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Practice Overview:
Ankura’s Digital Transformation practice helps clients modernize their organizations by leveraging data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes. Our data engineering and data science experts design and develop enterprise data platforms that unify trusted data and provide the scalable foundation for reporting, advanced analytics, automation, and AI.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Director to help lead the design and delivery of cloud-based data platforms across multiple client engagements. This role combines deep technical expertise with delivery ownership, architectural decision-making, and team leadership. The Director will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring data platforms are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business strategy. This role is based in Buenos Aires. This position will be employed via a 3rd party payroll and will be Director level equivalent within Ankura’s structure.
Responsibilities:




Define and own the architecture of cloud-based data platforms across client engagements.
Lead large-scale ETL and data platform implementations using tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, and equivalent technologies.
Establish reference architectures, delivery standards, and engineering best practices.
Oversee ETL orchestration strategies using tools such as Data Factory, Airflow, or enterprise ETL platforms.
Estimate, plan, and govern delivery across multiple projects and workstreams.
Partner with client stakeholders to align data platform design with business objectives.
Mentor, coach, and develop data engineers and technical leads.
Ensure platforms meet expectations for scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
Support pre-sales activities, including solution design and technical estimates.
Qualifications:
8+ years of experience in data engineering, with significant leadership responsibility.
Proven experience des

📌 Director, Enterprise Data Platform (Argentina)
🏢 Ankura
📍 Argentina