient, and intuitively packaged for the enterprise administrator and data engineer.

• Build Next-Gen Data Quality Systems: Spearhead the architecture for native data quality monitoring, automated data profiling, schema validation, and real-time alerts that catch data corruption or drift before it impacts downstream BI dashboards or AI models.

• Power Enterprise Administration & Control: Architect administrative tooling, tenant management control planes, and centralized policy orchestration that make managing Snowflake across hundreds of accounts and global regions simple and foolproof.

• Scale Collaboration & Marketplace: Lead the platforms behind secure data sharing, zero-copy partner integrations, Data Clean Rooms, and Snowflake Marketplace, the network that lets thousands of organizations share and monetize data, applications, and AI products across clouds and regions.

• Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with Product Management (PM), Design, and Security leaders to translate enterprise customer pain points into high-velocity execution roadmaps.

• Customer & Operational Leadership: Serve as an executive sponsor for tier-1 enterprise customers; champion operational excellence, security-by-design, and 99.99%+ availability across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience in product infrastructure, distributed systems, or enterprise cloud platforms, including 7+ years managing engineering directors, managers, and senior leaders across multi-team organizations.

• Product-Minded Engineering Leadership: Strong technical product acumen: you don't just build infrastructure in a vacuum. You deeply understand customer workflows, the enterprise admin persona, usability, and how technical architecture drives product adoption.

• Distributed Systems at Scale: Strong foundation in cloud-native distributed systems, high-throughput metadata storage, query execution, caching layers, and cross-region replication.

• Organizational Excellence: Proven ability to attract, hire, retain, and develop elite engineering talent; adept at fostering an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture.

• Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical architectures, trade-offs, and product strategies to VP/C-level leaders and enterprise customers.

• Education: B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Data Governance Depth: Prior experience with data governance frameworks, metadata management, automated lineage tracking, data classification (PII), or data masking/privacy controls.

• *Experience building or operating open lakehouse catalog engines (Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris, Unity Catalog, or Hive Metastore).

• **Experience with secure data sharing, privacy-preserving collaboration (data clean rooms), application distribution platforms, or data/app marketplaces and commerce systems.

• **Experience architecting systems deployed natively across multiple public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).