The Director of Data Engineering is a strategic enterprise leader responsible for shaping and executing Mapfre USA’s data vision. This role leads high‐performing teams to ensure data is trusted, high‐quality, well‐governed, and operationally reliable—fueling Mapfre’s transformation into a truly data‐driven insurance organization.
Requirements
- Influences development of overall objectives including long-range goals for the organization.
- Exercises judgment within broadly defined policies and practices.
- Establishes, modifies operating policies and procedures that affect subordinate units.
- Recommends modifications to broad operating policies which may impact projects, operations, and considerable expenditure risk and major portions of operations.
- Operates with a high degree of autonomy under broad strategic direction.
- Insures that team assignments are aligned with enterprise-level goals and involve long-term strategic planning, enterprise-wide collaboration, innovation leadership, combining both strategic and tactical responsibilities.
- Work is reviewed primarily in terms of achievement of strategic data and business outcomes, alignment with organizational vision, and impact across multiple functional areas.
- Responsible for contributing to the vision and direction for Data initiatives in collaboration with senior leadership.
- Lead teams of data engineers, managers and Data Product Managers.
- Serves as a strategic leader with significant influence across business units, drives cultural and capability shifts across the enterprise, and plays a pivotal role in change management, innovation, and capability scaling.
- Ensures alignment of data talent strategy with organizational needs, builds future leadership pipelines, and fosters a high-performance, psychologically safe, and inclusive team environment.
- Develops and administers budgets, schedules, and performance requirements.
- Accountable for solving complex, ambiguous, and enterprise-level problems requiring data-driven solutions.
- Oversees the full lifecycle of data—from ideation to value realization—and ensures outcomes are measurable, governed, and aligned with enterprise objectives.
- Operates at both strategic and tactical levels.
- Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, and influencing skills.
- Ability to coach, direct and develop individuals to achieve individual, departmental and company goals.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Leadership Programs
- Internal Mobility Opportunities
- Flexible Work Options
- Employee Discounts
- Retirement Plans
- Paid Time Off
